Pope Leo arrived in Spain on Saturday for a week-long visit, his first to an EU country outside Italy, where he will inaugurate a new tower in Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia basilica and meet migrants who braved dangerous Atlantic waters to reach Europe. FRANCE 24’s Sarah Morris reports from Madrid.
Continue ReadingOn The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Parental consent will now be mandatory for sex education in Italian schools, under a reform championed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government. It also excludes the subject from […]
Continue ReadingThe Bulgarian singer says her historic victory in Vienna came close to never happening.
Continue ReadingAstronauts aboard the International Space Station were ordered by NASA to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for potential evacuation on Friday as a Russian crew attempts to fix a worsening leak of air on its portion of the orbital laboratory, NASA said. The four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-12 mission on the station – two […]
Continue ReadingAlbania's Prime Minister Edi Rama believes accession to the European Union is the only path forward for his country. "We are fanatics. We are not like the others. We are the fanatics of the EU faith," Rama said on Euronews' flagship programme The Europe Conversation, on the sidelines of the EU–Western Balkans summit in Tivat, […]
Continue ReadingUkraine will begin production of the Belgian 70-mm FZ275 LGR guided missiles, equipped with warheads filled with thousands of steel pellets designed to shoot down drones. Thanks to financial support from the European Union, Thales developed the finished product in record time — just 12 months before its first deployment on the battlefield, reports SVT. […]
Continue Reading“There is growing fatigue with Russia — even among those in the wider world who help you bypass sanctions and keep your economy afloat. After 26 years in power, age is beginning to take its toll. And with time, the fatigue with you will only grow,” wrote Zelenskyy. Putin said he has never rejected a […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 05/06/2026 – 19:01 GMT+2 Russia could attack a NATO country within four years according to western intelligence assessments, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned on Friday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING He made the comments as he pledged his government would publish a long-delayed defense investment plan before next month’s NATO summit. “It is our intelligence […]
Continue ReadingThe European Union must speed up its years-long process of vetting countries before they can join the bloc, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has said. The future enlargement of the 27-state union was a geopolitical “imperative” in a shifting world and would make Europe stronger, said the head of the EU’s executive arm […]
Continue ReadingThe Coțofenești helmet, which dates back to around 450BC, was snatched by an armed gang who broke into the Drents Museum in Assen more than a year ago. Three gold bracelets were also taken in the raid, prompting outrage in Romania and raising questions about security for artefacts on loan to other countries.
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