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Ceuta residents try to block Red Cross aid month after migrant influx
Protests over security in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta escalated into clashes between locals and police on Thursday, a month after a mass influx of migrants from Morocco. Police charged protesters at a beach after a group of demonstrators moved into…
Russia attacks Kyiv with drones, wounds a dozen across Ukraine
Published on 27/08/2026 – 20:18 GMT+2 Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with drones on Thursday, the latest in a series of increasingly frequent daytime assaults, killing one person and wounding many more, authorities said. More than four years into its…
UK asylum applications drop by more than a fifth, new data shows
Published on 27/08/2026 – 16:46 GMT+2 UK asylum applications fell by more than a fifth annually, government figures showed on Thursday, as ministers grapple with the politically contentious issue and reducing record-high recent numbers alongside asylum…
Eastern Flank Commissioners urge von der Leyen action over Russia
Published on 27/08/2026 – 18:07 GMT+2 The European Commissioners from Eastern Flank countries have urged Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to take urgent action over growing Russian threats to the Baltic states, including by creating a new high-level…
Two dead in ‘violent incident’ at school near Berlin, local media says
Two people were killed in a “violent incident” at a school near Berlin, local media reported on Thursday, saying an 18-year-old woman student and a 30-year-old man had died. Regional public broadcaster RBB and a local daily said the alarm had been raised at a…
UEFA preparing criminal complaint against FIFA chief in Swiss courts
Published on 27/08/2026 – 16:22 GMT+2 UEFA is preparing a criminal complaint against FIFA President Gianni Infantino in Swiss courts for possible financial mismanagement over his failed plan to sell future World Cup profits to private investors. UEFA said on…
Spain and another major earthquake: A geologist explains to Euronews
More than 1,000 earthquakes in just 10 days, two of them of magnitude 4.8. The seismic sequence that began on 14 August in Granada has once again raised a question that goes far beyond Andalusia: could Spain soon be hit by a major earthquake? By 24 August…
Von der Leyen turns up pressure on China over trade deficit
Published on 27/08/2026 – 14:10 GMT+2 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday that if negotiations to reduce the record-high trade deficit with China did not produce a breakthrough, the EU should make use of all its trade defence…
Ceuta protests: government and media in the crosshairs
Ceuta has faced its second consecutive night of protests over the migration crisis, and social tensions continue to rise. Tuesday’s demonstrations against the alleged plan by the government to house migrants in the Coronel Fiscer barracks were followed on…
Fidesz considers a future without Orbán – or even dissolution
Hungary’s Fidesz party is facing an existential crisis following its dramatic defeat in the country’s April elections, in which Péter Magyar’s Tisza party unseated Viktor Orbán after 16 years of governing with a supermajority. Having been a key driver of…