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Croatian rescuers said they had found two of the four Portuguese tourists who went missing in an inflatable boat during a storm on Wednesday as the search for the remaining two continues. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The tourists disappeared in the early hours in the Velebit Channel, a stretch of the Adriatic Sea between Croatia’s Velebit mountain range and the popular islands of Krk, Rab and Pag. The area is known for powerful and dangerous winds that frequently disrupt maritime traffic. A woman was found near the island of Krk after almost eight hours in the sea, rescuers said, adding that a…
By Ebru Koksal is a former adviser to FIFA and UEFA, finance and football expert Published on 12/08/2026 – 16:47 GMT+2•Updated 16:56 The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. The withdrawal of the FIFA Forward Enterprise proposal may have ended one controversy. It should not end the governance debate. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The episode raises questions that go far beyond one transaction or one governing body. Who makes football’s biggest decisions? Who is consulted before those decisions are made? And where does independent challenge come from?…
Published on 12/08/2026 – 17:44 GMT+2 NATO Allies expressed solidarity with Romania and Poland at a meeting on Wednesday centred on recent airspace violations for of two of its frontline member states. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Several drones have breached Romanian airspace in recent weeks, with the country’s president Nicușor Dan stating it is “inadmissible and intolerable” for the Kremlin to continue violating the country’s skies. A cruise missile crashed into Polish territory on 29 July, with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk then clarifying the armed unmanned aerial vehicle fell 50 kilometres away from the city of Lublin and was “probably” Russian.…
Three Moroccan nationals who arrived in Ceuta during the recent mass crossing from Morocco have been arrested over their alleged involvement in sexual assault offences, against a backdrop of courts and law-enforcement agencies investigating several complaints filed since the end of July. The alleged victims are also migrants. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The arrests come after several underage Moroccan girls reported having been sexually assaulted after crossing the border and staying in the autonomous Spanish city. By 11 August, the National Police had recorded six complaints lodged by minors, the force confirmed to the maldita.es news portal. Both the complainants and the…
The eruption of Sicil’s Mount Etna volcano, now in its sixth consecutive day, continues to disrupt air traffic in the island at the height of the summer season. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT On Wednesday, Catania–Fontanarossa Airport was forced to suspend all arrivals and departures until 6 pm. According to data from the airport’s tracking system, around 55 outbound flights have been cancelled, on top of roughly 388 departures scrapped between the start of the eruption and the previous day. Dozens of other flights have been rescheduled or diverted to other airports in the region, notably Palermo, Trapani and Comiso. At the latter…
Published on 12/08/2026 – 10:07 GMT+2 Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH) has once again pointed the finger at Spain. In a preliminary report released on 8 August, the council accuses the Spanish security forces of having assaulted and ill-treated some of the migrants who entered Ceuta on 30 and 31 July, when around 80,000 people crossed the border in just 48 hours. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to the document, the Council’s monitoring team gathered testimonies from migrants who had already been returned to Morocco and who all reported assaults by Spanish officers, “especially in places beyond the reach of cameras”,…
France’s presidential election is set for the spring of 2027, and it is already attracting instances of misinformation and alleged foreign interference that have since sparked criminal proceedings. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Researchers from the bot-tracking network AntiBot4Navalny have detected a campaign linked to Matryoshka, a covert influence and disinformation operation aligned with Russia. At first, these posts focused on Gabriel Attal, the former prime minister of France who is running to succeed current president Emmanuel Macron. Attal filed a criminal complaint with French authorities “alleging foreign interference originating from Russian networks”, after fabricated videos impersonating French news outlets targeted him online.…
A spectacular solar eclipse wowed those lucky enough to be on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean in October 2024, but now a different part of the world is preparing to witness the astronomical phenomenon. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This Wednesday (12 August 2026), the moon will pass perfectly between the sun and the Earth, casting its shadow across a narrow swathe of the planet with many parts of Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain, experiencing the total eclipse while millions of Europeans across western Europe will witness a visible partial eclipse. It will take 1.5 hours for the umbra, or moon’s sun-blocking…
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. Robert Schuman and the founding fathers of the European Community understood: those who cooperate economically do not wage war against one another. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT From this conviction emerged our continent’s most successful idea of peace and freedom. The single market was therefore never an end in itself; it was a promise of opportunity, competition and economic strength. ‘Our mother is Dutch. Our father was German’ For me, this isn’t a historical footnote. Our mother is Dutch. Our…
Record temperatures are sweeping across Spain and into Finland. This summer, droughts have spread across Europe, prompting urgent water rationing measures and temporary bans on non-essential water uses. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The World Weather Attribution links current droughts to months of below-average rainfall and record heat between April and June. In 2026 alone, soil moisture deficits are 5 to 11 times more likely. France’s maize harvest is at a 50-year low, and Romania is losing over a million hectares. Reduced water levels in rivers and lakes are affecting tourism and transportation, including on the Danube, which is at its lowest since…