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After two days of searching, a winning €1 million lottery ticket that had been mistakenly thrown away was recovered intact amid six tonnes of rubbish on Tuesday in Bitonto, near Bari in southern Italy’s Puglia region. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Roberto Nicola Toscano, the director of Sanb, a company responsible for waste collection in the region, told the story to the Italian news agency ANSA. The anonymous winner had discarded the ticket at a local tobacconist after a self-service lottery terminal displayed the message “not payable.” Under the rules of the lottery, retailers can only pay out smaller prizes directly. Larger winnings…
By Christina Thykjaer Published on 04/08/2026 – 22:11 GMT+2•Updated 05/08/2026 – 13:00 GMT+2 Spain’s Interior Ministry has denied confirming reports published by Spanish news outlets El Español and The Objective, which claimed that security services had identified several people investigated for jihadism-related offences among the migrants who arrived in Ceuta last week. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “At no point have we confirmed those reports,” a ministry spokesperson told Euronews. The ministry added that “Spain’s security forces carry out continuous work to monitor and combat jihadist terrorism throughout the country, not only in Ceuta.” However, it neither confirmed nor denied the accuracy of the…
Published on 05/08/2026 – 12:47 GMT+2 Ukraine was unable to shoot down a single Russian missile during an overnight attack that left at least 17 people dead in Kyiv and the surrounding region, according to a daily air force report published on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Russian army sent 115 drones and fired 28 high-speed missiles, including ballistic ones, the air force said, at a time officials have lamented a drastic shortage of anti-ballistic munitions. President Voloydmyr Zelenskyy confirmed in a post on social media that “the main target of the attack was the warehouses of civilian enterprises, there were…
Greek officials and residents of a region west of the capital Athens began to assess the damage suffered by homes, businesses and farmland on Wednesday scorched by a wildfire. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is due to chair a cabinet meeting later on Wednesday to determine compensation for those affected by the fire, his office said. Meanwhile, teams from the Environment and Civil Protection ministries arrived to assess communities about 50 kilometres northwest of Athens, where residents have been returning after preventive evacuations, public broadcaster Ertnews reported. The blaze blackened more than 14,000 hectares in just five days…
Flights at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport, a major cargo hub, were disrupted during the night after a sighting of a flying object was reported and another object was found near a runway, police said Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Several flights, including one passenger plane, were diverted to other airports after the sighting of the flying object near the airport shortly before midnight. Police spokesperson Olaf Hoppe told Euronews that, at the same time as the sighting, an object was found in the area of the southern runway which the federal police examined. He declined to confirm that a drone had been sighted.…
A 52‑year‑old vegetable seller in Kherson has described how a Russian drone pursued him around his market van before detonating beside him. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT An attack captured on National Police CCTV cameras was described by Ukrainian officials as a wider pattern of “human safari” strikes on civilians. Yuriy says the day began like any other. He and his wife drove in to set up their stall, parking their van at a farmers’ market. “We had just started laying out the vegetables. I had only set up the umbrellas and begun taking the crates out. My wife was there too,” the…
Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens more in Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight, authorities said on Wednesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks on Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Journalists with the AFP news agency heard explosions in Kyiv after midnight, following Ukrainian air force warnings of incoming ballistic missiles. One journalist reported seeing dark smoke and the acrid smell of burning lingering in the air hours later. Kyiv’s military administration said the missile and drone barrage slammed into residential buildings and several warehouses. “The enemy is once again deliberately striking civilians…
By Euronews Published on 04/08/2026 – 6:35 GMT+2•Updated 7:14 A drone strike on an industrial zone in the Chekhov municipal district outside the Russian capital killed five people and wounded six others, Moscow region’s governor said on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “In the Novoselki industrial zone, several fires broke out following a drone strike… five people were killed and a further six wounded,” Andrey Vorobyov said on Telegram, adding that firefighters had extinguished the largest blaze, which was at a warehouse. Our journalists are working on this story and will update it as soon as more information becomes available.
Europe is facing another summer of devastating wildfires. Data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) on July 30 shows that more than 434.976 hectares have burned since the start of 2026. So far, 1.407 fires have been detected, releasing an estimated 17.98 million tonnes of CO₂. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “These fires are out of capacity,” said a European Commission official, describing how wildfires were spreading faster than firefighting efforts could match. The EU has spent the last two years building what it calls a more serious, integrated wildfire strategy with new funding, a new fleet, a new Cyprus hub,…
By Manuel Ribeiro  & euronews Published on 04/08/2026 – 9:40 GMT+2•Updated 13:45 Russia’s state news agency reports that Russian forces have shot down a ‘rare’ Portuguese-made drone operated by the Ukrainian army. The Tekever AR3 was brought down by a Russian anti-drone battalion in the border region of Bryansk, the unit’s commander told TASS. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “An enemy reconnaissance drone entered our sector. We were surprised because we had never seen anything like it. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) had a different structure at the tail and on the wings. When we reached the crash site, we found it was a Portuguese…