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Published on 14/08/2026 – 8:11 GMT+2 Fighter jets operating under NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission shot down a “foreign drone” in Latvian airspace on Friday, according to the country’s military. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In a statement, the Latvian armed forces said the drone had entered Latvia “as a result of Russian electromagnetic warfare” and that it was intercepted over the Balvi region in the east of the country. The military has deployed additional air defence units to Latvia’s eastern borders and will continue to monitor its airspace, it said. “As long as Russia’s aggression in Ukraine continues, a recurrence of cases…
Published on 13/08/2026 – 16:16 GMT+2•Updated 16:20 An explosion at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Thursday killed at least one person and injured several others, city police said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Police said the blast at Europe’s biggest port happened late on Thursday morning and that a crime scene has been set up to try to establish what caused it. The explosion happened at a refinery and fuel terminal run by Gunvor Energy in an industrial section of the vast port premises. Dutch broadcaster NOS said that a maintenance team had been working on a section of pipes there. Rotterdam…
Published on 13/08/2026 – 17:15 GMT+2 A bomb hidden in a rubbish bin tore through a residential street in occupied Sevastopol on Thursday morning, killing a Russian serviceman in what Moscow’s security service called a Ukrainian-directed attack, the latest in a series of strikes against military figures tied to the war. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The explosion struck a stairwell area on Stoletovsky Avenue as the victim was walking with a companion, according to witness accounts carried by Russian Telegram channels. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) later confirmed that a Defence Ministry serviceman had been killed, without naming him and said it…
Published on 13/08/2026 – 22:34 GMT+2 Millions of people across Europe, particularly in France, Italy, Spain and the UK, sweltered through a new wave of extreme temperatures on Thursday as the continent’s latest heatwave picked up. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT More than 135 million people were forecast to face temperatures above 35C, with parts of France soaring past 42C and the UK recording the hottest day of the year. Europe is the fastest-warming continent and in some places is ill-equipped to deal with hot weather. Scientists blame ever hotter and more frequent heatwaves on human-caused climate change. Repeat heatwaves and drought have…
Published on 13/08/2026 – 22:06 GMT+2 Two people sustained “serious injuries” and nine more were hurt as a busy commuter train from London derailed on Thursday near the southeast English town of Lewes, emergency services said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “At this stage, we can confirm that two patients have sustained serious injuries and a further nine patients have sustained less serious injuries,” the South East Coast Ambulance Service said in a statement. The ambulance service said there were around 150 passengers on board the train which departed from London Victoria station and veered off the tracks shortly before 4:00 pm local…
Published on 13/08/2026 – 20:54 GMT+2 The Swedish parliament voted to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 14 on Thursday as the right-wing government heads toward a national election, vowing to clamp down on crime. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The government had wanted to lower the age at which children could be sent to prison to 13, but it had to withdraw the proposal in June because it could not secure a majority in parliament. Some 281 lawmakers voted in favour of lowering the age to 14, including the opposition Social Democrats, with 66 voting against. The Scandinavian country…
A fleet of small boats evacuated hundreds of tourists from beaches in northern Greece as a forest fire bore down on two popular resorts. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Water bombing planes and helicopters and almost 150 firefighters battled the flames spreading across the Halkidiki peninsula south of the city of Thessaloniki, the fire service said. Two injured firefighters were taken to hospital, the service added. Within hours of erupting, the fire bore down on homes around the popular resorts of Siviri and Fourka, which are packed with summer tourists. The region is dominated by flammable pine forests. Greece’s civil protection agency sent…
A powerful explosion rocked an ammunition factory near Colleferro, a town about 40 kilometres southeast of Rome, police said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Firefighters and police were at the site and “complex operations” were underway at the Knds Ammo Italy plant which was formerly Simmel Difesa. Videos shared on social media showed a fire at the factory followed by a massive explosion. Italian media reported that there were no casualties, with the AGI news agency saying employees sheltered in secure areas at the facility. The mayor of Colleferro, Giulio Calamita, wrote in a post on Facebook that “the situation is…
The eruption of Mount Etna has been ongoing for seven days, causing disruption to air traffic in Sicily at the height of the summer season. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Catania airport has extended the suspension of flights until 08:00 on 14 August because of volcanic ash. In the meantime, Etna, affectionately nicknamed “Her Majesty” by locals, continues to attract large numbers of visitors. Euronews has gathered the views of experts and local guides on the unusual length of the eruption and on the precautions to take to watch it safely. An exceptionally long eruption According to Salvo Gambino, director of the Etnean…
Poland detained a Russian citizen accused by Warsaw of planning to kill a Ukrainian-American dual citizen in the Polish capital on Moscow’s orders, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Tusk told journalists the suspect had been arrested last Friday. “He was inconvenient from the point of view of the Putin regime and at the last moment…we managed to prevent this execution,” he added. “This is the first situation of its kind in which someone, acting on Russian orders, decided to carry out an attack against an American citizen on the territory of another NATO country,” he added.…