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The United States is reportedly seeking to indict Cuba’s former President Raúl Castro, the 94-year-old brother of late leader Fidel Castro, as Washington ramps up pressure on the communist-run island, US media said on Thursday. An indictment of Castro would be a stunning twist in the deepening crisis in US-Cuba relations, with the island enduring constant power outages prompted by President Donald Trump’s fuel blockade. Trump has repeatedly signalled that he wants to topple the communist government in Cuba. Raul Castro, who succeeded his brother as president of Cuba, oversaw a historic 2015 rapprochement with the United States under Barack…
Alexandra Matthaiou travels to Cannes with her short film Free Eliza (Notes on an Anatomical Imperfection). The film is a co-production between Cyprus, Greece and France and is among nine shorts selected for this year’s programme. Elisa, the heroine, works in a luxury hotel. Due to an anatomical anomaly, she cannot smile. In a world where positivity reigns supreme, this is a serious problem. Elisa will have to defend her difference or adapt to the demands of others. The shooting of Alexandra Matthaiou’s third short film lasted four days and took place in the hotel that inspired her. We met…
Jadallah Masran is 86 years old. Every morning at dawn, he leaves his tent in a displacement camp in eastern Al-Bureij and joins the queue at the nearest bakery. As an older person, he used to have bread brought to him, but now he has to queue for it. “All that comes is pasta, beans and lentils,” Masran told Euronews. “They used to bring bread but stopped completely.” “I’m an old man. Every day at 5:30 in the morning I go stand in line to get a loaf of bread instead of having it delivered to the tent,” he said.…
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US President Donald Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday for a second day of talks, concluding his state visit to China that has so far resulted in a Chinese offer to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but also a warning from Beijing that mishandling Taiwan could spark conflict. On Friday, Trump visited the Zhongnanhai leadership compound next to Beijing’s Forbidden City, where he will have tea and lunch with Xi before travelling back to Washington. “Hopefully our relationship with China will be stronger and better than ever before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that Xi…
Bolton, who was also U.S. ambassador to the United Nations for President George W. Bush, was unimpressed. “He is wrong,” he retorted. “He (Albares) has also spoken about the need for a European Union army — to which all I can say is good luck with that. “It’s not like Europe is filled with strong political leaders at the moment, or that the capability exists that they can handle a number of crises entirely on their own. It was a key Soviet goal during the Cold War to split the NATO alliance, and one reason among many that that didn’t work…
Yes, someone spent more than €25,000 on a gray scooter (a Piaggio MP3 125, to be precise) on which the former French president’s warm buttocks were pressed as he traversed the traffic in Paris. Hollande’s romantic life was a big deal back in 2015 when Closer magazine exposed his affair with the actress. A picture splashed on the cover showed Hollande, who was then in a relationship with journalist Valérie Trierweiler, wearing a rather silly-looking helmet (from an aesthetic standpoint, not a safety one!). The French press went into a frenzy, relishing the salacious detail of a security agent delivering…
With Keir Starmer fighting for his political life after the most perilous week of his premiership, the prime minister and his inner circle have been engaged in a desperate rearguard effort to shore up his position. This week on Westminster Insider, host Patrick Baker lifts the lid on what life is really like inside Number 10 when a Prime Minister and their shrinking band of loyal advisers enter what Westminster knows as “bunker mode.” Boris Johnson’s former aide Ross Kempsell sets out his “rules for the bunker” — such as ensuring you have a highly political Chief Whip and tightly controlling…
Published on 14/05/2026 – 7:57 GMT+2•Updated 15:11 Also on today’s show: Interview with Michael Bloss, member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA). Explainer by Jakub Janas: The US–China AI race — should Europe be worried? Euronews’ Shona Murray on the B9 summit in Bucharest and the latest discussions on European security. Hadja Lahbib, EU Commissioner for Equality, reflects on efforts to tackle conversion therapies in the European Union. When and where to watch Europe Today? You can join Euronews’ chief anchor Méabh Mc Mahon and our EU editor Maria Tadeo live on TV and Euronews’ website and digital platforms every weekday.…
Riga is scrambling to restore public trust and secure its fragile airspace. On Thursday last week, several drones entered Latvian airspace over the picturesque towns of Balvi and Ludza, near the country’s eastern flank and roughly an hour’s drive west of Russia. The Latvian Defence Ministry issued a statement in the hours following the event, stating that two of the unnamed aerial vehicles had crashed while another caused a brief fire at an oil depot. No one was injured, but residents said they only received a text warning them of the drones 60 minutes after the incident occurred. Latvia’s political…