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Claims that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has escaped to Berlin amid the Iran war, which was sparked by US and Israeli airstrikes, have swamped social media platforms. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT On Saturday evening, the same day that the airstrikes took place, flight-tracking data showed that Israel’s government plane had landed at Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport. Online, users claimed that Israeli Netanyahu was on board the flight. Some posts accused him of having fled the country following the start of coordinated US and Israeli strikes on Iran. One post, with more than 1.5 million views, claimed to have tracked Netanyahu to a…
Published on 03/03/2026 – 12:57 GMT+1•Updated 13:06 Reza Pahlavi, son of the last Iranian Shah and one of the main leaders of the opposition to the Tehran regime, could soon address the members of the European Parliament. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His name is included on a provisional list that the Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs has drawn up to organise an exchange of views on the current situation in the country. The list, obtained by Euronews, is provisional, and is set to be confirmed on Wednesday afternoon. It features seven people, among them lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi…
Published on 03/03/2026 – 10:07 GMT+1 The Russian Central Bank has filed a lawsuit against the European Union for the indefinite immobilisation of its sovereign assets, which the bloc approved last year in a bid to strengthen its leverage in ongoing talks to end the war in Ukraine and prevent Moscow from tapping into the funds for its own profit. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The assets are worth about €210 billion, with €185 billion, held at Euroclear, a Brussels-based depository already sued by Moscow. The legal action was submitted to the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg on 27 February, but it was…
German public broadcaster ZDF recalled a US correspondent in late February after an AI-generated clip appeared in a report on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The broadcaster apologised for using the clip, which depicted children clinging to their mother as she is arrested by ICE agents. The video held a Sora watermark, a clear indication that it was created by OpenAI’s video tool. The Cube, Euronews’ fact-checking team, found that the video is one of thousands of AI-generated clips of ICE agents that are flooding social media, many without clear labelling and collectively amassing millions of…
Published on 02/03/2026 – 13:24 GMT+1•Updated 13:26 Ali Khamenei is dead, killed in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on Tehran Saturday during Operation Epic Fury. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His rule was built on a unique doctrine that gave him absolute religious and political control. It allowed him to bypass the parliament, the judiciary, and even the president, giving him the final say on absolutely everything. Then there is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or IRGC. These 150,000 elite troops answered only to him. They act as the regime’s enforcer and a vast business conglomerate, an “empire within an empire” if you will,…
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković insisted on Monday that the European Union’s position on the events unfolding in the Middle East was “very clear and unified” despite the negative reaction that greeted a statement released by Brussels on Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We shall continue consultations,” Plenković told Euronews’ flagship morning programme Europe Today. **”**I think that all the statements which were issued so far, but for maybe one or two (member states) were very, very clear and unified.” Following a virtual meeting of EU foreign ministers on Sunday afternoon, the bloc’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja…
The United States and Israel’s “unilateral action” in Iran “doesn’t have backing from the United Nations’ Charter or international law,” Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has told Euronews’ flagship morning programme Europe Today. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking live on Monday morning, Albares also condemned Iran’s retaliatory strikes against several other nations in the Middle East as “unjustified”, calling on the European Union to be a “voice of reason” amid a dangerous escalation. “We have condemned every human rights violation from the Iranian regime and we are with the people of Iran. We want to protect them, we want to protect…
Published on 27/02/2026 – 12:13 GMT+1•Updated 02/03/2026 – 8:01 GMT+1 Card payments are gaining ground among Europeans: they accounted for 57% of non-cash payments in 2025. Yet the EU’s level of dependency on foreign-owned payment schemes has never been higher. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The non-interoperability of national payment schemes leaves 13 out of 21 eurozone countries highly dependent on US giants, most notably Visa and Mastercard, which processed 47% of the eurozone’s card payment value in 2025. The lack of a pan-European payment system contributes to the single market’s fragmentation, heavily affecting Europe’s competitiveness and impacting citizens’ day-to-day transactions. As EU-US…
Israeli minister Gideon Sa’ar said Europe “does not have unified position” on what role it should play in Iran as European ministers sought to establish a joint approach Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT As Israel and the United States conducted a joint military strike on Iran, leading to the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Europe was kept on the sidelines. EU member states did not participate in the operation and, in some cases, they were not informed prior as it is customary among strategic allies. Asked whether Israel sought to keep Europe on the margins, Sa’ar said internal divisions within…
Published on 01/03/2026 – 21:42 GMT+1•Updated 21:54 The Foreign Ministers of the European Union said they are taking all necessary steps to ensure the safety of EU citizens in the Middle East and warned that further escalation could threaten the region. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The ministers participated in a video call with High Representative Kaja Kallas and released a joint statement after the three-hour-long conversation. An unknown number of European nationals are stranded in Iran and in the wider region, as Israel and the US started bombing Iran on Saturday. In retaliation for the attack and the death of Ali Khamenei,…