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Updated: 04/12/2025 – 12:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this December 4th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
The Olympic flame spent Wednesday night at the Parthenon in Athens after a short ceremony atop the Acropolis. Greek rower Stefanos Ntouskos, an Olympic gold medallist, carried the torch through the site and lit a cauldron set beside the ancient temple. The stop marks the final stage before the flame is handed to Milan Cortina Winter Games officials. Italy will host its third Winter Games, but preparations have faced rising costs and delays linked to major construction work. For organisers, the flame’s overnight stay in Athens offers a moment of tradition and calm before the challenges ahead.
“It’s the perfect occasion to celebrate our incredible and strong relationship with the United States of America,” Hidalgo said alongside U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Kushner at a news conference. “As Parisians we are very proud that our city holds a special place in the story of the United States.” Hidalgo also said the Eiffel Tower would light up on the Fourth of July in the colors of the American flag. The announcement was timed to coincide with the 249th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s arrival to France seeking support for the American Revolution. “As Parisians we are very proud that…
Published on 04/12/2025 – 13:38 GMT+1 •Updated 15:50 Russian President Vladimir Putin is “morally responsible” for the death of a British woman who died after spraying herself with the Novichok nerve agent that had been smuggled into the UK by Russian agents sent to assassinate a former spy, an inquiry has concluded. Inquiry chair Lord Hughes of Ombersley said on Thursday the assassination attempt on former agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in March 2018 “must have been authorised at the highest level” by Putin. He called the assassination attempt an “astonishingly reckless act”. “The risk that others beyond the intended…
“The Deep State tried to destroy me but now I’m back and excited to launch this show,” she said. Truss is making the show with American journalist John Solomon’s Just the News network. Episodes will be released each week on both video and audio platforms including YouTube, Rumble and Spotify. The ex-PM said: “People in Britain, America, and across the free world are tired of being talked down to. They’re tired of experts who get everything wrong, elites who refuse to listen, and weak leaders who won’t stand up for Western values.” After losing office, Truss wrote her memoir, which…
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. For many years, the foreign policy establishment in the West lived by a doctrine that became almost sacred. This doctrine was known as linkage, the idea that every issue in the Middle East, every rivalry, every conflict and every diplomatic stalemate somehow ran through Jerusalem. For decades, diplomats, analysts, political commentators and policy makers argued that nothing in the region could progress until the Israel-Palestinian conflict was resolved. They spoke about it as though it were the…
Les soldats ont séparé les villageois selon leur sexe et les ont dépouillés de leur argent et de leurs téléphones. Environ 180 personnes, en majorité des hommes, ont été entassées dans deux conteneurs. Une femme a accouché à côté des portes. Personne n’a reçu de nourriture ou d’eau. Puis, pendant trois mois, les soldats ont emmené la plupart des hommes et les ont exécutés. Ces scènes, décrites dans un rapport sur les droits de l’homme commandé par les Pays-Bas, apportent de nouvelles preuves que des soldats du gouvernement mozambicain assurant la sécurité du site de TotalEnergies sont responsables d’un massacre…
Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, a former Venezuelan military intelligence chief known as “El Pollo” Carvajal, has written to former US President Donald Trump from federal prison, accusing Nicolás Maduro’s government of operating as a “narco-terrorist organisation”. In the letter, Carvajal claimed that during his years leading Venezuela’s military counterintelligence, he witnessed high-ranking officials coordinating drug trafficking operations and establishing alliances with armed groups. According to the text published by The Dallas Express, the former intelligence director alleged collaboration with the FARC, the ELN, Cuban intelligence agents and members of Hezbollah, whom he said played various roles in illicit activities inside…
“Of course, I could have left politics after winning the election and had a comfortable life, or ANO could have appointed someone else as prime minister,” Babiš said Thursday night in a video address to voters. “But I am convinced that you would perceive it as a betrayal,” he added. “That is why I have decided to irrevocably give up the Agrofert company, with which I will no longer have anything to do, I will never own it, I will not have any economic relations with it, and I will not be in any contact with it.” Babiš’ ascension to…
By Agencies Published on 04/12/2025 – 19:23 GMT+1 •Updated 22:27 As political leaders in Washington hailed a “historic” peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda on Thursday, residents of Goma—at the heart of the conflict—said they were still waiting for signs of real change on the ground. The deal, formally endorsed by both presidents months after being initialed by their foreign ministers, is intended to chart a path toward ending years of violence in eastern DR Congo. But in Goma, far removed from the diplomatic celebrations, people say their reality remains unchanged. “If their meeting will bring us…