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A 94-year-old woman in Florence faces losing the home she has lived in for more than 60 years after her landlord said her rent would rise from €450 to €1,200 a month. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Franca’s contract expires in February, and her family says she will not be able to afford to renew it on the new terms. Her case closely echoes that of María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, the 87-year-old who became a symbol of the fight for housing in Spain after a steep rent rise led to her eviction in Madrid. She died in hospital a few…

Spiralling energy prices, the EU’s long-term budget and support for Ukraine in the wake of Donald Trump’s latest overture to Vladimir Putin will dominate the conversation as the leaders gather for a two-day summit in Brussels. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Enlargement, hybrid warfare, economic stagnation, rising borrowing costs, trade imbalances and irregular migration will also feature in the talks. The meeting will start early on Thursday with a hotly anticipated discussion on energy prices, which hostilities in the Middle East have sent skyrocketing. Oil remains above $100 per barrel despite a coordinated G7 release, while gas trades at its highest level since…

Published on 14/10/2026 – 17:42 GMT+2 French investigators are searching for the hackers who took over refrigeration units at at least 350 supermarkets, forcing staff to throw away spoiled meat and frozen food. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Stores belonging to Carrefour, Monoprix, Intermarché and Coopérative U were among those hit when attackers manually overrode fridge temperatures. The affected stores are a small fraction of France’s supermarkets. The lack of a ransom demand or claim of responsibility has puzzled investigators, according to a source with knowledge of the probe cited by Reuters. Criminal and hacktivist groups usually move quickly to profit from or…

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares tells Euronews the upcoming election on November 29 pits a ‘progressive majority’ against rightwing forces that want to remove fundamental rights. Albares sees elements of foreign interference, saying “they want to divide and weaken Europeans”. He also discusses Madrid’s position ahead of an EU leaders summit on Thursday, advocating to use the Russian frozen assets to finance Ukraine after Brussels shelved the idea in 2025. He spoke on the sidelines of the Warsaw Security Forum. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT

Published on 14/10/2026 – 16:06 GMT+2 The Louvre could eventually have to shut its doors to the public unless France’s next government backs a sweeping transformation of the world’s most-visited museum, its director has warned. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Christophe Leribault told Le Figaro on Wednesday that the museum would seek private funding for the work, but that a major injection of public money would have to be approved after France’s national elections next year. “Whoever forms the next government must keep in mind that if the Louvre is not repaired, updated, and transformed, it will very quickly fall behind and will…

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday a one-year delay for importers to show compliance with EU methane rules, giving companies until May 2029 to prove that their supplies meet equivalent EU standards. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The proposal follows pressure from industry and governments concerned about compliance costs and energy security, but falls short of calls from some EU countries for a three-year delay. Environmental groups condemned the move, arguing that the methane rules pose no threat to Europe’s energy security and that the current supply crisis stems instead from the US-Israeli war against Iran, which has disrupted shipping through the Strait…

Just two days ago, Louise Gotze was in the Ugandan city of Entebbe with her team, sharing her knowledge with around 30 doctors and nurses. She spoke to healthcare professionals about how to care for Ebola patients without becoming infected themselves. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “These training sessions are absolutely essential to ensure that staff do not become infected and that they know how to work safely when they are in the red zone, meaning the area where patients are being treated,” Gotze told Euronews. Around 200 healthcare workers are currently known to have become infected as a result of their work.…

Published on 14/10/2026 – 12:51 GMT+2 Russell Brand behaved as a “ruthless” sexual predator when he assaulted six women over the course of a decade, a prosecutor said on Wednesday as she opened the rape and sexual assault case against the actor-comedian. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Brand, 51, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault. The charges involve six women and alleged offences between 1999 and 2009. Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones told jurors at Southwark Crown Court in London that the six women, who do not know each other, were…

A former Ukrainian military officer is set to become the first person to stand trial over the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline bombings when proceedings begin in a German court on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In September that year, seven months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a series of blasts under the Baltic Sea damaged three of the four Nord Stream pipelines designed to carry Russian gas to Europe. While some in the West were quick to accuse Russia of sabotaging its own export route, German investigators identified a cell of Ukrainians they say were the alleged perpetrators. Investigators allege Sergiy…

Published on 14/10/2026 – 8:02 GMT+2 On today’s show: Maria Tadeo speaks exclusively to Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares on the sidelines of the Warsaw Security Forum about the pressures on Spain: the war in Ukraine, the housing crisis, the uncertainty of snap elections and renewed tension with Morocco over Ceuta. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Angela Skujins discusses the drone strikes that hit two commercial vessels off Bulgaria’s coast yesterday morning, the latest in a string of attacks on ships navigating the Black Sea, which is becomingthe next theatre of Russian aggression. Interview with Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament’s…