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By Michaela Küchler, Secretary General of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Published on 02/08/2026 – 6:45 GMT+2 The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. Victims of persecution can be lost twice: first when their lives are taken, and then when their names are quietly mislaid by history. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT For decades, one of the most haunting images of Nazi persecution was known simply as the “girl with the headscarf”. She was filmed looking through the closing doors of a train leaving the Westerbork transit camp…
Published on 02/08/2026 – 14:58 GMT+2•Updated 14:59 A joint operation involving the Guardia Civil, the autonomous police forces of the Basque Country and Catalonia (Ertzaintza and Mossos d’Esquadra) has led to the arrest in Guipúzcoa, a region near the northern border with France, of a 17-year-old Spanish national. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The three police forces consider him to be the main figure in Spain for the neonazi, paedophile and satanist 764 network. This organisation, which, according to the investigation, has for months been generating public alarm through threats targeting educational centres, town councils, libraries and other public and private entities. Between…
The leader of the UK’s hard-right Restore Britain party has offered to partner with Reform UK’s Nigel Farage in an effort to defeat Britain’s left wing – if Farage agrees to certain conditions. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In a video posted to social media on Sunday, Rupert Lowe called on Farage to put “personalities” and “past disagreements” aside and work together to unite what he described as a “hopelessly divided” right. Lowe, who was a member of parliament for Reform until 2025, when he was kicked out of the party, outlined five points that he said they would have to agree on…
Published on 02/08/2026 – 15:46 GMT+2•Updated 15:51 Italian vessel Thaon di Revel boarded a Russian shadow fleet tanker to inspect it in international waters near Pantelleria, an island located between Sicily and Tunisia. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The inspection was carried out by the Italian navy on Sunday morning, 2 August, as part of the Operation EUNAVFOR MED IRINI, the European Union mission in the Mediterranean monitoring arms and oil trafficking. The tanker Toa Payoh, which is subject to European Union sanctions and belongs to the so-called Russian ‘shadow fleet’, has undergone nationality verification, which for ships is determined by the flag…
Published on 02/08/2026 – 14:11 GMT+2 New information from several military and civilian intelligence sources suggests that the Spanish government had advance warning of the risk of a mass arrival of migrants in the North African exclave of Ceuta this week. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Intelligence alerts were issued over several days, including in the hours immediately before tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco, sources said. Intelligence services had warned that King Mohammed VI was likely to make a “gesture of magnanimity” at the border to coincide with Morocco’s Throne Day celebrations. Those initial warnings were followed by reports of…
While France has managed to contain its wildfires in the Bordeaux region and in the southeast, Greece struggles to stop the multiple fires in the greater Athens region and on the Cephalonia island. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Strong winds have been spreading the fires across the country for days, which have dramatically increased the damage toll. Blazes are sparking back up in Spain’s Zamora region and in the eastern region of Castellón, but most of the fires are contained or extinguished. Winds fueling Greek wildfires Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece had faced “extreme weather conditions and winds” that often reached 100…
By Gael Camba & AFP Published on 02/08/2026 – 7:55 GMT+2•Updated 7:55 An explosion Saturday at a Moscow restaurant that killed three people and wounded 21 others was a bombing, Russia’s national anti-terrorism committee said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “A homemade explosive device blew up at a restaurant in Kudrinskaya Square in Moscow, killing three people,” said the committee, quoted by the Tass state news agency. The three people killed were a woman carrying the device into the restaurant, a security agent who stopped her and a customer. Telegram channel Baza, known for its ties with Russian security forces, first talked about a gas explosion…
Published on 02/08/2026 – 10:49 GMT+2•Updated 10:54 A fire broke out at a Wildberries warehouse in Russia’s Samara region on Sunday following an attack, the company’s press service has said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In a post on Telegram, the Russian online retailer said there were currently no reported casualties and that “logistics chains have been reorganised.” “The receipt of deliveries and dispatch of orders are now being handled at other facilities,” it added. Video footage circulating on social media appears to show a large blaze at the warehouse, with flames engulfing the building and huge plumes of black smoke billowing into…
Published on 02/08/2026 – 10:21 GMT+2 Deepfakes and other AI-generated content must be labelled from Sunday, as the European Union’s sweeping artificial intelligence transparency rules kick in. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The goal? To make sure Europeans immediately know whether the online content they see is real or fake. The EU’s comprehensive AI law enters into force in stages. From Sunday, companies must ensure their AI systems like chatbots make it clear to users they are AI, or when an image or text has been created using AI, there must be a label saying so. This can be done by integrating watermarks…
Published on 02/08/2026 – 9:15 GMT+2 A light aircraft carrying tourists to view Peru’s Nazca Lines crashed on Saturday, killing all 13 people on board, according to authorities and local media. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Cessna Caravan C-208 involved in the incident, operated by Peruvian airline Aerodiana, had taken off at around 12:10 pm local time on Saturday from Pisco airport for a sightseeing flight over the world-famous geoglyphs. “At approximately 1 pm, when the aircraft was flying near the town of Socos, the crew reported an emergency to the Nazca airfield control tower, after which all radio contact was lost,”…