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By Harry Bligh with AFP Published on 26/08/2026 – 15:17 GMT+2 Europe’s second longest river, the Danube, has experienced record low levels after hot weather leading to drought across the continent. The lack of water has exposed some remarkable finds. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In northern Bulgaria, volunteers have been searching a dried-up river bank near the city of Ruse after a mammoth jawbone and tusk fragments were discovered last month. The latest search found fossilised oysters which are thought to date back around 60 to 65 million years. The mammoth discovery has led to a surge of people wanting to join in the search…
Published on 26/08/2026 – 15:28 GMT+2 British Prime Minister Andy Burnham is planning a visit to New York in September, where he is expected to press US President Donald Trump for further support for Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT World leaders are scheduled to meet in the city next month for the United Nations General Assembly, with military aid for Kyiv set to be high on the agenda. In an interview with Bloomberg earlier this week, Burnham said he was “looking forward to going to New York in September.” “I’ve not fully confirmed the details yet, but it’s likely I will go,…
Published on 26/08/2026 – 16:35 GMT+2 Prince Harry and his family have arrived back in the UK just days after announcing their intention to move, according to reports in British media. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Duke of Sussex, Meghan, and their two children – Archie and Lilibet – are thought to have landed in Birmingham on Wednesday after taking a private flight from California, per the reports. The couple had left the UK for the Golden State in 2020 after announcing that they would be stepping back from their roles in the Royal Family amid a bitter family feud. Reports say…
Mark Carney will address the European Parliament next month as Canada and the EU seek closer ties as the split with the US escalates under President Donald Trump’s tariffs. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Canadian Prime Minister will address the European Parliament on September 17 and attend European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech, which sets out the EU’s policy priorities and political direction, a day prior. While inviting guests of honour is not uncommon, Carney’s invitation is more political than in previous years, when Brussels opted for civil society figures and focused on Ukraine. The timing…
A “Yes” vote could leave the EU’s other Nordic neighbour in an awkward position, putting pressure on Norway to reconsider its relationship with Brussels. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Beyond Reykjavík and Brussels, one European capital is watching Saturday’s vote particularly closely: Oslo. Norway is arguably the non-EU country with the most at stake, especially if the “Yes” side wins. “We must recognise that an Icelandic membership process will pose special challenges for Norway as an EEA country,” Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide told parliament in May. Norway’s government has so far maintained that the European Economic Area (EEA) should remain the basis…
Spain’s National Police have arrested a fugitive known as the “escape master” in Tarragona. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The man was the subject of a European arrest warrant issued by Italian authorities. His record includes escapes from prisons in Terni and Parma in Italy, as well as from a prison in Belgium. In his latest breakout in December, he managed to escape a high-security Italian prison after sawing through the bars of a window and climbing down the building using knotted bedsheets, according to police. In Belgium, he is also said to have climbed over a prison’s walls after forming a human…
Ireland is keeping the door open to nuclear power as a potential answer to the growing energy demand from data centres, even as the government insists its immediate energy strategy will remain firmly focused on renewables, an Irish government official told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “There is a need to consider all options (with decarbonising potential) in the long-term,” a spokesperson for the Irish Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment said. Political talks about the future of data centres are heating up in Dublin, the Silicon Valley of Europe. According to the country’s Central Statistics Office, data centres consume roughly…
Spanish police have revised down the number of minors recorded in Ceuta following the mass arrival of migrants from Morocco last month, after discovering duplicate entries in their databases. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to the Interior Ministry, some procedures involving the same child had been recorded as separate cases, inflating the overall figure. On 18 August, police said they had located, identified and placed 2,168 minors in the care of the Ceuta authorities since the mass arrival of people from Morocco on 30 July and up to 09:00 that morning. Following a review of the records, the figure now stands at…
With the trade war with the US heating back up, Canada’s Prime minister Mark Carney has delivered another pledge to deepen his country’s economic and security partnership with the EU. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His statement came after trade talks between Ottawa and Washington collapsed last week, with Canada accusing the US of interfering in its sovereignty by demanding French-language concessions. In retaliation, US President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that on 1 January 2027, tariffs on cars and trucks will be increased to 50%. “WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!” he wrote. “They do 95% of their business with…
Leonardo has set up a new company in Kyiv with the aim of moving into the frontier of drone warfare, whose epicentre is now Ukraine, and of reaping the hoped-for benefits for European production and defence. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Italian arms manufacturer has in recent months created Leonardo Ukraine, a company wholly owned by the group, according to the daily newspaper Milano Finanza. (source in Italian) At the Farnborough Airshow in the United Kingdom in July, the company’s chief executive, Lorenzo Mariani, explained how Ukraine has “acquired an operational experience without equal during the conflict” and that it was therefore…