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Published on 22/09/2026 – 18:32 GMT+2•Updated 19:21 US President Donald Trump has signed a new Greenland security deal with Denmark and the island territory. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen signed the agreement on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Under the terms of the deal, shared online by the Danish Foreign Ministry, the US will be permitted to expand its military presence on Greenland through the modernisation and enlargement of its current Pituffik Space Base and the establishment of new defence areas at Narsarsuaq and…

A fake photo circulating online of two alleged Israeli passports belonging to Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife, Olena Zelenska, allegedly shows that the Ukrainian president and his family have chosen Israel as their homeland instead of Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Facebook post was published at the beginning of September alongside the caption: “You can twist it any way you like, but we always come back to the same point: Zelenskyy and his family have a homeland of choice that inspires, protects and supports him in everything he does, and that homeland is certainly not Ukraine. This is common knowledge, just…

Authorities in Poland have detained a 17-year-old accused of preparing an attack on a school and a mosque. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A court has ordered that the teenager, named as Paweł G, be held in pre-trial detention for three months. The case is part of an ongoing investigation by Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) looking into individuals active in online neo-Nazi and extremist circles. On 18 September, ABW reported the detention of two minors who were active in groups bringing together people linked to such ideologies. At the time, officials stressed that the investigation was ongoing, with officers analysing the detainees’…

The European Union has agreed to remove Uzbek-Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov from its sanctions list after fraught negotiations that saw France link his delisting to a prisoner release with Azerbaijan, unsettling Brussels. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT A second Russian oligarch, Mikhail Fridman, was also removed after Slovakia vetoed his continued listing, several diplomats told Euronews. Luxembourg had argued that if Usmanov was removed, Fridman should be too. Fridman has filed a $16 billion claim against Luxembourg over his frozen assets. Ambassadors sealed the compromise on Tuesday afternoon after two weeks of drawn-out talks that brought the bloc’s sanctions regime to the brink…

Published on 22/09/2026 – 13:46 GMT+2•Updated 14:01 Soldiers returning from the front line in Ukraine are bringing back weapons and military equipment, raising concerns that battlefield components could start circulating within the European Union, according to a confidential EU document seen by Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The risk of firearms being diverted from the battlefield will be discussed by EU ambassadors on Wednesday, as European authorities step up efforts to track weapons entering the bloc. “Member states have reported weapon components and military equipment in the possession of returning combatants,” reads the EU Council document, which focuses on the war in…

Published on 22/09/2026 – 14:50 GMT+2•Updated 15:00 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has publicly called on the European Union and its member states to keep oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman under sanctions, as talks on renewing the blacklist enter their final stages in Brussels. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The entire list will expire if ambassadors fail to find a deal by the end of Tuesday. “The world needs not a political delisting, but timely and unconditional rollover of individual sanctions, until Moscow engages in serious peace negotiations and takes concrete steps to end its war against Ukraine,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.…

Published on 22/09/2026 – 11:54 GMT+2•Updated 12:00 The European Commission struck a trade agreement with the Philippines on Tuesday, stepping up its diversification strategy across the Indo-Pacific region. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The deal comes more than a year after the US introduced sweeping new tariffs on many of its trading partners, prompting retaliatory measures and adding to global trade tensions. Since then, the EU has been seeking new trade ties, recently concluding major deals with India, Australia and Indonesia. “This agreement sends a clear signal that the EU is reinforcing its engagement with the Indo-Pacific,” EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said…

Published on 22/09/2026 – 12:32 GMT+2•Updated 12:51 European People’s Party leader Manfred Weber warned that Morocco could face “obvious consequences” if the border with the Spanish exclave of Ceuta could not be stabilised, raising the prospect of further “uncontrolled situations” following the arrival of around 80,000 irregular migrants at the end of July. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Weber was the first senior EU figure to visit Ceuta since the crisis erupted, travelling alongside Spanish opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Ceuta President Juan Jesús Vivas. The visit came amid growing public discontent and mounting pressure on Sánchez’s government over the presence of…

Russia bombarded at least four Ukrainian regions overnight with missiles and drones, killing four people, officials said on Tuesday, and Ukraine’s forces damaged another Russian oil refinery in their latest long-range strike. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The ongoing exchange of daily aerial attacks, while positions on the battlefield’s front line barely change, provided a backdrop to the visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United States. Zelenskyy was due to meet other world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, at the UN General Assembly in New York. Zelenskyy is hoping to recruit their help to end Russia’s more than four-year full-scale…

The EU has to “find the adequate resources” to fund “innovative” solutions to the bloc’s migration challenges, such as offshore migrant return hubs, Greece’s deputy foreign minister Tasos Chatzivasileiou has told Europe Today. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “If we decide to implement any innovative ideas (for migration), that means that Europe has to find the adequate resources,” Chatzivasileiou said, adding that the EU’s next long-term budget, currently under negotiation, could “provide a solution to the problem”. His call comes as Greece and four other EU countries – Austria, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands – look to speed up plans to set up…