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By Méabh Mc Mahon & Aaron Casey Published on 04/06/2026 – 10:50 GMT+2•Updated 11:26 In the wake of Israel and Lebanon’s ceasefire agreement, Lebanon’s Culture Minister Ghassane Salamé told Euronews’ flagship morning show Europe Today that he hopes it will be more “genuine” than the previous one, which he said, “was not even a truce”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “The agreement is still fresh, so it’s probably too early to decide how serious it is probably too early to decide how serious it is,” Salamé said. But, he added, it was “not very helpful” that some Israeli cabinet ministers had already rejected the agreement. Nonetheless,…
Two men have been charged following violent protests over the murder of teenager Henry Nowak in the UK. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Hundreds of protesters clashed with Police on Tuesday in the port city of Southampton, hurling bricks and bins as they chanted “Henry, Henry”. Hampshire Police said 11 officers and one police dog were injured in the violence, which broke out after bodycam footage of Nowak’s final moments was publicly released. Nowak, 18, was returning home from a night out with friends in December when he was attacked and stabbed multiple times by Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old Sikh man. Digwa was…
Cyprus and Kazakhstan signed five cooperation agreements and pledged to deepen economic ties during the first official visit by a Cypriot president to Kazakhstan, as the two countries opened embassies simultaneously in Astana and Nicosia. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev welcomed his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides in Astana, where they held bilateral talks followed by discussions with government delegations from both countries. The meeting produced memoranda of understanding covering higher education and research, culture, sport, information and communication technologies, cybersecurity and e-government, as well as a separate agreement between the two countries’ chambers of commerce. Tokayev awarded Christodoulides the…
Social media accounts sharing photos of picturesque Scottish landscapes, supporting independence from the United Kingdom, as well as criticising the British government, have, in fact, been deceiving the public. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Researchers from Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub in South Carolina found that a network of accounts sharing this kind of content was, in reality, affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — an elite paramilitary unit long accused of running foreign influence operations. The accounts spent months across X, Instagram and Bluesky cultivating followers and building up online credibility, before they started to spread pro-Iranian propaganda following the onset…
Officials and diplomats in Brussels are growing increasingly pessimistic about the chances of enforcing a full ban on maritime services for Russian tankers, as both internal and external factors weigh against the ambitious proposal. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “It’s not happening,” a diplomat bluntly said. The ban was approved in late April as part of the 20th package of sanctions to cripple Moscow’s war economy. It is designed to prohibit all maritime-related services, including banking, shipping, flagging and insurance, for tankers carrying Russian oil. Crucially, the far-reaching measure was left on hold sine die. The official reason for the pause was a…
By Dr. Alexander Wolf, Leiter des Hauptstadtbüros der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Published on 04/06/2026 – 9:15 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. Germany has lost the election to the UN Security Council. This is not a foreign policy drama, but a symptom. It is not the seat itself that weighs heavily, but what the defeat reveals about Germany’s position in the world. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Annalena Baerbock, of all people, had to announce the result. As President of the UN General Assembly, the former foreign minister…
Published on 04/06/2026 – 9:00 GMT+2 Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovia, North Macedonia Kosovo are at various stages of trying to join the bloc. Geographically, the region is completely surrounded by the EU. For nearly two decades, a period of relative calm kept enlargement on the backburner, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shattered that peace, turning expansion into a critical security priority. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT However, it is also about money. The EU is already the region’s primary trading partner and investor and only last year, the total trade reached over €87 billion. It is a massive, two-way exchange of…
A grey plume of smoke was seen rising over St. Petersburg early on Wednesday, as officials gathered for Russia’s annual economic forum, which Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Ukrainian drones struck energy and military sites in the Russian port city, Russian and Ukrainian authorities reported. The Ukrainian military struck the Petersburg Oil Terminal overnight, roughly 1,100 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X. “Purely military targets at the Kronstadt base were also hit,” Zelenskyy added. “Another target was an enterprise in the Tambov region involved in the production of Russian weapons”. The city’s…
Published on 03/06/2026 – 10:29 GMT+2 A British Treasury minister has called the United Kingdom’s return to the EU “an inevitability”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Lord Spencer Livermore, the financial secretary to the treasury, said on Monday that reversing Brexit was “absolutely” in the UK’s “national economic interest” while also touting the government’s “reset” efforts with Brussels. “Should we in due course reenter the European Union, well of course, my personal view is that that is an inevitability,” he told peers in the House of Lords. “Of course the UK will at one point reenter the European Union”. “In the meantime, we…
Published on 03/06/2026 – 22:05 GMT+2 France and the UK have agreed to extend their “one-in, one-out” migrant returns agreement until 1 October, a French minister said on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The scheme, known as Operation Hillmore, came into force in September last year as part of efforts by London and Paris to tackle illegal migration across the English Channel. Under the arrangement, Britain can return some migrants to France who arrive illegally by small boats and are deemed not to have a right to remain in the UK. In exchange, Britain accepts an equivalent number of asylum seekers from…