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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have set the internet ablaze with news of their engagement, and all eyes have been on the ring.  According to US reports, Kelce worked with New York designer Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry to design the ring and since the news of the engagement broke, the designer’s website has essentially sold out.  That’s Swiftie power for you, and just one day after the public announcement, the pop superstar’s ring has already cemented its legacy in pop culture.   Here are Euronews Culture’s picks of the rings Taylor’s sparkler joins… Marilyn Monroe’s engagement rings Marilyn Monroe wore two…

“We are living in a critical moment in our national history,” Bayrou said. “Our heritage, the landscapes we have inherited, and the cultural wealth of our country, are under threat. Every business and every family is threatened by the decline of our public finances.” Bayrou on Monday announced he would hold a confidence vote on Sept. 8 to seek parliament’s approval to forge ahead with his slimmed down budget for next year. The spending plans are designed to rein in the budget deficit and assuage French creditors, financial institutions and ratings agencies concerned by the country’s unsustainable levels of public spending. Opposition lawmakers, however,…

Despite many unanswered questions, discussions around security guarantees for Kyiv picked up steam in the past weeks, following Trump’s Aug. 15 Alaska meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.  “The U.S. president’s very strong desire to reach a peace agreement is bringing new momentum,” Burkhard said, speaking one day after flying back from Washington for military talks. After a White House gathering with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, France’s Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Friedrich Merz and Meloni, among others, the Trump administration even signaled openness to contribute to security guarantees. That could reportedly include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets, as well as command and…

In an upgrade from its first estimate, the Commerce Department said Thursday that US gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — expanded at a 3.3% annual pace from April through June after shrinking 0.5% in the first three months of 2025. The department had initially estimated second-quarter growth at 3%. The first-quarter GDP drop, the first retreat of the US economy in three years, was mainly caused by a surge in imports — which are subtracted from GDP — as businesses scrambled to bring in foreign goods ahead of Trump’s tariffs. That trend reversed as…

“I think part of the challenge that we’ve identified is taking an operational concept demonstrator, which we’ve been involved with in defense, and bringing that into core [military programs],” a representative from KX, a software company based in Northern Ireland, said. “[It’s] the valley of death or the cup of opportunity, as I call it — and nobody seems to be drinking from that cup,” the representative said. “A lot of attention goes to the SMEs [small and medium-sized enterprises] and the concept demonstration, and the primes get a huge amount of attention at the other end of the scale,…

Inside the city, an estimated 260,000 civilians, including 130,000 children, remain trapped in dire conditions after more than 16 months cut off from aid supplies. The toll on children has been described as catastrophic, with over 1,100 grave violations verified since the siege began in April 2024. More than 1,000 children have been killed or maimed in their homes, in camps, or marketplaces. At least 23 have suffered sexual violence, while others were abducted or recruited by armed groups. Reports this week cited seven child deaths in an attack on Abu Shouk displacement camp. UNICEF is urging immediate humanitarian access…

Hungary will impose sanctions on the Ukrainian military officer behind an attack on a key oil pipeline feeding the country, Budapest’s top envoy said Thursday, marking the latest step in an escalating feud between the two countries over Russian energy supplies. Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said the commander would be banned from entering the country and the “entire Schengen area” after Ukrainian drones and rockets last week hit the Druzhba pipeline in Russia, which supplies over half of Budapest’s oil imports. The officer was later confirmed as Robert Brovdi, a Hungarian-origin commander who heads the Unmanned Systems Forces in…

Published on 28/08/2025 – 13:39 GMT+2 NATO European allies and Canada should collectively reach the alliance’s 2% of GDP spending target for the first time this year, figures released on Thursday show, as they gear up to boost investments to their new 5% target. Figures unveiled by the military alliance show that all allies are finally projected to meet the target more than a decade after it was pledged at a summit in Wales with Albania, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain all expected to just about scrape past the mandated threshold for the…

The suspected assailant in a Minnesota school shooting that left two children dead and 17 people injured on Wednesday has been named as Robin Westman. The 23-year-old, who is not known to have a criminal history, is alleged to have opened fire with a rifle at Annunciation Catholic School, just days after the start of term. Two children, aged 8 and 10, died in the shooting, which took place while morning Mass was being held. Of the 17 people injured, 14 were children between the ages of 6 and 15. The other three were parishioners in their 80s, officials said.…

But despite a flurry of diplomatic activity in recent days, including a meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the Russian leader has shown little willingness to abandon his attacks against Ukraine. Overnight, Russian forces pummeled Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles, killing at least 10 civilians and with one strike hitting an EU delegation building. Commission spokesperson Arianna Podestà said Thursday: “The attacks [on the EU delegation building] are completely unacceptable. In no way will they shake our support for Ukraine.” She added that no diplomatic staff had been injured and that they would remain in Ukraine despite the…