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A 29-year-old American tourist has died after being hit by lightning while hiking on Mount Etna in Sicily. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The man was struck on Sunday as a severe thunderstorm swept across the volcano. He was rushed to a hospital in Catania by a firefighter helicopter but was pronounced dead. His identity has not yet been made public. An emergency call came in shortly before 8 pm. He had been in the isolated Rocca Capra area of the active volcano, in the Valle del Bove, around 1,400 metres above sea level. According to preliminary information from authorities, the man is…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 20:42 GMT+2 The King of Norway, Harald V, has been admitted to hospital and placed on sick leave for two weeks, with Crown Prince Haakon taking over as regent in the meantime, according to a statement from the royal palace. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It said the monarch, 89, has been battling haemolytic anaemia, a blood disorder characterised by the premature destruction of red blood cells. “In recent weeks, the King has been treated with cortisone,” the palace’s statement reads. “This has led to fluid retention in the body, which requires hospital treatment.” Harald has been King of…
Another mass recall, once again linked to software and safety. Stellantis is recalling around 955,000 vehicles from the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram brands because a problem with the infotainment system software may prevent the rear-view camera images from being displayed correctly when reversing. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The recall covers around 848,000 vehicles in the United States, 83,000 in Canada, 8,000 in Mexico and roughly another 15,000 in markets outside North America. It affects various 2026 and 2027 model-year vehicles, including the Chrysler Pacifica, Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid and Voyager, Dodge Charger, Jeep Cherokee, Compass, Gladiator, Grand Cherokee, Grand Wagoneer and Wrangler,…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 8:04 GMT+2 More than 31,000 people, including several MPs, have signed a petition urging UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to hold a public inquiry into alleged media harassment of the late academic Jason Arday, organisers said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The petition was launched by the Good Law Project activist group after Arday, who was appointed three years ago as the youngest-ever black professor at Cambridge University, was found dead on Friday. The project had been supporting Arday since he resigned earlier this month from the university and as a fellow of Jesus College after both institutions launched…
By Tatiana Mindekova, Policy Advisor at the global energy think tank ‘Ember’. She holds a Master’s degree in Environment, Politics, and Society from University College London. Published on 17/08/2026 – 16:03 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. The EU is experiencing its second energy crisis in four years. Countries and households are feeling the impact of dependence on fossil fuel imports, as well as exposure to volatile global gas and oil markets. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Domestic clean electricity can help break this cycle. For…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 15:10 GMT+2 At least three people were killed and a fourth is in a critical condition after a shooting on Sunday evening in Isla Cristina in the southern Spanish province of Huelva. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to local media, the attack took place in the Rocío neighbourhood, where a man turned up on a motorbike at a family home and opened fire on its occupants before fleeing. Among the dead are a pregnant woman, one of her children and the woman’s mother. The three bodies were left lying in the middle of the street after the burst…
This decision stems from the European Commission’s Tobacco Control Framework Evaluation, which found that existing legislation is increasingly outdated. While smoking rates have fallen from 28 percent to 24 percent of adults across the EU, around one in four Europeans still smoke and roughly 700.000 people die from tobacco-related diseases each year. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The proposed revision of the Tobacco Taxation Directive would increase minimum excise duties on cigarettes by 139 percent, introduce EU-wide taxes on new nicotine products for the first time, and extend the bloc’s tracking system to raw tobacco to combat illicit trade. Consumption is shifting away…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 13:51 GMT+2 Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence said at the weekend that Kyiv’s forces had hit Wildberries’ single largest warehouse, a 250,000-square-metre complex at the Koledino industrial park in Podolsk in the Moscow region, around 420 kilometres from the border. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Seven logistics hubs belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, have now been struck and knocked out of action since the campaign began in July. Wildberries confirmed the strike had sparked a fire and forced it to reroute its supply chains, just as Ukrainian forces also struck a second depot in nearby Domodedovo on the…
Germany is pushing back against a European Commission plan to tax electricity at a lower rate than natural gas, arguing that Brussels is seeking to use electricity-market legislation to impose rules that should instead be addressed through EU tax law, according to a letter seen by Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Berlin argues that the Commission is seeking to introduce significant tax provisions through a legal instrument that could be adopted by qualified majority, rather than the unanimity traditionally required for EU tax measures, as Brussels races to electrify its industry, transport and energy sectors amid high electricity prices. “I have significant…
The European Commission seems to have been monitoring unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) under the radar since at least 2023, according to a document from the Commission’s defence department seen by Euronews, which pertains to sky and space observations in Malaysia. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “We are getting better at seeing it (UAPs) and better identifying it as our technological capacities improve, but we need to get even better,” the letter read, signalling the EU executive is actively monitoring the phenomenon more than officially stated and seems keen to investigate it. Formerly known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs), the term UAP was introduced…