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The new Passenger Package, announced on 13 May, is a fundamental shift toward a unified, digital, and legally protected rail network. It moves away from the current, fragmented European system, where thousands of train journeys are disrupted, leaving millions stranded. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The new “single ticket” will allow travellers to combine multiple rail segments, regardless of operator, into one single booking. This ensures transparency protections and full, consistent passenger rights for the entire journey. If delays occur, passengers are protected, with operators required to provide rerouting, assistance, accommodation, and compensation (such as 25 per cent for 60–119-minute delays and 50…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Washington remains ready to mediate in the war between Russia and Ukraine, after Moscow threatened new strikes on Kyiv. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Russia’s warning, including a call for foreign diplomats to flee the Ukrainian capital, marks a fresh escalation in the more than four-year war, with Moscow vowing “systematic” attacks on Kyiv, including on “decision-making centres.” Rubio’s offer came after Russia battered Ukraine over the weekend, including firing its Oreshnik hypersonic missile, and following a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “Every time you see these big strikes from…
Spain’s National Police found jewellery and watches in the safe in former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s office during a search ordered by the National Court as part of the Plus Ultra case. Officers from the UDEF financial crimes unit went to the office, located opposite PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street, accompanied by the Technical Intervention Operations Group (GOIT), specialised in opening safes and hidden access points. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT During the inspection of the office, hard drives, folders and various documents were also seized. Inside the safe they found necklaces, earrings, rings, bracelets and several watches, some of them…
By Euronews with AP Published on 25/05/2026 – 17:26 GMT+2 The head of the World Health Organization has raised the alarm over the speed of the current Ebola outbreak in central Africa, which has so far claimed at least 220 lives. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday, telling an online meeting of the African Union that health workers are “playing catch-up” as the number of suspected cases tops 900. Tedros will tomorrow travel to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in whose Ituri province the current…
For the Minister-President of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, resuming gas supplies from Russia is not fundamentally out of the question. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Once there is peace, we can, should, and must talk about such matters,” Kretschmer told Euronews. “One can only hope that this peace deal or this ceasefire (…), comes as quickly as possible, because every day an incredible number of people are dying there on both sides of the front,” he added. The leading CDU politicians spoke to Euronews during an interview at the official state representation of the Free State of Saxony in Berlin. The conversation touched, among…
Published on 25/05/2026 – 17:35 GMT+2 The repatriated remains of 20th-century Ukrainian military leader Andrii Melnyk and his wife Sofiia Fedak-Melnyk were reburied at the National Military Memorial Cemetery near Kyiv on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The ceremony was attended by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials. The ashes of the key leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and his spouse were exhumed last week in Luxembourg and then transported to Ukraine. “Today we all see that the Ukrainian idea can overcome what once seemed absolutely insurmountable,” Zelenskyy said at the ceremony on Monday. “Now, when we are…
Published on 25/05/2026 – 20:03 GMT+2 Two swimmers died in separate incidents after getting caught in a riptide, prompting French authorities to issue a warning about the strong currents and riptides along the Gironde coastline in southwestern France. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The 56-year-old German woman was swept away and drowned on Sunday off the coast of Lège-Cap-Ferret. Nearby, in Lacanau, a man of 60 died in a separate incident. Since Friday, emergency services in the Gironde department have already rescued 31 people from the water. Local authorities urged beachgoers to exercise “maximum vigilance”. French authorities are warning of riptides, narrow but…
The investigation is moving forward after the death of a 12-year-old boy in Rennes on Sunday late afternoon. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A 16-year-old boy was arrested on Monday morning, and another teenage girl turned herself in to the police shortly afterwards. Both have been taken into custody, according to the city’s public prosecutor. For the time being, how this tragedy unfolded and the link between the three minors remain unclear. The Rennes public prosecutor’s office immediately opened an investigation for the murder of a child under the age of 15, entrusted to the organised and specialised crime division. On site, significant…
By Euronews with AP Published on 25/05/2026 – 18:15 GMT+2 Belarus’ exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya visited Kyiv for the first time on Monday as the Ukrainian capital cleaned up after Russia’s biggest missile attack of the year, while world leaders kept a close eye on how much support the Belarusian government is ready to provide for Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Tikhanovskaya, who has been globally recognised as the de facto opposition leader of Belarus since standing against strongman leader Aleksandr Lukashenko in the country’s 2020 election, began her visit by paying tribute to Maria Zaitseva, a dissident who joined…
A health alert has been issued in Italy’s Lombardy region after two suspected cases of Ebola were detected in the province of Como. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The cases concern a woman from Lurate Caccivio and a man from Bulgarograsso who returned from Uganda in the past 24 hours with other members of their families after spending around three months there as humanitarian aid workers. Both have developed symptoms consistent with the Ebola virus, including high fever, nausea, vomiting and intestinal problems. They were quickly transferred to Milan’s Sacco Hospital, a specialist facility for the management of high-risk infectious diseases, where the…