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By Euronews with AP Published on 25/10/2025 – 8:54 GMT+2 Donald Trump departed the White House on Friday night as he set off for Asia, in what will be his first trip to the continent this term. He will be stopping in Malaysia, Japan and South Korea. The US president is expected to work on investment deals and peace efforts before meeting face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping to try to deescalate a trade war. “We have a lot to talk about with President Xi, and he has a lot to talk about with us,” Trump told reporters as he left the White…
The European Union is rushing to find ways to prop up Ukraine’s finances as the war shows no end in sight and the costs mount. The urgency has escalated as the Trump administration made it clear it will be up to Europe to foot the bill for the continent’s security. With the US receding, Europeans are now contemplating an audacious plan to use Russia’s immobilised assets to issue a €140 billion reparations loan to Ukraine, which could help cover the country’s financial and military needs for 2026 and 2027. The plan, however, is facing obstacles. Belgium, which hosts the assets,…
Mount Etna is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. Located on the east coast of Sicily, it erupts multiple times per year – most recently in June this year. While it is somewhat possible to predict eruptions, a new study publishedin Science Advances proposes a new prediction method that analyses earthquake patterns. It could allow for earlier and better preparedness. How to predict volcanoes Scientists currently monitor Mount Etna by looking at seismic, geological, geophysical, and geochemical data, especially how magma moves in the upper crust. From this, they are able to get a sense of whether the volcano…
One person familiar with Friday’s discussion pointed out Surgutneftegas, Putin’s personal company, has not been targeted yet and predicted: “If their [Russia’s] entire oil sphere could be squeezed it would have some chance of bringing Putin to the table.” A senior U.K. official separately added that the U.S. action had been “a really important new step” and it is “always more powerful when nations act together.” The same person close to Friday’s talks said long-range missile capabilities must feature in European and U.S. efforts. “Everyone saw how Putin reacted to the Tomahawks prospect,” they said. “But then Americans backed down…
A few hours earlier, German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche announced that Berlin was lodging a diplomatic protest against China for blocking semiconductor shipments. “We have been hit hard by the chip shortage because the German economy depends on these chips,” she said in Kyiv. In August, Wadephul also noted that China was providing “crucial” support to Russia that enabled President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing war against Ukraine. The foreign minister was originally scheduled to depart for China on Sunday. Wadephul had planned to press Beijing to ease export restrictions on rare earths and semiconductors, he told Reuters on Thursday — and discuss pushing Russia toward…
Making Catalan an official EU language is one of the key promises Sánchez gave to nationalist leader Carles Puigdemont, whose party, Junts, and their seven seats in the Spanish parliament hold the key to Sánchez’s mandate stability, as he needs their votes to reach a majority. Germany was the largest country to oppose the move when EU countries voted on it in May. It’s the latest example of cooperation after a September meeting in Madrid between Merz and Sánchez, who represent Europe’s two biggest political families — the Conservatives and the Social Democrats. At that rare German-Spanish lovefest, they vowed…
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Germany Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Friday postponed a trip to China due to start next week. Beijing’s export controls came up in the talks during Thursday’s meeting of EU leaders, according to two EU officials, with some leaders expressing their concerns. One said the EU’s most powerful trade weapon, the Anti-Coercion Instrument, was mentioned, but didn’t garner much interest around the table. The EU, which imports many of its critical raw materials, almost all rare earths and permanent magnets from China, is caught in the crossfire between Beijing and the Trump administration in the U.S. “A crisis in the…
France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy began his five-year prison sentence on 21 October, after being found guilty of conspiring to fund his 2007 presidential campaign with illicit funds from Libya’s former leader, the late Muammar Gaddafi. In one social media video analysed by Euronews’ verification team, The Cube, an inmate can be seen filming a video through the bars of his prison cell. Pointing across to the other side of a prison courtyard, he says, “Sarko [Sarkozy] is just there in the isolated section, all alone in his cell.” The inmate goes on to shout, “We know everything, we’re going…
Published on 24/10/2025 – 14:19 GMT+2 North Korea has broken ground on a new memorial in Pyongyang dedicated to its soldiers killed fighting alongside Russian troops to push Ukrainian forces out of Kursk, state media reported. The groundbreaking ceremony for the “Memorial Museum of Combat Feats” was attended by North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un and Russia’s ambassador to North Korea Aleksandr Matsegora as well as other embassy officials. Speaking at the event on Thursday, Kim said the memorial “is a sacred sanctuary dedicated to the immortality of true patriots,” state-run news agency KCNA reported on Friday. It is not uncommon…