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Hundreds of shoppers queued outside Lidl supermarkets across France on Thursday after the retailer announced the sale of 200,000 fans and portable air conditioners, triggering long lines, scuffles and police intervention at several stores. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Outside a Lidl store in Paris’s 19th arrondissement, around 200 people waited for up to two hours before opening, with police monitoring the crowds as demand grew. Social media videos showed chaotic scenes as customers rushed into stores in a bid to secure the discounted cooling appliances. In Nanterre, west of Paris, the entrance door of a Lidl supermarket was damaged as crowds pushed…
Published on 03/07/2026 – 14:52 GMT+2 European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is weighing the possibility of playing a role in the upcoming French elections, which could lead her to leave her post early, she told French newspaper Les Échos on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Lagarde did not specify the role she has in mind, but said she is not currently planning to run as a candidate, and would instead prefer to contribute to and shape the electoral debate. “I believe that a European voice needs to be heard in the French presidential debate,” Lagarde said, adding that it would be…
Published on 03/07/2026 – 20:43 GMT+2 Two Romanians previously convicted of a knife attack on an Iranian journalist outside his London home “on behalf of” Iran were jailed on Friday for 12 and eight years respectively. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT George Stana, 25, and Nandito Badea, 21, were found guilty last month of wounding with intent over the 2024 stabbing of Pouria Zeraati, a news presenter for Persian-language outlet Iran International. The duo had denied the charge but were convicted by a jury after a trial. Sentencing them at London’s Old Bailey court, judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said the evidence “overwhelmingly points” to…
Published on 03/07/2026 – 15:00 GMT+2 Some 40 years, Finland´s capital started to design new solutions to reduce deadly road accidents – and then eventually eliminate them. Those efforts have now paid off. 12 consecutive months without a single road death were recorded between 2024 and 2025. By comparison, during a similar period 31 people -including drivers, pedestrians, bikers or cyclists- died on the streets of Paris. By the time of the filming of this report, another nine consecutive months had passed without a single road death in Helsinki. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Comprehensive city planning has been a key aspect, but…
Dozens of diamonds spell out two giant letter “T” next to the Stars and Stripes and “1776” and “2026.” ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Dozens more frame the numbers 45 and 47 in the shape of Superman’s logo. A diamond-winged eagle carries a ruby shield and clutches an olive branch of emeralds, below a radiant “250” and atop the phrase “250 YEARS USA” etched in 18-karat gold. All told, 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and six rubies encrust the watch-sized gold ring presented this week to Bill White, the US ambassador to Belgium, to give to President Donald Trump. “A very special…
Published on 03/07/2026 – 15:02 GMT+2•Updated 15:03 The Ukraine war front line remained largely frozen in June, extending a longer-term trend of stalled Russian momentum, an analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) carried out by the AFP news agency showed on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The June data showed a Russian net gain of 30 square kilometres, focused in the northeastern Kharkiv region. But those gains were largely down to previous Russian incursions being upgraded to advances, as more evidence came to light, said the ISW. Ukrainian forces gained 11 square kilometres in the southern…
The European Union will retaliate against China if the country fails to make tangible changes to its unfair trade practices by October, Ursula von der Leyen has said amid rising tensions between Brussels and Beijing. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Dialogue is essential, but the dialogue has to deliver,” the president of the European Commission said on Friday during an official visit to Cork, Ireland. “Depending on how the response of the Chinese is, in the fall will then be our potential activity. We are basically prepared for everything, and we have all the instruments on the table, and we are thinking about…
Published on 03/07/2026 – 16:07 GMT+2 EU member states agreed on Friday to sanction six Russian nationals linked to the chemical substance suspected of killing Russian dissident Alexei Navalny during his detention in a penal colony. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Those targeted are scientists and researchers involved in Russia’s military chemical weapons programme, most notably in the development of epibatidine, traces of which were found on Navalny’s body after his death in February 2024. Navalny was Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and anti-corruption activist. He was arrested in 2021 on fraud charges after returning to Russia following a failed poisoning attempt in…
By the end of next year, around 5,000 German troops will be permanently stationed between the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, and the border with Belarus as part of the new Lithuania Panzerbrigade 45. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT During a major military exercise in May and June, Lithuanian schoolgirl Kamilė V. found herself at the heart of the action after winning a Bundeswehr tank ride in a NATO essay competition. Euronews met her shortly before the experience at the Pabradė training area, where she joined soldiers from the mechanised infantry battalion assigned to Brigade 45. They had just completed the nearly six-week “Freedom Shield”…
Ukraine and Moldova notched another milestone in their EU accession bids at a technical meeting on Friday, as member states unanimously agreed to advance the opening of another cluster of negotiations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The move to unlock cluster six (“External Relations”) marks a further step in the two candidates’ accession process, reflecting Hungary’s gradual shift in position following Péter Magyar’s landslide election victory over Viktor Orbán. Orbán had kept Kyiv’s accession bid on hold for years over a dispute concerning the treatment of the Hungarian minority in western Ukraine. Magyar’s new government worked with the Ukrainian side to resolve the…