Author: Press Room

For years, Ukrainians have lived with a war raging not only along the front line, but above their heads. In Kyiv, the battle in the sky has become part of daily life, measured in air-raid alerts, the sound of air defence and the explosions that follow. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT At an air-defence position protecting the capital, the work begins before anything appears overhead. Soldiers prepare their weapons and scan for threats that can arrive at radically different speeds and from different directions. The challenge is no longer simply the number of weapons Russia can put into the air. Its attacks increasingly…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 14:17 GMT+2 The Bulgarian parliament passed a law on Wednesday aiming to better protect journalists, activists and others from abusive lawsuits designed to censor or intimidate critics. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In doing so, Bulgaria has gone beyond the minimum European Union requirement in a bid to protect the media in a country where the freedom of the press has come under sustained pressure. Known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP), the use of legal action is intended to silence or financially bankrupt reporters, whistleblowers and rights groups, rather than win the case outright. Most SLAPPs are…

A migrant in a wheelchair, with serious injuries to his ankles, arms and torso, says he was pushed by soldiers from a height of more than six metres. When Amnesty International spoke to him in Ceuta, he complained that he had not even been given an X-ray and had only received an emergency bandage. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His is one of the accounts included in an investigation that describes beatings, humiliations and summary expulsions from Cueta and which, according to the organisation, reveals abuses that could amount to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Blows with batons and boots,…

Ukraine is already using its new interceptor technology in combat and is now racing to scale up production before the hardest part of the winter, according to Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Budanov told Euronews in an exclusive interview that the technology is intercepting Russian jet-powered drones in most cases, but that producing it on a large enough scale remains the main challenge. The technology could also become available to countries that have already established drone partnerships with Ukraine under agreements known as “Drone Deals.” Ukraine has signed such agreements with a…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 13:08 GMT+2 The UK could “go all the way” and rejoin the European Union, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said, as his government prepares to weigh a range of options for redefining the country’s relationship with the bloc. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking to the BBC a day after he told a Labour Party conference that he would present “options” for the future EU-UK relationship, Burnham acknowledged that reversing Brexit would be one of the proposals under consideration. “We could stay as we are. We could look at what George Osborne has said about a customs union,…

Published on 30/09/2026 – 11:18 GMT+2 Russian strikes killed at least four people in and around Ukraine’s capital on Wednesday, authorities said, in a barrage of attacks which hit the city’s energy infrastructure and cut power. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Heavy explosions rang out across Kyiv throughout a night of almost continuous air alerts warning people to take cover in bomb shelters from ballistic and cruise missiles backed up by drones. Kyiv, home to some 3 million people, has faced several nights of sustained aerial barrages, as well as increasing daytime strikes in an escalation of the more than four-and-a-half-year-long war. In…

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya believes change in Russia could begin with change in Belarus, arguing that her country’s opposition movement is “more consolidated” than its Russian counterpart. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Tsikhanouskaya said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “testing the borders” of the European Union and “watching the reaction” from Western countries. She urged Europe “not to panic, but to be prepared”, stressing that she is not encouraging Europe to attack, but to be ready to respond to a possible attack.

Published on 29/09/2026 – 12:11 GMT+2•Updated 12:22 A school attack by a pupil in northwestern Slovakia on Tuesday left one 61-year-old woman dead and another woman and a child wounded, rescue workers told the AFP news agency. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The two injured, including a 44-year-old “with a stab wound to the chest,” were admitted to hospital following the attack at the school in Staskov, Emergency Medical Services Operations Centre spokeswoman Petra Klimesova said. Slovak media said the dead woman was a teacher and the two people wounded were another teacher and a pupil. The attacker was a teenage pupil in…

Published on 29/09/2026 – 12:53 GMT+2 French teenagers set fire to rubbish bins and hurled projectiles in clashes with police on Tuesday, as they kept up a blockade of some high schools demanding better conditions. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT High school students have staged protests outside their schools since last week over grievances including timetables, class sizes and a shortage of teachers as well as overheated classrooms in the wake of the recent heatwaves. The movement in the lycées, which handle the final years of school in France, started in the Ile-de-France region around Paris, where blockades in some 10 schools were…

The Spanish government on Tuesday approved two new decrees aimed at tackling the country’s housing crisis. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Measures included in the decrees range from stronger protection against evictions and limits on speculative purchases to tax incentives, as well as new rules for renting and zero-interest financing to help people buy their first home. The move comes at a time of growing public pressure over soaring housing costs and mounting difficulties for people looking both to rent and buy. Spain’s Minister for Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, has described housing as “the main problem facing Spaniards” and presented the…