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Published on 08/09/2026 – 22:00 GMT+2•Updated 22:06 Passengers travelling to and from the UK on Tuesday faced severe disruption after a technical glitch affected air traffic control systems. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT More than 1,000 flights have been cancelled so far, according to flight-tracking website Flightradar24, with the issue impacting airports including London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester, and Birmingham. Air traffic control operator NATS said earlier that it had identified a “technical issue” with its flight processing system and that its engineers were on site and working on a solution. “Our system issue is now resolved, we are operating normally and working…

Pupils’ maths and reading skills are declining across the globe, largely due to digitalisation and a drop in recreational reading. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The OECD’s latest PISA report, which measures 15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics, and science skills, found that student performance across OECD countries reached a record low in maths and reading. When looking at EU countries specifically, pupils in Spain, Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta, Greece, Romania, Cyprus, and Bulgaria score below the OECD average in reading, mathematics and science skills. Only Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Austria, Poland and Czechia managed to secure a mean performance above the average. Reading…

Published on 08/09/2026 – 13:31 GMT+2•Updated 13:59 The Hungarian government has ordered 10 Russian diplomats to leave the country over activities described as “unacceptable for diplomats”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The government has not provided further details, but according to press and intelligence reports, Hungary has become a hub for Russian intelligence activities. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Russian ambassador in Budapest that, according to our assessment, 10 employees of the Russian mission engaged in activities in Hungary that are unacceptable for diplomats under the Vienna Convention,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán said in a social media post, adding that…

Published on 08/09/2026 – 18:36 GMT+2•Updated 18:55 Ceuta’s president, Juan Jesús Vivas, has accused Morocco of a “policy of harassment” towards the city and urged the EU to take a tougher stance and fund border security after some 80,000 migrants entered the exclave on 30 July, distancing himself from Spain’s cooperative approach to Rabat. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Vivas met three EU commissioners and several lawmakers in Brussels on Tuesday, urging help to return irregular migrants and restore normality in the exclave, where thousands of third-country nationals, including unaccompanied minors, remain. “Ceuta is on the brink of collapse,” he said. The Ceuta…

Published on 08/09/2026 – 13:44 GMT+2•Updated 13:54 Iceland’s government has lodged a formal protest with the United States after Donald Trump shared a social media map appearing to fold the country into US territory. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to a ministry statement, Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir called in the US ambassador to deliver a firm objection, telling the envoy the map was simply not acceptable. The image, posted Monday, showed a redrawn North America with Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Iceland all shaded in stars and stripes and captioned as a single “United States of America” — with no caption or…

The European Union is making a full-on effort to cut emissions at home, but 35% of its carbon footprint was generated abroad in 2023, according to data from the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and climate consultancy Matière. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The new figures, which show that more than one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions are now linked to global trade, create a political problem for Brussels, which is heavily investing in the decarbonisation of factories, power plants and cars even as the bloc still consumes goods whose production generates substantial emissions abroad. The new Traded Emissions Tracker reveals that in Ireland,…

A quarter of a century after the Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the United States, jihadist groups still pose a major threat to security in Europe, but a new menace has surfaced that is driven mostly by young people online and authorities are worried. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The exact size of the network behind what is being called nihilistic violent extremism is unclear. But police investigators from nine European countries found about 4,340 URL web addresses linked to “The COM,” as the online community has become known, during a campaign to disrupt it in June and July. “It’s violence for the sake…

Published on 08/09/2026 – 14:29 GMT+2•Updated 14:47 Three MEPs have agreed in a report to be published Wednesday to tighten the requirements for foreign direct investment in the EU, restricting access to the European market for Chinese investors, Euronews has learned. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The report comes from the European Parliament’s rapporteurs on the proposed Industrial Accelerator Act, MEPs Christophe Grudler (Renew), Pierre Jouvet (S&D) and MEP Anna Cavazzini (The Greens). The act was presented by the European Commission last March and creates a European preference on the EU market to favour products made in Europe, in a move to protect…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday he expects to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump by the end of September, as Washington steps up efforts to revive negotiations to end Russia’s full-scale invasion. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Zelenskyy said securing additional US air-defence missiles would be a key issue at the meeting, with Kyiv seeking an urgently needed “winter package” of anti-ballistic missile interceptors. Speaking to reporters in the presidential WhatsApp chat, Zelenskyy said he discussed Ukraine’s shortage of advanced air defences with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during their visit to Kyiv over the weekend. “I am counting…

Sweden heads to the polls on Sunday in a tight general election that could see the left-wing opposition oust the government after a campaign dominated by concerns over healthcare and the welfare state amid fears over Europe’s security. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Opinion polls have pointed to a victory for the centre-left opposition headed by the Social Democrats. But Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s centre-right coalition and its parliamentary ally, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, have narrowed the gap in the final weeks of campaigning and the election could go down to the wire, experts say. “There’s still a bit of suspense. But all…