Author: Euronews

In an interview on Euronews’ flagship programme, MEP Marc Botenga (The Left, Belgium) welcomed the two-week ceasefire agreed between the US and Iran, following US President Donald Trump’s announcement mere hours before the expiration of his ultimatum to Tehran. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Yet Botenga was highly critical of the EU’s response to the crisis, telling Euronews’ flagship morning show Europe Today that the EU’s position had been “horrible”. “The European Union has done nothing, no diplomatic efforts whatsoever for a crisis that not only is violating human rights, is violating international law, but was also violating our interests,” said Botenga. The…

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that the former detainees in Iran, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris”are free and on their way back to French soil”, in a message posted on X on Tuesday 7 April, amid the conflict in the Middle East. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT “This is a relief for all of us and, of course, for their families”, added the head of state, thanking the”Omani authorities for their mediation efforts, the state services and the citizens who mobilised tirelessly and thus helped secure their return”. Also on X, French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot said he had spoken by telephone…

Published on 07/04/2026 – 11:15 GMT+2 Greece is attracting international interest in its Centauros anti-drone system, a cost-effective electronic warfare platform that has proven its worth in combat operations against Houthi drones in the Red Sea. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The system, developed by state-owned Hellenic Aircraft Industry or EAV, neutralises unmanned aerial vehicles by jamming communication and navigation signals rather than destroying them with missiles. Kyriakos Enotiadis, director of EAV’s electronics sector, said the system has drawn interest from countries beyond Greece and Cyprus, including Armenia and Gulf states. “It is a system that is battle-tested” and cost-effective compared to traditional…

Belgrade is investigating the attempted sabotage of the pipeline transporting gas from Russia to Serbia and Hungary, according to officials, with a suspect said to be “a person from a group of migrants,” head of military security agency VBA Đuro Jovanić said. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The incident occurred on the Balkan Stream pipeline, an extension of the TurkStream pipeline. “Two large packages of explosives with detonators” were found inside backpacks in northern Serbia’s Kanjiža, “a few hundred metres from the gas pipeline”, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced on Sunday morning. Vučić also said he promptly warned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán,…

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Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić has said that explosives were found by police near a pipeline that carries gas from Russia to Serbia and Hungary. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán confirmed soon after that the two leaders had spoken.

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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…

Video. Italy witnessed a rare and highly symbolic Good Friday ceremony on 3 April as Pope Leo XIV carried a wooden cross through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at Rome’s Colosseum, the first time in decades that a pope has performed the full rite in person.

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…