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Published on 08/07/2026 – 15:12 GMT+2•Updated 16:54 British anti-immigrant politician Nigel Farage faces the embarrassing prospect of going head-to-head with perennial joke candidate Count Binface in a snap election after he decided to quit parliament. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT His surprise move threatened to backfire on Wednesday after other heavyweight parties confirmed they would not contest a by-election. Count Binface, a self-described “intergalactic space warrior” is the only other person to have said so far that they would run. What did Farage announce? In a televised address on Tuesday, the leader of the hard-right Reform UK party said he was resigning as…
Published on 08/07/2026 – 15:37 GMT+2•Updated 18:17 US president Donald Trump said the US plans to provide Ukraine with licence to produce US-made Patriot air defence interceptors. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump said Washington would give Kyiv “the right to make Patriots”, referring to the long‑range air defence missiles Kyiv has repeatedly requested to protect its cities and energy grid from Russian strikes. “We’ll show them how to do it,” Trump said, describing the system as “very complex” but insisting Kyiv would “figure out the complexity quickly”. He said US…
At least two girls have been seriously wounded and a 16-year-old suspect arrested after an attack at a secondary school in the southern German state of Bavaria on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The perpetrator appeared to have deliberately targeted the Welfen grammar school in the town of Schongau in a suspected “rampage,” a police spokesperson told the AFP news agency. She was unable to confirm press reports which claimed the assailant used a knife in the attack. Local police said on their X account that “a suspected perpetrator has been arrested,” later adding that this was a “16-year-old boy.” Initially the…
Published on 08/07/2026 – 21:54 GMT+2 More than 6,500 people gathered at dawn in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday to set off on a march in memory of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT They came from around the country as well as from abroad to pay tribute not only to the victims but also to those who walked for days to save their lives in July 1995. Ibis Husejnovic is here “to feel the pain, to feel the silence,” he explained. Raifa Duzic said she joined the march to “feel a small part of what those who…
For two years, farmers’ anger has been spilling over into protests across Europe, amid frustration over high operational costs, stringent green rules, and new European Union trade deals that farmers say put their livelihoods at risk. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Now, the challenges they face seem to be multiplying. In this episode of The Ring, Euronews’ weekly debate show, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Ciaran Mulloly of the Renew Europe group and Pekka Toveri of the European People’s Party (EPP) go head-to-head on how the EU can continue to protect farmers in a more complex geopolitical climate. For Ciaran Mulloly, the…
US President Donald Trump offered NATO allies an unexpected warm embrace as they wrapped up a key summit on Wednesday after earlier lashing out at them over their response to his war on Iran. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It was an abrupt swing from antagonism to affection within the space of a few short hours, illustrating the wide range of emotions exhibited by the mercurial US leader. “It was amazing, actually. The unity in that room was incredible, really a love, it was sort of pretty wild,” Trump told reporters after the closed-door meeting of 32 leaders at the NATO summit in…
Barcelona registered a maximum temperature of 40.5C on Wednesday, its highest figure in 112 years of records, weather agencies said as another heatwave struck Spain. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The provisional reading at the Fabra Observatory on Barcelona’s western outskirts broke the previous record of 40C set on July 30, 2024, regional weather monitor Meteocat said on X. At Barcelona’s El Prat airport, which is almost at sea level and sits next to the Mediterranean, the thermometer hit 37.7C, the highest reading in records going back to 1924, national weather agency AEMET said. “Barcelona has recorded the hottest day,” confirmed AEMET spokesman…
By Jeroen Lenaers MEP (EPP, NL) is a member of the European Parliament’s committee on civil liberties, justice and home affairs. Published on 08/07/2026 – 17:53 GMT+2•Updated 17:59 The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. The EU has just raised the bar globally for child sexual abuse legislation that centers the experiences of survivors and safeguards access to justice. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT After two years of intense negotiations, the European Council and the European Parliament just made history in the fight against child sexual abuse in…
Marine Le Pen’s run for the French presidency is not good news for opponents of the National Rally. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to several centrist and left-wing members of the European Parliament contacted by Euronews, the veteran French far-right leader will have more appeal to voters than Jordan Bardella, the young MEP whom many expected to replace her as RN’s candidate should she have been deemed ineligible to run. After Le Pen announced her intention to run in France’s 2027 presidential election despite her fraud conviction, with Bardella positioned as a candidate for the prime minister’s office, many in France have…
Published on 08/07/2026 – 15:41 GMT+2 Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain, will receive a conditional pardon in recognition of a “profound injustice,” Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy announced in parliament on Wednesday, after a decades-long campaign by her family. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Ellis, a 28-year-old nightclub hostess, was hanged in July 1955 for shooting dead her racing driver lover David Blakely as he came out of the Magdala pub in London. The case gripped Britain and was turned into the 1985 film “Dance with a Stranger” starring Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett. A mother of two…