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A Spanish court banned the brother of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez from holding public office for nine years on Tuesday after convicting him of helping secure a public-sector job tailored for him. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT David Sánchez was convicted by a court in Badajoz in the western Extremadura region of administrative misconduct but was cleared of influence peddling, which could have resulted in a prison sentence. In its ruling, the court said he was guilty as a necessary accomplice in the unlawful creation of the position and imposed a nine-year ban on holding public office and exercising voting rights. The court…

In the last message Lyudmyla Dubnytska received from her husband, he told her he was likely about to be captured by Russian forces. Two days later, she recognised his body in a video on social media of a group of killed Ukrainian troops. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Her partner, Andriy Dubnytsky, is among hundreds of prisoners of war that Kyiv says Russia’s army has executed since it launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. The exact number is unknown, varying according to different Ukrainian and international sources, but Kyiv alleges the executions reveal a deliberate policy by Moscow. Dubnytsky was 25 when he…

Published on 14/07/2026 – 11:17 GMT+2•Updated 11:37 The fire in the Fontainebleau forest in Seine-et-Marne is still not under control. While the main blaze, which began burning late on Sunday afternoon, has already swept through nearly 1,500 hectares (15 square kilometres), a second fire broke out on Monday shortly before 3 pm (CEST) near the town of Fontainebleau and its 15,000 residents, and by 9 am on Tuesday morning had reduced 300 to 400 hectares of land to ashes. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Around 850 firefighters and 200 ground vehicles have been deployed. Given the severity of the situation, four Canadair aircraft,…

Published on 14/07/2026 – 11:32 GMT+2 Ten men suffered injuries during the eighth and final bull run of Spain’s famed San Fermín festival on Tuesday, bringing the total number of daredevils injured during this year’s fiesta to 57. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT An 18-year-old man suffered a gore wound to the thigh and a 46-year-old man was gored in the chest, while the remaining eight were taken to hospital with bruises of varying severity, the Navarre regional government said in a statement. The bulls completed the 848.6-metre (928-yard) course from a holding pen to the city bull ring in two minutes and…

The Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, Velislava Petrova-Chamova, said in exclusive comments to Euronews that the reason her government worked vociferously to remove the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, from the European Commission’s proposed 21st package of sanctions against Russia was to avoid fuelling EU scepticism. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “When you have sanctions that have purely symbolic measure but no economic consequence on Russia, what you are risking is that, in a country – an Eastern Orthodox country, such as Bulgaria – is creating the environment for brewing anti-European rhetoric,” she said. “That’s why we’re not supporting it, and that’s…

France’s Emmanuel Macron will oversee his 10th and final national day parade as president on Tuesday with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy beside him, at the start of a day heavy with significance 10 years after deadly jihadist attacks. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The annual Bastille Day military procession, which marks the 14 July 1789 storming of the Bastille fortress in Paris during the French Revolution, will rev up the crowds before France plays Spain in World Cup semi-finals at the end of the day. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the celebrations in central Paris despite a scorching…

The agreement tackles a problem that has become urgent with Europe’s green transition: how to store growing energy surpluses from intermittent renewable sources, such as wind and solar. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT While the share of renewable energy resources is growing (23 per cent in 2020 to 25.2 per cent in 2024), the bloc’s storage capacity remains too limited to absorb it all. Europe wastes renewable energy surpluses generated during seasonal peaks, forcing it to increase fossil-fuel power generation. The deal expands the EU’s storage capacity to keep extra energy and maintain a reliable energy supply during sudden increases in demand, reduce…

Using fashion to counter tracking and AI surveillance – that is the concept behind Leipzig start-up Urban Privacy. For several years, Nicole Scheller and Daniel Preuß have been developing products such as anti-tracking jackets. They do not make their wearers invisible, but they do make them harder to track. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT On the jackets there is a face-like pattern that confuses AI cameras. The asymmetric, loose cut also makes it harder for the software to assign a gender to the person being filmed. “The main problem is simply that we do not know where the data ends up,” explains designer…

Published on 13/07/2026 – 8:00 GMT+2 European energy ministers signed the EU’s first-ever tripartite agreement on 26 June to expand the bloc’s energy storage capacity and strengthen Europe’s energy security. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Europe wants to reach at least 42.5 per cent of renewable energy production by 2030. Its storage capacity remains insufficient to fully absorb it. The extra energy that Europe cannot store is wasted, forcing it to increase fossil-fuel power generation. This is why expanding storage capacity is important for absorbing surplus energy from renewables and using it when production drops during off-peak periods. It helps to respond rapidly…

EU foreign ministers will discuss proposals on Monday to partially or fully ban trade with Israeli settlements, but the path to implementing any restrictions is fraught with difficulty, with some capitals accusing the European Commission of employing “delay tactics”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT As first reported by Euronews, the Commission last week pitched a paper outlining three options to further restrict EU trade with the settlements, after a majority of EU capitals called for concrete measures in response to escalating violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law and by the EU. While the…