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FC Barcelona footballer Pablo Páez Gavira, better known as Gavi, is reported to have allocated 1.3 million euros to a housing project for people who are homeless or in vulnerable situations in Los Palacios y Villafranca, the town in Seville where he was born and raised. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to Spanish media, the initiative involves the construction of 150 apartments with capacity for around 300 people. The aim is to provide stable accommodation for local residents who are facing difficulties in accessing housing. The project represents a particularly significant investment for the midfielder because of his close ties to Los…
Published on 22/08/2026 – 7:00 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner could make their first visit to Ukraine in the coming days, after weeks of reports that the two key negotiators were preparing to travel to Kyiv as part of Washington’s efforts to end Russia’s full-scale invasion. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The visit may take place around Ukraine’s Independence Day on Monday, although neither Washington nor Kyiv have confirmed the trip. Trump said in late July that he would send Witkoff and Kushner to the Ukrainian capital in the coming weeks. Subsequent reports suggested the two could…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 21:51 GMT+2 “It is clear that, with Donald Trump, I thought things would be easier, given our convergence on immigration and woke culture. But things turned out differently.”, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told to the New York Times, setting out her view of the difficult relations that have developed over time between her government and the Washington administration. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In July Trump’s post about Meloni: ‘Needs a restraining order’ The tensions between the two governments peaked last July, ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, when the US head of state posted on his…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 19:02 GMT+2•Updated 19:46 At least 14 people have been killed and 121 others injured in a Russian Friday afternoon strike on a shopping mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, according to Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Hanzha said the number of casualties from the “enemy attack on Kryvyi Rig” was growing, adding that shops inside the mall were on fire. Zelenskyy condemned the attack on social media X, which was carried out in his hometown, as “cynical and despicable”, adding that it was “an ordinary shopping center”.…
Latvia stopped 28 migrants who crossed the eastern European Union’s border from Belarus using a tunnel. The underground passage, found around 20 metres from the border, was concealed with moss. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It is the second such tunnel discovered in Latvia. On 10 August, Latvian border guards found another tunnel that had been used by 15 migrants to enter the country from Belarus. Latvia has been experiencing a rise in irregular migration in recent months — something that European leaders call a hybrid attack by Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s regime — as the country is preparing for parliamentary elections on 3 October.…
More and more European governments are announcing their intention to transfer, or that they have already transferred, so-called Dublin transferees to Italy. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT After Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Finland, Sweden has also confirmed to Italian news agency ANSA that it intends to “apply the rules as set out” in the new EU Pact on Asylum and Migration, which entered into force on 12 June, and that it expects “all member states to fulfil their obligations,” Italy included. Spain and France are taking the opposite line, two other countries that are key points of first entry into Europe for migrants,…
By Kirsten Ripper & Euronews Published on 21/08/2026 – 15:33 GMT+2 The boa constrictor, which can grow to more than 3 metres in length, actually lives in South America, where it is found from Colombia to Argentina. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT So a motorist in Colomiers, a suburb of Toulouse in France, got quite a shock when he discovered a 1.5-metre-long snake of this species under his car bonnet. The discovery was made when the driver was about to change the battery of the car, which had not been driven for a month, according to the Haute-Garonne fire brigade’s Facebook page. Five firefighters, two of…
The Government of Ceuta and its cleaning crews will, on Friday, try to clean up Trampolín beach for the second time, according to the newspaper “Faro de Ceuta”. There, they will first attempt to carry out a new eviction of the approximately 500 migrants, although there are no official figures, who are thought to have returned over the course of Thursday afternoon to this kind of makeshift camp, after being transferred to temporary reception centres that same morning. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The situation appeared to have been resolved on Thursday when cleaning crews entered after the initial eviction, but over the…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 7:46 GMT+2•Updated 10:55 A Belgian university suspended a US academic on Thursday who spearheaded accusations of plagiarism against Jason Arday, the black ex-Cambridge professor found dead last week after resigning over the scandal. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Researcher Nathan Cofnas, a self-defined “race realist” who was himself sacked from his Cambridge post two years ago, posted on X: “I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me.” Without naming Cofnas, the University of Ghent said in a statement it had launched a “preliminary disciplinary investigation” against a postdoctoral researcher embroiled in the furore, suspending…
Published on 21/08/2026 – 11:26 GMT+2 A European Commission official close to discussions over the EU’s €90 billion loan for Ukraine has told Euronews that Kyiv has suggested that the next defence funding envelope could be used to acquire anti-ballistic missile systems, among other capabilities. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The official could not specify whether these would be the American-made Patriot air defence missile system or its European equivalent — the Franco-Italian SAMP/T NG ground-to-air missile system — as the discussions were ongoing and no formal product schedule had been placed. The upcoming order is expected to be made before September, with…