Author: Euronews

A Sea-Watch rescue ship arrived in Lampedusa Saturday carrying 44 migrants rescued from an abandoned oil rig in the Mediterranean. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Sea-Watch, a non-profit sea rescue group, said the migrants were on the oil rig ‘Didon’ after taking refuge to escape a storm. The presence of the migrants on the oil rig, in the waters between Tunisia and Libya, was reported on Wednesday by Alarm Phone, a group of volunteers who handle emergency calls from migrants. Initially it was thought there were 47 people aboard the rig. Earlier, in Italy, authorities found 19 people dead and rescued 58 others…

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In Kakanj, an industrial town in the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina, everything revolves around lignite. Thousands of jobs depend on it. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Here lie 440 million tonnes of coal, one of the largest deposits in Europe. I get special authorisation to enter the huge open-cast pit. Coal was already being mined in Kakanj during the time of the Austrian emperor. Before World War I, some five thousand miners toiled here. Today, there are still 1200. One of them is Omer Hrustić: “I was literally a kid when my uncle brought me to the work site. Yeah, it’s three…

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Published on 02/04/2026 – 17:00 GMT+2 Claims of foreign interference have dogged France’s recent municipal elections, allegedly targeting left-wing politicians and prompting investigations by the authorities. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Results announced on Saturday 28 March showed the incumbent mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, representing the conservative Republicans party, winning 53.17% of the vote, ahead of his left-wing rival from France Unbowed, François Piquemal. Shortly after the result, Piquemal said on social media he would pursue “legal action to shed light on how foreign interference may have affected the vote.” His legal team alleges that fake websites and social media accounts spread…

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