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Published on 14/05/2026 – 10:04 GMT+2 A court in Kyiv ruled on Thursday that a powerful former aide of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky be detained ahead of a high-profile trial on corruption allegations in a probe that has roiled the country. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Former chief of staff Andriy Yermak has been placed in custody for two months with bail set for €2.7 million. Yermak said he will stay behind bars as he cannot pay the sum. “I don’t have that kind of money for bail. Right now, my lawyer will be working with friends and acquaintances. I deny any accusations.…
Poland’s capital, Warsaw, registered its first same-sex marriage on Thursday, implementing court rulings that require the country to recognise same-sex marriages registered abroad. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In November, the European Union’s highest court ordered Poland to register same-sex marriages that were entered into in other EU countries even if Polish law does not currently permit them. In March, Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court cited that ruling in ordering authorities to recognise the marriage in Germany of two Polish men. “This morning we issued the first transcription of a marriage certificate for a same-sex couple, in accordance with the court rulings,” Warsaw Mayor…
Published on 14/05/2026 – 10:44 GMT+2 First, Elon Musk is there to protect Tesla’s massive Chinese footprint and his interests as head of xAI. Tim Cook is managing his final lap as Apple’s CEO, balancing billions in sales with a shift of production away from China. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT There is also the “king of chips,” Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, who joined at the last minute to lobby for the sale of powerful H200 AI chips currently stalled by US and Chinese regulations. Joining them are the giants of the supply chain. Micron is there to fight Beijing’s ban on American memory…
Published on 14/05/2026 – 15:28 GMT+2 Denmark’s Queen Margrethe, who abdicated in 2024 has been admitted to hospital due to chest pain, the Royal House of Denmark said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The 86-year-old Queen was admitted to Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen’s main hospital, “this afternoon due to angina,” the court said in a statement. She will remain in hospital over the weekend for observation and further examinations, the court added. “Her Majesty is tired, but in good spirits,” it said. The former sovereign reigned in the Scandinavian country for 52 years before passing the throne to her eldest son Frederik in…
Pope Leo XIV denounced how investments in artificial intelligence and high-tech weaponry were leading the world into a “spiral of annihilation” on Thursday, as he called for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine during a visit to Europe’s largest university. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The pontiff’s speech at Rome’s La Sapienza University marked the first time a pope has visited the campus since Pope Benedict XVI called off a planned speech there in 2008 in the face of protests from faculty and students. The American pope was warmly welcomed on Thursday, including by some of Sapienza’s newest students: Young Palestinians who…
The United States has cancelled the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland as part of a broader Pentagon plan to withdraw 5,000 soldiers from NATO territory in Germany, Euronews can confirm. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Earlier this month, the US administration announced the drawdown amid a growing rift between Washington and Berlin, after the German Chancellor Frederic Merz characterised the US-Israeli war in Iran as ill-conceived. He also said that the White House had been “humiliated” in the regime in Tehran. US President Donald Trump reacted angrily to the remarks, posting a series of messages attacking the German chancellor and telling him…
A raft of AI-generated and out-of-context videos has circulated online in recent weeks, misrepresenting Italy’s relationship with Israel. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Two clips have been widely shared on social media platforms Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram with misleading and false captions, with users overstating that relations between the two have severely deteriorated when they were once strong. One of the clips, which garnered thousands of views across platforms, depicts Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni snubbing a handshake from her Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, during a UN meeting. Meloni, draped in a Palestinian flag, then walks out of the room. Multiple users…
Hungary’s government has ended the country’s state of emergency in a move that new Prime Minister Péter Magyar said represented a return to “normality.” ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “As of today, after four years, the wartime state of emergency in Hungary is ending, and with it we are also putting an end to the decree-based emergency rule introduced by the Orbán government six years ago,” Magyar said in a post on X. The emergency governance framework was first introduced by the government of previous Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in 2020 as part of measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was…
By Alessio Dell’Anna & video by Loredana Dumitru Published on 14/05/2026 – 11:20 GMT+2 European businesses are pulling back on their investments. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The EU’s business investment rate fell to its lowest level in more than a decade, reaching 21.8% in Q4 2025, according to new Eurostat data. The rate basically measures how much money companies are investing in things such as machinery and buildings, relative to the total value they create. The index doesn’t take into account banks and financial corporations but rather “regular businesses”, such as hotels, factories, supermarkets, airlines and so on. Interestingly, the EU business rate peaked right…
Updated: 14/05/2026 – 10:06 GMT+2 The EU must realise that “it’s difficult to survive” if it does not speak with one voice, Michael Bloss, a Greens MEP, tells Euronews. He made the comments off the back of US President Donald Trump visiting China to speak with President Xi Jinping about a raft of issues that could impact the bloc. … More