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Published on 16/06/2026 – 16:36 GMT+2 A Swedish court sentenced a 61-year-old man to four years and five months in prison on Tuesday for having “ruthlessly exploited” his wife to have sex with scores of men for payment. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The man was convicted of “aggravated pimping” as well as attempted rape, assault and issuing threats, as well as a minor drug offence, the court said in a statement, noting the actions took place over three years. “The district court has found that the man was the one who initiated the woman’s entry into prostitution and was also the person…

Published on 16/06/2026 – 17:12 GMT+2 Belarus leader Aliaksandr Lukashenka said his country poses no military threat to Ukraine and claimed his earlier statements were only in response to what Lukashenka said were threats from Kyiv to Minsk. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “If (Ukrainian President) Volodymyr Oleksandrovych (Zelenskyy) was offended, I apologise to him for these words,” Lukashenka said. “Perhaps I shouldn’t have said that, given that he is after all at war. Perhaps I shouldn’t have spoken so bluntly about it. But, on the other hand, he must understand that, as we often say: ‘you reap what you sow,'” Lukashenka said.…

A Russian artist well-known for satirising President Vladimir Putin has been shot dead in eastern Poland, officials said on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “An investigation is being conducted…into the murder of a 44-year-old citizen of the Russian Federation…known in the media as Semyon Skrepetsky,” a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Lublin, Marcin Kozak, told journalists. Two Belarusian nationals have been arrested in connection with the killing, he added. They were detained in the vicinity of the Belarusian consulate in Biała Podlaska in eastern Poland, where the killing took place. According to Polish officials, Skrepetsky, whose real name is Robert Kuzovkov,…

Lithuania’s governing coalition named a new prime minister on Tuesday, after a coalition reshuffle that expelled a populist junior partner. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The appointment of Mindaugas Sinkevičius, the head of the Social Democratic party who briefly served as economy minister, was confirmed by Lithuanian president Gitanas Nausėda. Sinkevičius will replace current prime minister Inga Ruginienė, also a Social Democrat. “I confirm my commitment to take responsibility for forming the new Government and to serve as Prime Minister, ” Sinkevičius said in a Facebook post, adding that he was acting “with full awareness of the expectations of the people.” The Social…

In 2025, 9.1% of young people aged between 18 and 24 in the EU dropped out of school and did not pursue further education or training, according to the latest Eurostat figures. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Across EU countries, the proportion of early leavers in 2025 ranged from 2.1% in Croatia to 15.5% in Romania. More young men than women tend to leave education and training early. However, there has been a downward trend in the number of those dropping out, for both sexes. In the past 10 years, the share of young men decreased from 12.5% in 2015 to 10.6% in…

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to adopt the EU-US deal struck last summer by US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Turnberry, Scotland. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The final greenlight needed to implement the agreement comes as Trump threatened on Monday to impose tariffs on French wine and champagne if Paris did not remove its digital tax on US Big Tech. However, Trump’s latest threats of a trade war with EU countries did not prevent lawmakers from approving the deal. Four hundred and fortyMEPs voted in favour, 151 against, and 50 abstained in the vote…

Published on 16/06/2026 – 12:07 GMT+2 Russian authorities confirmed the strike caused damage to the facility in the Kapotnya district of southeast Moscow, though no casualties were reported. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced the incident on Russia’s state-run Maks platform, saying that “one of the drones damaged a Moscow oil refinery facility” and that there were no injuries. He added that 60 drones targeting Moscow had been intercepted on Tuesday alone — what the TASS state news agency described as one of the largest barrages aimed at the Russian capital this year. Local authorities closed the area around…

After years of negotiations between EU member states, the new Pact on Migration and Asylum has finally come online. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The package, adopted in May 2024 and which officially entered into force on 12 June, is designed to strengthen border procedures and reform the bloc’s asylum system. The regulation has been a prime target for false and misleading claims. One of its most debated elements is a new solidarity mechanism intended to support member states facing the highest migratory pressure: in recent years, countries such as Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Spain have received the largest numbers of migrants and…

The plan, unanimously adopted, aims to systematically dismantle drug-related organised crime. To do this, it asks major EU ports to form alliances and coordinate more closely in tackling organised crime. It will also target trafficking finances and introduce blanket bans on certain chemicals used to produce synthetic drugs. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT At the health level, it proposes city-level monitoring, take-home overdose reversal medicines, and increased funding for treatment services aimed at marginalised groups most at risk of drug-related harm. It is a response to a growing crisis in the EU. A recent report by the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) revealed…

Published on 16/06/2026 – 8:01 GMT+2 On today’s show: ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Euronews’ Maria Tadeo reports from the G7 summit in Évian, where leaders are seeking clarity on the US-Iran framework deal and discussing the war in Ukraine, energy security and the future of the Strait of Hormuz. Euronews’ Mared Gwyn Jones is in Luxembourg as the European Union officially opens accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, marking a historic step in both countries’ paths towards membership. Our NATO correspondent Shona Murray joins us from Sweden, embedded in a major air and missile defence exercise involving 20 allied nations, as the…