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First, a scoop: My colleague Vincenzo Genovese reports that US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner called for a radical overhaul of financial support for Gaza while addressing a closed-door meeting of the Palestine Donor Group in Brussels, in which European and Arab delegates pledged a nearly €900-million recovery package. Speaking via video last week, Kushner dismissed the Gaza aid initiatives carried out so far as “designed step by step by NGOs and terrorists”, and called for a fundamental shift in approach to “turn the tide”, according to people familiar with the content of the private talks consulted by Euronews.…
Published on 17/07/2026 – 8:31 GMT+2•Updated 8:34 Japan’s parliament on Friday approved a bill to revise the country’s Imperial House Law, which sets out the line of succession to the Japanese imperial throne. The changes will allow the imperial family to adopt male distant relatives over the age of 15 and for their future sons to become eligible to take the throne. It also enables princesses to keep their royal status after marrying outside of the family. A ban on female emperors remains in place, however, despite the popularity of Emperor Naruhito’s 24-year-old daughter, Princess Aiko, and concerns over the…
By Una Hajdari with AP Published on 17/07/2026 – 8:23 GMT+2 SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket came within a second of blasting off on a test flight Thursday, but some of the engines failed to ignite, triggering a launch abort amid billowing clouds of smoke and vapour. Elon Musk, the company’s founder and CEO, said two engines will be replaced “to be confident of a good flight” before sending Starship from Texas on a space-skimming journey halfway around the world. It will be the 13th flight for Starship, which at 124 metres tall with 33 main engines is the world’s biggest and most powerful…
Published on 17/07/2026 – 8:16 GMT+2 What were you up to when you were nine years old? The odds are you weren’t curating your very own museum exhibition, unlike Anderson Taylor, who has been officially recognised by Guinness World Records as the youngest male museum curator in the world. At just nine years and 340 days old, this dinosaur-loving schoolboy from Cambridge, Illinois, US, opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum on 10 August 2024, being its sole owner and curator. The museum features fossils, minerals, artifacts, natural specimens and educational displays. “When I went to Scotland, I went to the…
Grace Pritchard will be the No.10 director of news, as well as the prime minister’s spokesperson. She became a spokesperson for Burnham during his by-election campaign while on loan from Ed Miliband’s team of special advisers. She was given a permanent job in Team Burnham after impressing during the successful bid to get him back into parliament. John Stevens is staying on as press secretary. The former political journalist — who worked at the Mirror and Daily Mail — knows both officials, and the Lobby of Westminster reporters well. Tom Wells, a civil servant, is expected to stay on as…
Published on 17/07/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2•Updated 8:09 On today’s show: Euronews’ Aadel Haleem brings us the latest from the Middle East after six consecutive days of US strikes and Iranian retaliation, as both sides abandon their June ceasefire understanding and regional tensions continue to rise. Toby Gregory reports from the Horn of Africa, where EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas visited Ethiopia and Djibouti to strengthen the bloc’s security partnerships and support EU naval operations in the Red Sea. Angela Skujins previews the European Commission’s annual Rule of Law Report, assessing democracy, judicial independence and media freedom across the European…
But it won’t help with the tough ongoing negotiations for the next budget cycle from 2028 to 2034. To finance that future €2 trillion cash pot, France is pushing for a tax on U.S. digital giants including Google, but the idea is opposed by Germany, among others. EU vs. Google As part of its annual budget cycle, EU governments and the European Parliament last year struck a broad deal over how to allocate the €192 billion cash pot for 2026. Throughout the year, the Commission is expected to propose changes to the budget to reflect updated spending and revenue estimates.…
Beim deutsch-französischen Ministerrat steht die europäische Verteidigung im Fokus. Nach dem Scheitern von FCAS drängt die Zeit für Kanzler Friedrich Merz und Präsident Emmanuel Macron. Mit Hans von der Burchard blickt Rixa Fürsen auf die sicherheitspolitische Agenda. Es geht um Raketenabwehr und eine bisher undenkbare Kooperation bei der nuklearen Abschreckung vor den Wahlen in Frankreich. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview ist die stellvertretende Grünen-Fraktionschefin Agnieszka Brugger zu Gast. Sie ordnet ein, wie sich ihre Partei zur militärischen und nuklearen Zusammenarbeit mit dem französischen Nachbarn positioniert. Eine POLITICO-Recherche enthüllt vertraulichen Austausch zwischen dem US-State Department und der AfD. Die Amerikaner interessieren sich intensiv für…
Europeans are traveling in huge numbers this summer — but the conflict in the Middle East, volatile fuel prices linked to disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, and a troubled new border system are making journeys more complicated. Sarah Wheaton is joined by POLITICO reporters Ben Munster, Tommaso Lecca and Jordyn Dahl to unpack how Europe avoided the jet fuel crisis that many had feared; whether flight ticket prices could still rise in the coming months; what passengers are owed when things go wrong; and why the EU’s new Entry/Exit System is producing such long queues. Plus, we’d love to…
The British government on Thursday called on FIFA to investigate Argentina after players celebrated their 2-1 World Cup semi-final victory over England by posing with a banner claiming sovereignty over the disputed Falkland Islands. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed calls for FIFA to investigate, according to his spokesperson. “The World Cup might not be ours, but the Falkland Islands definitely are. Self-determination rests with the islanders and our commitment to the Falklands will never waver,” the spokesperson said. Business minister Peter Kyle had earlier also called for an investigation, calling the banner an “egregious violation” of FIFA rules which…