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Next Saturday, when Munich Mayor Dominik Krause taps the first beer barrel on the city’s Theresienwiese, the famous cry of “O’zapft is” will ring out once again as Oktoberfest 2026 kicks off. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT From Saturday, 19 September to Sunday, 4 October, more than six million visitors are expected at Oktoberfest, Germany’s world-renowned folk and beer festival. But attendees will have to keep some important rules in mind. Cannabis Munich’s Oktoberfest is a cannabis-free zone. Back in July 2024, the Bavarian state parliament passed the “Bayerische Cannabisfolgenbegrenzungsgesetz,” banning the consumption of cannabis in certain places. Anyone caught smoking cannabis on…
By Tomasz Lezon & Euronews Published on 13/09/2026 – 13:16 GMT+2•Updated 13:51 A Russian drone struck the locomotive of a passenger train two kilometres from the Polish border on Sunday, Ukraine’s state-owned rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The attack reportedly took place in Ukraine’s Volyn region. There are not believed to have been any casualties from the incident. “For the second day in a row, the enemy has been attacking the railways. Today in the Volyn region, two km from the border with Poland, the enemy struck the locomotive of a passenger train,” Ukrzaliznytsia said on Telegram. A tragedy was…
In her stronghold in northern France, Marine Le Pen will deliver her first campaign speech this Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The far-right candidate for 2027 is relaunching her campaign in Hénin-Beaumont, after a gathering of her party’s MPs in Le Touquet (Pas-de-Calais) on Saturday. Leading the polls, she is credited with 34% of first-round voting intentions in every scenario, according to a survey carried out on 8 and 9 September by OpinionWay for Les Échos. Yet the past few weeks have been marked by a series of mishaps, against a backdrop of alleged friction with the party’s president, Jordan Bardella, including…
Published on 13/09/2026 – 12:20 GMT+2•Updated 12:26 A sea of EU flags seemingly outnumbered Union Jacks during sections of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms show on Saturday night, as the UK’s relationship with Brussels once again finds itself in the spotlight. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Footage of the event, which is part of a classical music festival held each summer in London, shows a swathe of swirling blue and gold flags across the crowd at the city’s Royal Albert Hall. The 12 gold stars of the European banner appeared particularly prominent during renditions of songs such as “Land of Hope…
Published on 13/09/2026 – 11:53 GMT+2 Russia launched over 450 drones across Ukraine in overnight attacks, according to Ukraine’s Armed Forces, while Kyiv struck oil refineries in Russia’s Tatarstan, according to Russian authorities. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Russia launched 453 drones of various types across Ukraine, 409 of which were neutralised by Ukraine’s Armed Forces. However, 13 locations were struck. Multiple attacks on the city of Stryi, in the Lviv region, which borders Poland, left a multi-storey residential building, an outbuilding near a school and buildings near a railway station damaged after being struck by Russian drones. In the city of Izyum,…
Swedes are heading to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament, in a closely fought election that could deliver fresh gains for the far right and potentially bring it into government for the first time. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is seeking another term in office, but his chances of staying in power could depend on the Sweden Democrats, the far-right party that already supports his minority government. Kristersson’s main challenger is his predecessor, Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson, with opinion polls pointing to an extremely tight contest between the country’s rival political blocs. The prime…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 7:45 GMT+2•Updated 8:40 Kyrylo Budanov, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, says Europe is finally beginning to recognise what Kyiv has long warned about: Russian aggression is increasingly manifesting itself through hybrid warfare, and it goes well beyond the Baltics. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Central European states … see and feel the manifestations of Russian aggressive acts embodied in hybrid operations,” he told Euronews on the sidelines of the Rīga Conference on Thursday. Budanov, a former military intelligence chief, said Russia follows a playbook that begins with “special information operations and propaganda” and culminates in…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 8:55 GMT+2 Brazil’s ambassador to the European Union has warned that the EU’s ban on imports of Brazilian meat risks undoing key aspects of the EU-Mercosur trade deal, fuelling a “reversal of expectations” in Brazil and mounting frustration among the country’s producers. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The European Commission suspended imports of meat and other food products from Brazil last week over concerns about antimicrobial substances used in production, in a move that impacts millions of euros’ worth of Brazilian exports. Ambassador Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva told Euronews that the ban targets “sensitive products” which Brazil…
The AfD’s lead candidate in the Saxony-Anhalt state, Ulrich Siegmund, has sparked fierce criticism with remarks about the possible use of military equipment in a future “remigration and deportation offensive”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The background is the planned establishment of a production site of the Israeli defence company Elbit Systems in Sangerhausen. At a press conference, Siegmund drew a link between the production of armaments, domestic security and the migration policy his party is pursuing. Siegmund initially stated that the AfD did not fundamentally oppose the production of armaments. Arms production could, among other things, be important for domestic security, the…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called on artificial intelligence (AI) companies to slow down the development of the powerful technology, as concerns mount over the risks of “superintelligent” computer systems. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Superintelligence is the theoretical point when AI’s capabilities exceed human intelligence. His comments came a few days after AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who left OpenAI to join Anthropic, decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies and industry giants of “gambling with our lives” in the race to develop models capable of self-improvement. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI…