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How are Europeans coping with energy and fuel bills?
Across Europe, financial insecurity is becoming a long-term feature of people’s living conditions, with energy poverty further aggravating their vulnerability. Around 29% of Europeans say they are living in precarious circumstances, with 73% of Europeans…
At least 11 killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine as Kyiv strikes Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
At least 11 people were killed and 96 injured across Ukraine in overnight Russian attacks between 11 and 12 September. The Odesa region was hit hardest, but strikes also targeted, among others, the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv…
Diesel in Portugal hits record high, Spain introduces new discount
Published on 12/09/2026 – 12:19 GMT+2 The price of diesel is expected to rise slightly in Portugal at the start of next week, according to forecasts from the National Association of Fuel Retailers (ANAREC), while the price of petrol is set to fall. However…
Anaconda on the Danube: giant constrictor snake discovered in Bavaria
Published on 12/09/2026 – 11:35 GMT+2 On the banks of the Danube near Kirchroth in the district of Straubing-Bogen, a 66-year-old woman out for a walk spotted a constrictor snake more than two metres long basking in the sun. She immediately realised that it…
Dublin braces itself for Trump visit to talk trade, golf and Gaza
Published on 12/09/2026 – 10:25 GMT+2•Updated 10:41 Dublin is bracing itself ahead of a meeting between the US President Donald Trump and Irish President Catherine Connolly Saturday morning. Trump is landing in Dublin where he is due to take part in a…
At least 44 people injured after train derails in northern France
Published on 12/09/2026 – 9:13 GMT+2 At least 44 people have been injured, one of them seriously, after a train which was carrying 186 people derailed in northern France on Friday, according to officials. Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot wrote on social…
Welcome to the Baltic military-industrial complex
I’m in Latvia for the two-day Rīga Conference, which started yesterday with security and defence very much at the top of the agenda. (And the timing is curious, with today serving as the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers). The…
Video. Norway FM: Netanyahu government driving Israel into ‘dangerous place’
Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has told Europe Today that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has driven Israel into a “very dangerous place”. Describing it as “the most far-right government in Israel’s history”, Eide said he hoped that, regardless of…
Five dead as Dutch tourist coach overturns in Switzerland
By Simon Ormiston & Euronews Published on 10/09/2026 – 20:53 GMT+2•Updated 11/09/2026 – 10:42 GMT+2 A coach overturned on a mountain road in the eastern Swiss canton of Graubünden this week, leaving five people dead and 40 injured, local police…
Spanish official resigns amid questions over Ceuta migrant warnings
Published on 11/09/2026 – 13:10 GMT+2•Updated 13:11 The chief of staff to the Spanish government’s delegate in Ceuta, Gonzalo Sanz, has resigned from his position, the latest episode in an ongoing controversy over what Spanish authorities may have known ahead…