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Published on 21/04/2026 – 7:56 GMT+2•Updated 8:01 On today’s show hosted by Mared Gwyn: ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Top story: Euronews’ Shona Murray reports on the EU’s foreign affairs meeting in Luxembourg. Interview with Espen Barth Eide, Norway’s foreign minister. Explainer by Jakub Janas: What’s behind the EU–Israel agreement and why is everyone talking about it. Euronews’ Sasha Vakulina reports on the latest developments on the Druzhba pipeline as Orban claims he will lift the veto of the EU’s Ukraine loan if oil starts flowing again. Euronews correspondent Jane Witherspoon live from Dubai on the Iran war. When and where to watch…

Dozens of sleuths have traced 45 Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia during an open-source investigative blitz hosted by Europol, it said on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Europol effort saw 40 investigators from 18 countries gather in The Hague for two days last week to use publicly available information known as open-source intelligence or OSINT to locate some of the children. “In total, information about 45 children was uncovered and shared with Ukrainian authorities to assist their ongoing investigations,” Europol said in a statement. “During this hackathon, investigators relied on various digital tools in their searches allowing them to trace…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he had been wrong to appoint Labour politician Peter Mandelson as UK envoy to Washington, seeking to quell anger over a scandal surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s long-time associate. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Starmer, whose popularity with the British public and many MPs in his own centre-left Labour Party has slumped, has also struggled to manage a controversy that threatens to bring down his leadership. Addressing parliament about the deepening political row, Starmer said: “At the heart of this, there is also a judgment I made that was wrong. I should not have…

France and Poland planned increased defence cooperation in a meeting of their leaders held on Monday against a background of Russia’s expansionist threat and a waning US commitment to Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish premier Donald Tusk told a news conference in Gdansk, northern Poland, that the scope of the boosted ties between the two NATO members could cover elements of nuclear deterrence, military satellites, joint drills, defence industry and shared intelligence. “Our cooperation, whether in the nuclear domain or in joint exercises…is a cooperation that knows no bounds,” Tusk said. Macron said work would be…

Published on 20/04/2026 – 21:32 GMT+2 Slovakia will hold a referendum in summer to decide whether to cancel lifelong payments for Prime Minister Robert Fico and other leaders after their terms in office expire, the country’s president said on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to President Peter Pellegrini, the vote is scheduled to take place on 4 July. At the same time, Slovaks will also vote on whether to reopen the office of the special prosecutor that used to deal with major crime and corruption. The referendum follows a petition organised by the Democrats, a non-parliamentary pro-Western opposition party, and signed…

Published on 20/04/2026 – 18:45 GMT+2•Updated 18:46 The European Commission is currently evaluating whether to suspend €1.5 billion in EU funding for Serbia due to rule-of-law concerns and contentious judicial reforms introduced by Belgrade in January, Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos told EU lawmakers on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Kos said she was particularly concerned about legal amendments that introduce major changes, creating a flawed form of autonomy for Serbia’s anti-corruption prosecution and weakening the independence of the judiciary. “We are increasingly worried about what is happening in Serbia. From laws that undermine the independence of the judiciary to crackdowns on protesters…

EU countries are set to push back on Spain’s request to end the EU-Israel association agreement during the Foreign Ministers’ meeting on Tuesday in Brussels, diplomats told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called on Sunday to break the agreement, accusing Israel of violating international law and therefore the terms of the deal. But his call is far from reaching the unified position needed to proceed. Ireland and Slovenia have previously joined Spain in requesting to discuss the agreement, considering that Israel “is in breach of its human rights obligations” for continuous violations of the ceasefire agreement, escalating…

During last month’s multinational exercise Grand Quadriga 2026, German troops in Seedorf weren’t just training with drones, they were also building them. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Instead of traditional live-fire drills, troops used reconnaissance drones, real-time data links and FPV systems to identify targets and engage them within seconds. FPV (first-person view) drones are unmanned aircraft piloted remotely fitted with an onboard camera, offering operators a live, direct view. As part of the so-called “Spark Cells” programme, soldiers worked alongside the Bundeswehr’s Cyber Innovation Hub (CIHBw) to build, test and refine some of these small unmanned systems themselves. The aim is to…

Published on 20/04/2026 – 17:00 GMT+2 Social media users are sharing a collection of AI-generated images, falsely claiming that they are stills from security camera footage of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meeting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In the pictures, we can see a figure resembling Zelenskyy shaking hands and talking with Epstein, with the accompanying social media posts alleging that the two were close and met each other in intimate, non-public settings on the disgraced financier’s private island. However, there’s plenty of evidence to prove that the images are fake. Firstly, The Cube, Euronews’ fact-checking team, ran…

Published on 20/04/2026 – 14:35 GMT+2 United Nations experts expressed concern on Monday over allegations of prolonged incommunicado detention and dire custody conditions in Belarus that may amount to torture. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The group of 17 independent experts said they had received information pointing to “deeply alarming detention practices that may amount to grave violations of international law” at the Novopolotsk correctional colony in northern Belarus. “We are gravely concerned that detainees in Novopolotsk Colony may be subjected to prolonged solitary confinement, disciplinary sanctions and physical punishments after suicide attempts,” they said in a statement. Mandated by the UN Human…