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Published on 11/10/2026 – 18:05 GMT+2 The eviction operations carried out by the state security forces began shortly after 8:00 am on the Guano beach in Ceuta, where around 400 migrants were still present following the wave of illegal immigration from Morocco that brought more than 70,000 people at the end of July. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The operation was made up largely of officers from the National Police, the Spanish riot units, immigration staff and members of the Civil Guard and local police. The procedure was similar to the two previous clearances on Tarajal and Trampolín beaches. The migrants were grouped…
Tens of thousands of people marched Sunday through the Belgian capital Brussels to the EU’s headquarters to demand greater action to combat climate change ahead of a major UN summit. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Record heatwaves across Europe this month have raised concerns about the impact that man-made climate change is having on the continent. Delegates from around the globe will gather in the Turkish resort town of Antalya next month for the annual COP gathering. But expectations are low that the meeting will yield any major breakthroughs, as the United States under Donald Trump has disengaged from the process and momentum…
By Euronews Published on 11/10/2026 – 20:27 GMT+2•Updated 20:49 One round was enough. French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann has won the primary of the French social-democratic camp, taking 66.17% of the vote in the first round of a contest that drew 120,787 voters, the organisers announced. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The leader of the Place publique party is far ahead of Socialist Party chief Olivier Faure, who secured 14% of the vote. Ségolène Royal, a prominent Socialist figure and former presidential candidate in 2007, who had hoped to spring a surprise, finished third with less than 8% of the vote. The two other candidates,…
Three weeks into France’s student protests, questions are mounting over whether the demonstrations will fizzle out or evolve into a broader social movement. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The protests and school blockades began in Paris’s suburbs in mid-September, before rapidly spreading nationwide. Dramatic images of students climbing the iconic column at Paris’ Place de la Bastille on Thursday managed to capture audiences worldwide. The scenes carried historical weight given that the square stands on the site of the former Bastille fortress and state prison, stormed by Parisians on 14 July 1789 in a defining moment of the French Revolution. After its demolition,…
Europe paid around €7.88 billion for liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia’s Arctic energy project in the first nine months of 2026 despite Brussels’ efforts to phase out gas from Moscow, according to the campaign group Urgewald. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The figures, compiled by Urgewald using data from the market intelligence firm Kpler, expose just how reliant the EU remains on Russian energy, with a record of 12.18 million tonnes reaching European ports between January and September this year. The EU has been trying to wean itself off Russian energy for a while, and this year introduced a number of measures…
US President Donald Trump said it was time for Ukraine to get a new president, claiming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not tried sufficiently to bring an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals and for some reason he never does,” Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for Tennessee on Saturday. The statement was welcomed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top economic negotiator, who called Trump’s remarks as “iconic and historic”. “President Trump joins the many who…
Published on 09/10/2026 – 15:25 GMT+2•Updated 19:55 Hundreds of youths faced off with riot police in the streets of Brussels on Friday in chaotic scenes on the sidelines of a workers’ march, with officers firing water cannons and tear gas at the crowd. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Some 30,000 people turned out for the national strike against government austerity measures, police said, with tensions running high after days of student protests inspired by those in France. Dozens of protesters, many of them young, dressed in black and wearing masks, threw rocks and firecrackers at police at the central Brussels railway station, before…
After a first day disrupted by a cyberattack that slowed the voting process, the French centre-left primary is back on track, organisers said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By midday on Saturday, 87,841 ballots had been cast, representing 62.6% of the 140,282 registered voters. At 7 p.m. on Friday, only 20,000 people had managed to vote. Turnout will be crucial in gauging the success of this primary, which is held entirely online, as well as an indicator of the legitimacy the winning candidate will carry into the race for the Élysée Palace. Other political forces are already well entrenched in the presidential race,…
Published on 10/10/2026 – 19:14 GMT+2 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez kicked off his election campaign for the 29 November election in Dos Hermanas, Seville, where more than 5,000 people gathered to hear him speak. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The choice of that town is no coincidence, as it is the largest city in Andalusia where the Socialists remain in power following the most recent regional elections. It was there in 2017 that Sánchez began his bid to secure the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party’s (PSOE) general secretariat. His campaigns in 2019 and 2023 also began in what Alejandro Moyano, deputy secretary for…
Published on 10/10/2026 – 11:24 GMT+2•Updated 12:38 Russian strikes on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 15 people, including three children, and injured 16 others on Saturday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (DSNS) said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Medical staff are doing everything they can to help everyone,” Ivan Fedorov, the regional governor, wrote in a post on Telegram. Search and rescue operations are ongoing. Ukrainian national police said Russian forces had targeted residential areas of the city with five guided aerial bombs early on Saturday, with two of them striking blocks of flats. The DSNS reported that an aerial…