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Published on 11/07/2026 – 14:57 GMT+2•Updated 15:38 Paris’ Eiffel Tower and Louvre Museum will close early this weekend as yet another heatwave grips western Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Eiffel Tower said it would “exceptionally close” at 4 pm on Saturday and Sunday due to high temperatures forecast in the French capital, while the Louvre will shutter at the same time through to Monday. The Musée d’Orsay art gallery also announced that it would be closing from 5 pm from Saturday through to Wednesday. 24 departments across northwestern France are under a red heat alert on Saturday, according to Météo-France, affecting…
Published on 11/07/2026 – 8:57 GMT+2•Updated 9:51 Russian missile strikes on Kyiv overnight have injured at least 11 people and sparked fires across the capital, authorities said on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In a series of posts on Telegram, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the city was under attack from ballistic missiles and warned residents to remain in bomb shelters. “Early reports indicate a strike on a non-residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district. A transformer substation is on fire in the Darnytskyi district. In the Solomianskyi district, a fire has broken out in a three-story office building,” he wrote. Ukrainian President…
By Sonja Issel Published on 11/07/2026 – 9:25 GMT+2 A large-scale police operation is under way in southwest Berlin after a woman was reportedly taken hostage in a supermarket on Friday evening. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT At around 10 p.m., a man is reported to have threatened a woman with a knife in a Rewe store and taken her hostage. The police operation was still ongoing in the early hours of Saturday. At about 7:30 a.m. police confirmed to Die Zeit that the situation remained tense. The supermarket is currently cordoned off, according to a dpa reporter. Officers from a special operations unit…
Published on 10/07/2026 – 7:31 GMT+2•Updated 10:14 At least 11 people have died as a wildfire ripped through southern Spain’s Almería province amid a stifling heatwave that has gripped the country. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Authorities raised an earlier death toll of six to 12 “after the confirmation of six more deaths in the area of the fire,” the regional government of Andalusia said in a statement. A few hours later, Spains emergency services corrected the number down to 11. Some of the dead in Bedar in Almería were found in burned vehicles, the regional government said in a statement. Officials have…
By Célia Gueuti with AFP Published on 10/07/2026 – 12:24 GMT+2 Celebrations turned into a tragedy in northern France overnight after a 17-year-old girl died after falling from the back of a lorry. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The incident occurred shortly after 12:30 am as a jubilant crowd soaked up the French national team’s victory over Morocco in the World Cup quarterfinals. The teenager fell from the truck as it entered a roundabout and was crushed. Emergency responders tried to resuscitate her, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. Six minors were present when the accident happened. One of them was taken to Maubeuge…
Published on 10/07/2026 – 15:19 GMT+2 Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party was facing new questions about financial gifts on Friday after a report said police were investigating donations by the mother of a convicted fraudster. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT It comes as authorities confirmed that a snap UK vote in which Reform leader Nigel Farage will go up against novelty candidate Count Binface will take place on 13 August. Reform, an anti-immigration group that has led the ruling Labour party in opinion polls for well over a year, is facing intense scrutiny over several alleged undeclared donations. The Times daily reported late…
Published on 10/07/2026 – 15:48 GMT+2 Police in Greece said on Friday they had arrested three people in connection to attacks earlier this month that targeted ruling party politicians, killing a woman in a car explosion. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “Three individuals have been arrested” by anti-terror police in Thessaloniki and the island of Crete, the police said in a statement. Police said those arrested were a 29-year-old man in Thessaloniki and a 26-year-old woman on the southern island of Crete on suspicion of involvement in the bombing. Another man was arrested on suspicion of hiding the two in his apartment. The…
The wildfire that broke out on Thursday and is ravaging southern Spain has already left at least 12 people dead and has once again raised the question that almost nobody asks until it is too late: what to do if the flames catch up with you. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The blaze is now the second most serious in the country in terms of loss of life and has forced the preventive evacuation of around 800 people from the municipality of Bédar and several neighbouring hamlets. Civil Protection, the Military Emergency Unit (UME) and the rescue services always stress the same point:…
Europe is not facing an immediate fuel supply crisis despite renewed tensions in the Middle East, but the continent remains dangerously exposed to fossil fuel supply and price shocks and must rapidly electrify its economy while resisting calls to return to Russian energy, top energy leaders told Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen and International Energy Agency (IEA) chief Fatih Birol insisted that Europe should not interpret any ceasefire in the Middle East as a return to normal, warning that disruption to the Strait of Hormuz could send oil prices sharply higher and reignite inflationary pressures. “We are in…
Published on 10/07/2026 – 21:46 GMT+2•Updated 21:47 Belgium’s three regions announced on Friday that they would introduce a road tax next year that foreign drivers transiting the country would also have to pay. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The country does not currently charge drivers to use its highways and the issue of introducing some form of payment has been debated for years. “Everyone who uses our roads must contribute fairly to their maintenance,” said the transport minister for the southern Wallonia region, François Desquesnes. Starting on 1 May 2027 drivers will need to register their vehicle and pay the road tax, with…