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One beach on the Italian island of Sardinia will only be accessible to visitors by booking through an app this summer.Crescent-shaped Tuerredda beach has already been capping visitor numbers at 1,100 per day since 2020. The new digital measure, expected to be in place by July, aims to ease the strain on local resources and infrastructure. Many of Sardinia’s spectacular beaches are protected from overtourism with similar restrictions, with transgressors facing fines of up to €3,500.The island’s coastline is renowned for its pristine stretches of sand and is frequently voted as one of the top places in Italy for a…

Three years after flying into the Cannes Film Festival with Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise is returning to the Croisette this year with Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning – his rumoured swansong as superspy Ethan Hunt. The film will screen out of competition at the 78th edition of Cannes on 14 May and the Cannes accredited members of the Euronews Culture team are getting giddy already. Until you get our verdict and hopefully making your own mind up when the film hits theatres on 23 May, you can check out the trailer, which looks mighty promising and seems like Final Reckoning could redeem the…

The Chinese finance ministry announced on Wednesday it will impose another 50 percent tariff on all goods coming from the United States, after Washington’s sweeping 104 percent tariff on Chinese goods took effect. “The U.S.’s practice of escalating tariffs on China is a mistake on top of a mistake, which seriously infringes on China’s legitimate rights and interests,” the ministry said in a statement, adding the move was “adding insult to injury.” The response comes as trade tensions have soared between Beijing and Washington, after Trump said he would tack another 50 percent in his “reciprocal” tariff package. In practice,…

The US has said it is “alarmed” by the arrest of an American academic in Thailand who has been charged with insulting the country’s monarchy. Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University who specialises in the Thai military, could face years in prison if convicted under the country’s strict lèse-majesté laws.Under article 112 of the Southeast Asian nation’s penal code, a single charge of insulting the king, the queen, the heir apparent or the regent carries a maximum 15-year jail sentence. Chambers has also been charged under the Computer Crimes Act, which is punishable by up to five years in…

Another week, another celestial event to marvel at. This weekend, the Moon will appear to take a chunk out of the Sun during a partial eclipse.The eclipse will be visible across Europe on Saturday, as well as western Africa, eastern North America, and northern Asia. For the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun will shrink the most for the northeastern United States, Greenland, and eastern Canada.For even a partial eclipse, you’ll still need to remember to shield your eyes.Here’s what to expect in Europe, when you can see it, and how to watch it safely.What happens during a partial…

The deal clears the way for Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), to be sworn in as Germany’s next chancellor within weeks. The coalition deal comes at a moment of profound uncertainty for Germany and Europe after Trump last week slapped 20 percent tariffs on the EU, a move that could hit Germany’s export-oriented economy particularly hard. It also comes as Merz vows to strengthen his country’s military in response to the threat Putin poses to Europe and the weakening of the transatlantic alliance Germany had long depended on for its defense. These twin shocks — to…

Britain’s defence industry is urging the EU and UK to strike a security pact as early as next month and not to make it conditional on a wider reset, so it can access a new €150 billion European instrument to ramp up defence spending.In a letter addressed to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and European Council chief Antonio Costa, the heads of the UK’s main aerospace, industry and tech associations say a security pact “must be a central deliverable of the upcoming UK-EU summit” to be held in London on 19 May.”Such an…

EU lawmakers and member states remain deadlocked over their choice of the next European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) – the privacy watchdog of the EU institutions – after negotiations on Thursday ended in stalemate, according to a source familiar with the process. The mandate of the current EDPS, Poland’s Wojciech Wiewiórowski, expired in early December, but lawmakers and member states failed to agree on a successor, with each backing different candidates from four contenders shortlisted by the European Commission following hearings in January.The Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, LIBE, voted to appoint long-time Commission official Bruno Gencarelli, from…

Amid a tariff trade war between the UK and the US, new plans have been announced by the British government for Universal to build Europe’s biggest theme park in Bedford. “Today we closed the deal on a multi-billion-pound investment that will see Bedford home to one of the biggest entertainment parks in Europe, firmly putting the county on the global stage,” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said. Universal’s first European park will join its roster of American theme parks in Orlando, Florida; Los Angeles, California; as well as Osaka, Japan; Sentosa, Singapore; and Beijing, China.The £50 billion (€58 billion) plan…

“The probability of adverse events, and the potential severity of their impact, has risen,” the committee said. “A major shift in the nature and predictability of global trading arrangements could harm financial stability by depressing growth,” it added. Trump’s additional “reciprocal” tariffs came into force overnight, following days of market volatility in anticipation. The FPC said markets were orderly, despite the exceptionally high volumes — although noted the sharp fall in prices of global equities, risky corporate credit and commodities, and warned the risk of further “sharp corrections” remains “high.” Still, it said the U.K. banking system is well capitalized…