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Published on 13/10/2026 – 19:13 GMT+2 At least 25 people were injured after a Russian strike hit an educational institution in Ukraine’s Rivne on Tuesday, local authorities said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Police said two people who are in a serious condition are undergoing surgery, while three more people were being treated by medical staff. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said five ballistiv missiles also hit civilian infrastructure in the country’s capital Kyiv, adding that Ukraine received no early warning from its partners about the attack. Zelenskyy characterised the barrage on the capital as “particularly vile,” and emphasised that receiving intelligence from Ukraine’s partners…

Published on 14/10/2026 – 4:47 GMT+2 A Russian ballistic missile hit a power plant in Kyiv on Tuesday evening, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, without Ukraine receiving advance warning from its Western allies and despite US President Donald Trump’s claim for an “energy ceasefire” in effect. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Ukraine depends heavily on Western intelligence, especially from the US, to detect incoming Russian attacks and identify its own targets. Kyiv, home to about three million people, has faced intensifying attacks from Russian drones and missiles, with energy infrastructure a key target. “A Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. Once again, no early…

The EU Council has agreed to open two additional accession clusters with Ukraine after Hungary lifted its veto, bringing the total number of opened clusters to four out of six. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The decision follows an agreement on the rights of Hungary’s ethnic minority in Ukraine, a long-standing demand from Budapest. The breakthrough, alongside the opening of two additional accession clusters, could pave the way for a first bilateral meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar in Brussels this week, potentially marking a turning point in relations between the two neighbouring countries. Hungarian and Ukrainian…

Published on 13/10/2026 – 21:01 GMT+2 Violence broke out in Paris on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people joined school protests across France. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Demonstrations, which began in September as high school students protested against teacher shortages, poor facilities, and overcrowded classrooms, have gathered pace over the last week, with the French Interior Ministry reporting that around 161,500 people joined rallies on Tuesday. Union groups put the figure considerably higher, at around 480,000. Journalists with the AFP news agency reported seeing cars set alight and police firing tear gas in the French capital as people attempted to block…

Another major day of demonstrations got underway in France on Tuesday, with students and trade unions taking to the streets to protest education conditions and funding as the National Assembly began its debate on the government’s budget proposals for 2027. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Teaching unions told Euronews that they were dissatisfied with the government’s response to concerns over long school days, overcrowded classrooms, run down facilities, and teacher absences. “It is clear that the responses that have been provided are inadequate and do not meet the needs set out,” Elisabeth Allain-Moreno, secretary-general of SE UNSA, a teachers’ union, said. France’s Education…

Published on 13/10/2026 – 12:49 GMT+2•Updated 12:56 Sweden’s Social Democratic party leader Magdalena Andersson said Tuesday she had failed to form a government with the three other parties in the left-wing bloc following last month’s election. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “My overall assessment is that progress has been made, but at the same time, the conditions are currently not in place to form a government that can be tolerated by the parliament,” Andersson told a press conference. She spoke after reporting back to parliament speaker Andreas Norlen, who had tasked her with gauging conditions to form a government after the September 13…

Published on 13/10/2026 – 10:02 GMT+2•Updated 10:16 Euronews nearly doubled its online audience over the past year, bucking a sharp downturn across the world’s biggest news websites, according to new industry figures. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The site recorded 44.8 million visits in September, up 99% on the same month last year, according to the UK Press Gazette and is the fastest growing audience for the second month in a row after breaking into the top 50 in July. September’s figures represented the largest year-on-year increase of any site on the list. The rise came against a difficult backdrop for the sector.…

In the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, a total of 358 so-called child marriages have been officially recorded since 2012. Only eight of these forced marriages have so far been legally annulled. According to authorities, the other 350 cases were brought to an end in other ways. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This alarming finding comes from a response by the Baden-Württemberg state government to a minor inquiry submitted by AfD state parliament members Nikolaos Boutakoglou and Emely Knorr. The Tübingen regional authority is responsible for recording the data, the answer came from the Ministry of the Interior. 11-year-old Iraqi girl married off…

The European Security Council would fast-track traditional EU bureaucratic gridlock during security emergencies. Under the proposal, it would rely on what European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called a “counter-hybrid playbook” to address grey-zone hostile actions. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In her 2026 State of the Union address, she explicitly said that these new mechanisms are meant to be “fully aligned” and “complementary” to NATO rather than replacing it. And speaking at Euronews’ Defence & Space Summit, EU defence chief Andrius Kubilius said the ESC would “not [be] against NATO” but be “exactly the opposite”. “It is how to make Europe…

As an aside, you might notice a new look and feel to our newsletter from today. Good news: you can now also read Europe Today every morning in French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT But first, some breaking news: Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev has said that two more ships have been hit by drones in the Black Sea, one of which sank. Ukraine has blamed previous such attacks on Russia, accusing Moscow of seeking to choke off Kyiv’s vital maritime export route. More. Ukraine under fire: There is little sign of the surprise energy truce announced on…