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At least 15 people were killed and 18 others injured on Wednesday when Lisbon’s iconic Gloria funicular — one of the city’s landmarks and a popular tourist attraction — derailed and crashed, emergency services said. Five of the injured are in serious condition, and a child is among the injured, the National Institute for Medical Emergencies said in a statement. An unknown number of the injured are foreigners, it said. Authorities called it an accident, the worst in the city’s recent history, and it cast a pall over Lisbon’s charm for the millions of foreign tourists who arrive every year.…
US President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve’s governing board has raised alarms among economists and legal experts who see it as the biggest threat to the central bank’s independence in decades. If the White House succeeds in pushing the Fed to slash rates quickly, you might see cheaper borrowing in the very short term—but investors could then expect higher inflation that could drive up longer-term costs like mortgages, car loans and business loans. This is why the fight over the Fed’s independence matters, and keeping politics out helps keep inflation—and borrowing costs—more stable and…
By Euronews with IJF Published on 17/06/2025 – 6:10 GMT+2 Budapest sets the stage for the middleweights on day 4 of the OTP Bank World Judo Championships. At -63kg, Haruka KAJU made her World Championship debut, demonstrating a groundwork masterclass on her way to the final. With only two World Tour appearances leading to two Grand Slam golds, could she continue her perfect unbeaten record here in Budapest? Facing her in the final was Catherine BEAUCHEMIN-PINARD. Already with a World silver to her name, she was determined to walk away with the red backpatch. She too showed impressive ne-waza throughout the…
Arctic sea ice has been melting at a slower rate over the last 20 years, despite human-caused global warming, new research has found. Since satellite records began in the late 1970s, sea ice coverage at the end of summer has halved. Global warming has been shown to be responsible for up to two-thirds of this melting, and the remaining third is down to natural fluctuations in the Earth’s climate systems. With the Arctic warming at nearly four times the global average, more than 10,000 cubic kilometres of sea ice have been lost since the 1980s – an amount that would…
Published on 26/08/2025 – 13:05 GMT+2 Popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots give inconsistent answers to queries about suicide, a new study has found. AI chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all have effective guardrails against high-risk questions related to suicide, but users can get around them by asking medium-risk queries instead, researchers from the nonprofit RAND Corporation found. The chatbots all refused to directly answer very high-risk questions that might encourage self-harm. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude provided appropriate responses to very low-risk questions – such as information on suicide rates by region – 100 per cent of the…
A new night bus network is launching in Europe this autumn, with routes connecting some of the continent’s key tourist destinations. Run by Swiss transportation company Twiliner, the service aims to close “the comfort gap in long-distance travel”. The sleeper bus will begin operations in November 2025, with stops planned across Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. It will give eco-conscious travellers another long-distance transport alternative to short-haul flights. Twiliner claims journeys on their coaches are as sustainable as going by train and save 85 per cent of CO2e emissions compared to flying. It adds that vehicles will run…
Oslo-based Lithuanian chef Airis Zapašnikas has become the first Lithuanian to be awarded the title of best sushi master in the world. He beat 14 other finalists vying for this prestigious accolade. “For me, as a sushi master and also the first Lithuanian with such an achievement, this is of great significance. It is a direct confirmation of my skills. I will say more – for me it is more valuable than awarding my restaurant a Michelin star,” – Zapašnikas said in an interview with the LRT.lt portal. Zapašnikas, who runs a Michelin-starred restaurant in Norway, talked about the immense…
The institution’s board chair is Balázs Orbán, who serves as political director to the Hungarian prime minister. (While the two share a last name, they are not related.) POLITICO reported in 2023 that MCC Brussels Executive Director Frank Füredi got the role after a chance meeting with Balázs Orbán in London and has vowed to use the platform to challenge the “EU mainstream,” including on climate change. MCC Brussels, which describes itself as an autonomous think tank working on issues like migration, foreign policy, culture and environmental policy, has seven staff members who hold passes allowing them to access the…
Published on 01/09/2025 – 17:24 GMT+2 Uncertainty is hanging over the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), a joint project between France, Germany and Spain, that aims to develop a sixth-generation fighter aircraft supported by interconnected drones within a combat cloud. The idea, launched in 2017 and costing at least €100 billion, aims to strengthen European defence. Last week, Reuters reported that the German Defence Ministry accused French fighter jet manufacturer Dassault of blocking the project after its CEO, Eric Trappier, called for greater decision making powers in the project’s next phase. Jacob Ross, a researcher at the German Council on…
Published on 04/09/2025 – 10:24 GMT+2 •Updated 10:32 Now that the United Nations officially recognised the sexual crimes committed by Hamas on and after October 7 and placed Hamas on the UN blacklist of armed groups responsible for systematic rape and sexual violence in conflict, the next logical step is prosecution, a notable Israeli expert writes in an exclusive op-ed for Euronews. “This recognition is not only a diplomatic achievement; it is a direct rebuke to all those who tried to deny, minimise, or obscure these atrocities,” explains Dr Cochav Elkayam-Levy, the founder and chair of the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas against…