02/17/2026, 09:0302/17/2026, 09:03 After almost eight centuries, the remains of the Catholic Saint Francis of Assisi will be seen in public for the first time. His hometown, the 27,500-inhabitant community of Assisi in central Italy, is expecting several hundred thousand visitors. Pope Leo XIV at the grave of Francis of Assisi.Image: keystone The exhibition starts […]
Continue ReadingMillions of people around the world are celebrating the start of the Lunar New Year, with festivities taking place from Hong Kong to Buenos Aires. The Lunar New Year, which coincides with the first new moon of the lunar calendar, is a 15-day festival held between between 21 January and 20 February every year. In […]
Continue ReadingPeople are marking the Lunar New Year on Tuesday with prayers, fireworks and festivities. The activities ushered in the Year of the Horse, one of 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac, succeeding the Year of the Snake. Fire performers carry a dragon during a molten iron fireworks performance ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations […]
Continue ReadingGood Morning. In the Mared Gwyn with your Tuesday morning newsletter. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The European Commission is sending a representative to attend the first meeting of Trump’s Board of Peace in Washington on Thursday – but is not becoming a member due to persistent concerns about the Board’s scope, governance, and overlap with the United […]
Continue ReadingSix companies linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, are being wound down in the wake of the publication of the Epstein files, Companies House documents show. Sarah was the sole director of all six companies, none of which have much public profile. According to Companies House, an application to strike off each company was […]
Continue ReadingIn her memoirs, Gisèle Pelicot speaks very personally for the first time about the affair that bears her name. It ends on a surprisingly positive note for the victim. “I always set the breakfast table the evening before.” With this sentence begins Gisèle Pelicot’s book “A Hymn to Life”, which will be published this Tuesday […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 17/02/2026 – 8:00 GMT+1 Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union is still importing Russian steel – and not everyone is happy about it. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Next week, MEPs and EU member states will begin negotiations on whether to ban Russian steel outright. What began as a sanctions debate has […]
Continue ReadingEU countries need to “urgently coordinate” to anticipate and mitigate the effects of climate change, such as flooding, severe storms, and heatwaves, a report from the EU’s advisory board on climate change warned on Tuesday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The scientific report from the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC) urges the EU27 to strengthen […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 17/02/2026 – 7:51 GMT+1•Updated 11:08 On today’s show: ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Our Ukraine correspondent Sasha Vakulina fills us in on a new round of Ukraine peace talks starting today in Geneva. Giorgia Orlandi reports from Euronews Italy on the latest developments surrounding Italy’s involvement with Trump’s Board of Peace. Interview with Saurabh Kumar, Indian […]
Continue ReadingVideo: watson/elena maria müller 02/17/2026, 07:4102/17/2026, 07:41 On Sunday, the Civil Defense Authority in the Gaza Strip said that at least eleven Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes. Civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said Israeli aircraft carried out strikes in several areas from dawn to midday. The civil defense puts the total number of deaths […]
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