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U.S. President Donald Trump late Friday said the U.S. had launched air strikes on Kharg Island, targeting only military assets in what he called one of the “most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East.” The island, a 5-mile strip of land, is home to Iran’s most important oil facility, where roughly 90 percent of the country’s crude is processed. Trump said the U.S. attack spared vital oil infrastructure on the island. But “should Iran, or anyone else, do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will…

Published on 14/03/2026 – 9:30 GMT+1 An explosion at a Jewish school in Amsterdam overnight on Saturday damaged its exterior wall. Police and firefighters arrived at the scene quickly and there were no injuries reported. Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema called the incident a “cowardly act of aggression against the Jewish community.” “I understand the fear and anger of Amsterdam’s Jewish community,” Halsema said, adding that “they increasingly face antisemitism and that is unacceptable.” Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten called the attack “horrible” and said “there should be no place for antisemitism in the Netherlands.” The police said they have CCTV…

Norway supplies roughly a third of EU gas imports, though Arctic gas accounts for a much smaller share, around 3 percent of the bloc’s imports. Still, Norwegian leaders argue a moratorium would send the wrong signal while Europe remains dependent on external energy supplies. Norwegian officials, industry groups and unions are lobbying Brussels to drop the idea, arguing Europe will continue to need Norwegian Arctic gas as it phases out Russian supplies. | Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images Ine Eriksen Søreide, the leader of Norway’s Conservative party, said calls to stop Arctic development clash with Europe’s current energy security…

When 42-year-old French officer Arnaud Frion was killed by a drone strike on the Mala Qara Kurdish base near Erbil on Thursday evening, the attack raised the question that goes beyond the incident itself: what does it mean for France’s strategy in the region? Could it push Paris toward greater military involvement in Iraq and the Middle East, or even into the ongoing operation against Iran? Euronews spoke with two French experts for some analysis. Frédéric Encel is a geopolitical scholar specialising in Middle Eastern affairs and Western security alliances. His latest book, “La guerre mondiale n’aura pas lieu” (“There…

The senior official also complained about a stipulation in the law that if the level of deforestation in any country exceeds 70,000 hectares annually, that country cannot be considered “low risk.” That standard “just doesn’t work for us,” they said. “It’s not fair.” Representatives from the European Commission are meeting with members of the delegation on Friday “at technical level” to discuss the law, a spokesperson for the European Commission confirmed to POLITICO. European Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall told reporters in January that there would be no new legislative proposal come April, saying businesses need “predictability.” A 2024 report from the…

Will Viktor Orbán lift his veto on the €90 billion loan for Ukraine before or after Hungarians cast their ballots in the hotly contested elections of 12 April? This is the burning question that officials and diplomats in Brussels are privately debating as the dispute over the Druzhba pipeline takes centre stage on the campaign trail, where opposition leader Péter Magyar has emerged as his most serious challenger to Orbán’s nearly 16 years of uninterrupted power. “Orbán understands that he’s all the time testing the limits of how much the other member states are willing to put up with,” said…

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6:42 GMT+1 Trump says US has ‘totally obliterated’ military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island US President Donald Trump has said the US military has heavily bombed targets on Iran’s Kharg Island, which handles almost all of the country’s crude exports and threatened to hit the island’s oil infrastructure.”The United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island,” Trump said on social media.”I have chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island. However, should Iran, or…

“The European Union’s indifference and acquiescence in the face of U.S. and Israeli aggression, brutalities and atrocities amounts to nothing less than complicity,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said. Mar 12 2 mins read

Universities say they will face a cash crisis if lucrative foreign fee income is cut and not replaced, with one recently published analysis by the Russell Group suggesting the sector would be left £580 million out of pocket. A U.K. official said the home fees demand wasn’t mentioned in the “common understanding” drawn up as a blueprint for talks last year — and that negotiations are about implementing that document. The agreement does not explicitly mention tuition fees and only says the youth scheme should “facilitate the participation of young people from the European Union and the United Kingdom” in…