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Published on 16/08/2026 – 9:24 GMT+2 Moroccan security forces on Saturday say they have prevented hundreds of people from crossing into Ceuta. Reports say the group, mostly originating from sub-Saharan Africa, had been hiding on the outskirts of Fnideq, known in Spanish as Castillejos. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Moroccan media says 294 people were arrested, 46 of them Moroccan and the rest from sub-Saharan Africa. According to Moroccan security sources cited by the EFE news agency (source in Spanish), the incident took place in a mountainous area to the south-west of Ceuta, where officers moved in to disperse the group. The same…
Published on 15/08/2026 – 12:39 GMT+2•Updated 12:44 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Saturday that Ukrainian forces had struck the Progress Rocket and Space Centre” in Russia’s Samara region, a facility involved in the manufacturing and operation of space launch vehicles. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In a post on X, Zelenskyy said Ukraine hit the centre with FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles, describing it as one of Russian space agency Roscosmos’ “key enterprises” and saying it was involved in “electronics production”. Additional strikes were carried out on Savasleyka air base in the Nizhny Novgorod region – which the Ukrainian leader said housed aircraft…
Published on 14/08/2026 – 21:41 GMT+2 The EU pushed back at renewed trade pressure from the United States on Friday, as Washington said the bloc was enabling Chinese evasion of US tariffs and stepped up calls for it to roll back flagship green rules on businesses. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Washington’s ambassador to the EU, Andrew Puzder, called on the bloc to “align” the provisions of two landmark new laws on environmental and human rights supply chain standards with the EU-US trade deal struck last year. “Now it’s time for the EU to deliver,” Puzder posted on X, along with a US…
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Friday that Britain must face up to the changing climate and accelerate its move to clean energy as he visited a town where a wildfire gutted homes. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In Stourbridge near the UK’s second largest city of Birmingham, smoke rose from smouldering ruins of several roofless houses as firefighters sprayed water on the wreckage Friday. The West Midlands Fire Service said 19 houses were completely destroyed and 18 others damaged in the town. Meeting firefighters after viewing the scene, Burnham sounded shocked as he said the “combustible situation” was related to climate change…
A wildfire on Croatia’s coast has left at least 10 people in intensive care and dozens more injured after fire crews battled overnight with “one of the worst” blazes in the country’s history, according to officials. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Around 2,000 had been evacuated from nearby villages as the fire ripped through the surrounding hills, damaging homes and destroying cars in the early hours of Friday. As access reopened mid-morning, the AFP news agency saw the blackened remains of several burnt out cars along roads near Omiš, some ringed by silver puddles of metal that had melted under the intense heat…
Published on 14/08/2026 – 16:03 GMT+2 Ukraine’s military command said its forces liberated 26 settlements in a push around Oleksandrivka in southeastern Ukraine, in an operation that ran for more than six months. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Of the liberated settlements, 12 are located in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, 10 in the Donetsk region and four in the Zaporizhzhia region. Kyiv authorities insist that the Oleksandrivka-direction counteroffensive was designed to blunt Russia’s spring-summer offensive and push Russian troops out of Dnipropetrovsk region, an area Moscow had been trying to carve into a buffer zone. According to Ukrainian Airborne Assault Forces Command, Kyiv’s troops have…
Published on 14/08/2026 – 15:30 GMT+2 Ash spewing from Sicily’s Mount Etna volcano has forced the closure of the Italian island’s largest airport for the fifth consecutive day, stranding hundreds of summer holiday travellers during the busiest travel week of the year. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Catania’s airport will remain closed until early on Saturday, which falls on the Ferragosto holiday that marks the height of the Italian summer holiday season when millions flock to the sea and mountains, deserting Italian cities. While Etna’s activity often interrupts flights at the airport, located 30 kilometres south of the volcano, this is the longest…
By Kirsten Ripper Published on 14/08/2026 – 10:38 GMT+2 Where should the journey go? In 2026, many tourists now think very carefully about that. And among US tourists, Germany may now lose out as a destination. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The reason: in the US State Department’s travel advisories, the Federal Republic remains at security level 2. Travellers are therefore advised to exercise “increased caution”. Switzerland, Austria, Portugal and Poland are classified by the US authorities at security level 1 as countries without a particular warning level. Norway also benefits from this positive rating, which was updated at the beginning of July 2026.…
Thousands of illlegal migrants who arrived Ceuta late-July are still in the autonomous Spanish enclave while reception facilities struggle to cope with an emergency that has overwhelmed their capacity. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Many migrants are sleeping in the open on the streets, with residents handing out food and NGO and associations cooking non-stop for almost two weeks. The situation is one of “complete vulnerability”, Halima Ahmed, spokesperson and social educator for Ceuta-based NGO Luna Blanca, tells ‘Euronews’. There are people who eat only once a day and rely on humanitarian organisations or even on neighbours cooking food in their own homes.…
Migration is a hot-button issue, especially when displacements peak, such as the recent episode in the Spanish territory of Ceuta, which saw around 80,000 people cross the border from Morocco in just 48 hours at the end of July. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Despite the global number of refugees falling by 3% in 2025 compared to the end of 2024, according to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, the issue remains firmly on people’s minds: Google searches on the topic have increased by 150% in the past five years. While overall public support for offering refuge remains strong, there are still widespread doubts…