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By Alessio Dell’Anna & video by Léa Becquet Published on 27/07/2026 – 9:45 GMT+2 Sailing through the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial shipping lane between Iran and Oman, remains a highly dangerous venture. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In recent days, there have been several reports of attacks on oil tankers by both Iran and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi Rebels. The United States insists that the passageway is open, but, at the same time, it threatens to target Iran’s bridges and power plants if the attacks continue. Experts say the latest strikes have mainly targeted large, international merchant vessels rather than ships trading locally, but they are…
Published on 27/07/2026 – 8:15 GMT+2 The EU is debating how far platforms should go in scanning private digital messages and conversations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Earlier this month, MEPs approved extending the “Chat Control 1.0” regulation until April 2028. The measure, in force since 2021, allows platforms to voluntarily scan digital private messages and emails. This doesn’t apply to end-to-end encrypted services, including WhatsApp and Signal, where only senders and receivers can read messages. Chat control is an exception to Europe’s e-Privacy Directive, which protects private online activity and communication. It requires users’ consent before any access, monitoring, or use. The…
Mainstream large language models (LLMs) such as Google Gemini have reportedly cited pro-Russian propaganda from an EU-sanctioned propaganda outlet when generating responses, including claims that Ukraine is using the bodies of dead soldiers in meat products. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT There are also signs that foreign actors engaged in hybrid information warfare activities, such as Russia, could make use of the growing industry of GEO (generative engine optimisation), which aims to influence the information received by LLMs, according to a new reportpublished by researchers from UK-based cross-party think tank Demos, shared exclusively with Euronews. Researchers selected 50 propaganda narratives from ten articles…
By Wolfgang Kubicki is a lawyer and leader of Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP). He is a former member of the German Bundestag and former Vice President of the Bundestag. Published on 26/07/2026 – 22:04 GMT+2 The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. Almost exactly ten years ago, on 12 June 2016, Orlando, Florida, was the scene of the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since 11 September 2001. A gunman opened fire at the Pulse nightclub, killing 49 people and injuring 58 others.…
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) confirmed today that a woman was killed in Saturday evening’s attack on Berlin’s Christopher Street Day (CSD) and 29 people were injured, some seriously, a number of them critically. On the fringes of the event, a car ploughed into a crowd of people in the so-called Tiergarten park. The Pride event was then called off. According to Dobrindt, the attack has been classified as an “Islamist terrorist attack”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT As the minister explained in a statement at the scene at midday on Sunday, the suspected attacker not only used the van as a weapon,…
By René Powilleit, Berliner Landesvorsitzender des Verbandes “Lesben und Schwule in der Union” (LSU), einer politischen Sonderorganisation innerhalb der Christlich Demokratischen Union Deutschlands (CDU) Published on 26/07/2026 – 16:30 GMT+2•Updated 16:36 The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. What began as a day of joy, freedom and love in the heart of the German capital turned into an unimaginable tragedy in the evening. Hundreds of thousands were celebrating Berlin’s Christopher Street Day until a suspected Islamist attack using a delivery vehicle cut a trail of…
Stabbed eighteen times while celebrating mass in his church, France is paying tribute to Father Jacques Hamel, ten years after his assassination by two terrorists who had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen, is at the heart of Sunday’s commemorations, attended by members of the government, François Hollande, who was president of the Republic at the time of the attack, as well as around a hundred elected representatives. A mass is being celebrated in the church where the 86-year-old parish priest was killed, presided over by Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, head of the French Bishops’…
Published on 26/07/2026 – 11:58 GMT+2 Spain’s prime minister has thanked the media for their work in communicating accurate information and the public for their exemplary behaviour during these wildfires. Sánchez added that people needed to “exercise extreme caution”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Sánchez said there were still “difficult hours of work ahead”, although he confirmed that the work carried out overnight had been very positive. The president of the Castile and León region, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, described the cooperation between institutions as effective: “All the different tiers of government have been working together.” Here is a summary of the situation regarding…
Russian strikes across Ukraine have killed at least eight people and injured dozens more over the last 24 hours. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said one person was killed and nine were wounded in a drone attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv. “All the necessary emergency services have been deployed at the site,” Zelenskyy said, adding that residential buildings had been hit. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, two women aged 35 and 74 were killed after Russia struck three districts in the area with drones, artillery, and aerial bombs on Saturday, per local authorities. One person died…
A species that resembles a jellyfish but, unlike a jellyfish, has no stinging cells reached Europe in the 1980s. As W.M. Graham and K.M. Bayha point out in the bookBiological Invasions by Marine Jellyfish (source in Polish), it was carried there by ships calling at Black Sea ports from the Atlantic coasts of North and South America. It soon became one of the dominant organisms in those waters. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In 1988, at the height of the invasion, the density of Mnemiopsis leidyi reached as many as 400 individuals per cubic metre. Shortly afterwards, however, as it consumed huge quantities…