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Published on 03/07/2026 – 15:00 GMT+2 Some 40 years, Finland´s capital started to design new solutions to reduce deadly road accidents – and then eventually eliminate them. Those efforts have now paid off. 12 consecutive months without a single road death were recorded between 2024 and 2025. By comparison, during a similar period 31 people -including drivers, pedestrians, bikers or cyclists- died on the streets of Paris. By the time of the filming of this report, another nine consecutive months had passed without a single road death in Helsinki. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Comprehensive city planning has been a key aspect, but…
Dozens of diamonds spell out two giant letter “T” next to the Stars and Stripes and “1776” and “2026.” ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Dozens more frame the numbers 45 and 47 in the shape of Superman’s logo. A diamond-winged eagle carries a ruby shield and clutches an olive branch of emeralds, below a radiant “250” and atop the phrase “250 YEARS USA” etched in 18-karat gold. All told, 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and six rubies encrust the watch-sized gold ring presented this week to Bill White, the US ambassador to Belgium, to give to President Donald Trump. “A very special…
Published on 03/07/2026 – 15:02 GMT+2•Updated 15:03 The Ukraine war front line remained largely frozen in June, extending a longer-term trend of stalled Russian momentum, an analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) carried out by the AFP news agency showed on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The June data showed a Russian net gain of 30 square kilometres, focused in the northeastern Kharkiv region. But those gains were largely down to previous Russian incursions being upgraded to advances, as more evidence came to light, said the ISW. Ukrainian forces gained 11 square kilometres in the southern…
The European Union will retaliate against China if the country fails to make tangible changes to its unfair trade practices by October, Ursula von der Leyen has said amid rising tensions between Brussels and Beijing. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Dialogue is essential, but the dialogue has to deliver,” the president of the European Commission said on Friday during an official visit to Cork, Ireland. “Depending on how the response of the Chinese is, in the fall will then be our potential activity. We are basically prepared for everything, and we have all the instruments on the table, and we are thinking about…
Published on 03/07/2026 – 16:07 GMT+2 EU member states agreed on Friday to sanction six Russian nationals linked to the chemical substance suspected of killing Russian dissident Alexei Navalny during his detention in a penal colony. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Those targeted are scientists and researchers involved in Russia’s military chemical weapons programme, most notably in the development of epibatidine, traces of which were found on Navalny’s body after his death in February 2024. Navalny was Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and anti-corruption activist. He was arrested in 2021 on fraud charges after returning to Russia following a failed poisoning attempt in…
By the end of next year, around 5,000 German troops will be permanently stationed between the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, and the border with Belarus as part of the new Lithuania Panzerbrigade 45. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT During a major military exercise in May and June, Lithuanian schoolgirl Kamilė V. found herself at the heart of the action after winning a Bundeswehr tank ride in a NATO essay competition. Euronews met her shortly before the experience at the Pabradė training area, where she joined soldiers from the mechanised infantry battalion assigned to Brigade 45. They had just completed the nearly six-week “Freedom Shield”…
Ukraine and Moldova notched another milestone in their EU accession bids at a technical meeting on Friday, as member states unanimously agreed to advance the opening of another cluster of negotiations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The move to unlock cluster six (“External Relations”) marks a further step in the two candidates’ accession process, reflecting Hungary’s gradual shift in position following Péter Magyar’s landslide election victory over Viktor Orbán. Orbán had kept Kyiv’s accession bid on hold for years over a dispute concerning the treatment of the Hungarian minority in western Ukraine. Magyar’s new government worked with the Ukrainian side to resolve the…
US Democrats are urging the European Commission to resist mounting commercial pressure and the Trump administration’s demands that the bloc scrap its methane rules, despite warnings that transatlantic energy exports, which are now the bloc’s second-largest provider, could decline if the rules remain in place. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “At a time when the EU’s methane rules are facing increasing pressure to be delayed or weakened by fossil fuel interests, maintaining clear, consistent rules for all suppliers is essential to strengthening Europe’s energy security, while also reducing highly potent greenhouse gas emissions,” reads a 1 July letter sent by five US lawmakers,…
By Euronews with AFP Published on 03/07/2026 – 11:36 GMT+2 Thailand’s foreign ministry has denied a viral online claim that French President Emmanuel Macron knelt before the country’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn while presenting France’s highest state honours during the Thai monarch’s state visit to Paris. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The claim spread after an AI-generated image circulated widely on Thai social media following the king’s official visit to France, the first by a Thai monarch since 1960, marking 170 years of diplomatic relations between the two nations. During a state dinner at the presidential palace, Macron presented the 73-year-old king with the Grand Cross of…
Published on 03/07/2026 – 10:56 GMT+2 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said the Baltic country’s top political leaders had agreed that a constitutional ban on the domestic deployment of nuclear weapons should be removed. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Nauseda said Article 137 of Lithuania’s constitution, which explicitly prohibits the deployment of weapons of mass destruction and the establishment of foreign military bases on Lithuanian territory had become “outdated” and “obsolete,” according to a report by a state broadcaster LRT. “The geopolitical situation is getting worse. Our constitution was written when geopolitical circumstances were totally different,” Nauseda said. The Baltic country hosts a NATO…