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Published on 12/09/2026 – 11:35 GMT+2 On the banks of the Danube near Kirchroth in the district of Straubing-Bogen, a 66-year-old woman out for a walk spotted a constrictor snake more than two metres long basking in the sun. She immediately realised that it was not a native species. “It was a longer snake than the ones we have here,” she told police. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Grass snakes and Aesculapian snakes are familiar sights in the region. These non-venomous species can also grow to considerable lengths, with Aesculapian snakes reaching nearly two metres. Police and firefighters arrived at the scene, accompanied…
Published on 12/09/2026 – 10:25 GMT+2•Updated 10:41 Dublin is bracing itself ahead of a meeting between the US President Donald Trump and Irish President Catherine Connolly Saturday morning. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Trump is landing in Dublin where he is due to take part in a bilateral meeting with Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin for around an hour. The visit coincides with the US president’s attendance at the Irish Open golf tournament – which is being held at his golf club – the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Doonbeg in County Clare. Trump will spend the majority of his 48-hour…
Published on 12/09/2026 – 9:13 GMT+2 At least 44 people have been injured, one of them seriously, after a train which was carrying 186 people derailed in northern France on Friday, according to officials. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot wrote on social media X that the train was running between the Normandy region cities of Rouen and Caen. A mass-casualty response plan was activated, mobilising 130 firefighters, five medical teams and 80 vehicles. Local authorities said in a statement that the incident took place at around 7:45 pm. “Suddenly there were a few jolts, and then after about three…
Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has told Europe Today that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has driven Israel into a “very dangerous place”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Describing it as “the most far-right government in Israel’s history”, Eide said he hoped that, regardless of the outcome of Israel’s October elections, the country would eventually recognise it had been on a “very dangerous track”. Eide spoke to Euronews’ EU Editor Maria Tadeo in Riga, Latvia, days after Norway joined 11 other countries in sanctioning trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank. He said that the West had “undermined its credibility” with its “wobbly,…
By Simon Ormiston & Euronews Published on 10/09/2026 – 20:53 GMT+2•Updated 11/09/2026 – 10:42 GMT+2 A coach overturned on a mountain road in the eastern Swiss canton of Graubünden this week, leaving five people dead and 40 injured, local police said on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The crash took place on Thursday on a stretch of road linking the villages of Susch and Zernez, deep in the Engadine valley. “The Dutch coach was travelling from Zernez towards Susch at 4.45 pm. Near the village of Less, it veered off the road in a roadworks area and overturned. Of the 45 adults on board the…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 13:10 GMT+2•Updated 13:11 The chief of staff to the Spanish government’s delegate in Ceuta, Gonzalo Sanz, has resigned from his position, the latest episode in an ongoing controversy over what Spanish authorities may have known ahead of the mass arrival of migrants into the North African exclave in late July. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The resignation has not yet been officially confirmed by sources at the Government Delegation. Sanz said he received a warning from the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) on 29 July, in which he was alerted to messages circulating on social media in groups with a…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 13:42 GMT+2 Portugal’s economy and employment growth are the best-performing in Europe, according to the country’s Prime Minister Luís Montenegro. But how true is that? ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Montenegro made the comments while speaking to the Assembly of the Republic, Portugal’s parliament, on 8 September. Here, MPs were debating a motion of no confidence in the government put forward by the far-right Chega party. The motion came about after Montenegro refused to sack Interior Minister Luís Neves over allegations of misconduct while he was head of Portugal’s Judiciary Police between 2018 and 2026. Other opposition parties came…
On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, former US Ambassador to the European Union Anthony Gardner says “diplomatic, financial and economic” means are also needed to fight terrorism. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Gardner pointed out that 9/11 showed the world the power of “asymmetric warfare” and the damage “a small but determined radicalised group of terrorists can do” against “a much bigger power”. Gardner also insists that “AI is going to make asymmetric warfare even more relevant.”
Published on 11/09/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2•Updated 14:41 On today’s show: Stefan Grobe speaks to Anthony Gardner, former US ambassador to the European Union during the second Obama administration, about how 9/11 changed America and the world, and what lessons political leaders should still be learning today. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Maria Tadeo reports live from the Rīga Conference in Latvia, where she speaks exclusively to the EU’s economy chief Valdis Dombrovskis about Russia’s aggression and whether the Baltic states are getting the Russian threat right. She also interviews Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide. Also in Riga, Angela Skujins interviews Kyrylo Budanov,…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 14:46 GMT+2 The Hague and Madrid are pushing for an EU-wide minimum age for social media use, potentially extended to other online services, as the European Commission prepares to announce its own proposal next week. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The social media ban should be harmonised and enforced at European level, and extended to video games, AI chatbots and other risky digital services, the two countries said in a non-paper circulated on Friday. Restricting minors’ access to social media has become an increasingly hot topic in the EU and beyond. France, Greece, Austria, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Germany,…