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This article was originally published in Spanish Last year, more than 43,000 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands, a record-breaking figure that exceeds that of 2006, during the so-called ‘Cayuco crisis’. ADVERTISEMENTAround 780 new migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands, local officials in the Spanish archipelago say. Authorities said the migrants arrived in ten boats on the islands of Lanzarote and El Hierro and included 36 minors and 86 women of sub-Saharan and North African origin.Salvamento Marítimo, Spain’s sea and rescue agency, said in a post on X that it rescued “84 sub-Saharan people (13 women and 4 minors) from…

Schallenberg has served as Austria’s foreign minister under outgoing chancellor Karl Nehammer since 2021. ADVERTISEMENTAustrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will be named caretaker chancellor on Wednesday, taking over from outgoing Karl Nehammer, who quit after the first post-election coalition talks collapsed. Schallenberg previously acted as Austrian chancellor in 2021 after Sebastian Kurz stepped down amidst corruption allegations. Austria’s conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP)-led government will remain in power as caretakers until a new coalition is formed. Far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl’s party secured victory in recent parliamentary elections, winning 28.8% of the vote and surpassing outgoing Nehammer’s ÖVP, which came in second. However,…

Greece claims its border policies comply with international law, but the ruling raises concerns about how European nations handle migrants.

US public health agencies said the risk to the general public remains low.

There is no need yet to designate a replacement for Ursula von der Leyen as she battles a severe case of pneumonia, her spokesperson has said.

At a Technical University of Denmark lab, researchers are exploring the potential for fungi to be used as meat and seafood replacements. ADVERTISEMENTAmid looming global food shortages, scientists are trying to transform alternative food into options that are not only sustainable but also tasty and appealing.As part of this mission, researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have recently studied the culinary potential of mycelium.“Mycelium is comparable to the root structure of plants, although fungi are actually not plants,”  Dr Loes van Dam, researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, told Euronews Next.The team used Pleurotus ostreatus, commonly known as…

The Austrian president announced he will meet with the FPÖ leader a day after Chancellor Karl Nehammer said he would resign after talks on forming a new government failed for a second time. ADVERTISEMENTAustrian President Alexander Van der Bellen said in a press conference held on Sunday afternoon that he agreed to meet the Freedom Party’s (FPÖ) leader, Herbert Kickl, on Monday after multiple failed attempts to form a government coalition without the Freedom Party took place. “Voices within the (conservative) People’s Party that rule out cooperation with an FPÖ under Herbert Kickl have become much quieter. This in turn…

A former season worker reveals what really goes on behind the scenes at your ski hotel – and it’s often bonkers.

Trump, who takes office on 20 January, hasn’t publicly fleshed out his policy on Ukraine, but his previous comments have put a question mark over whether the United States will continue to be Ukraine’s biggest military backer. ADVERTISEMENTUS President-elect Donald Trump is “strong and unpredictable” and those qualities can be a decisive factor in his policy approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.However, Zelenskyy said it won’t be possible to end the almost three years of war in one day, as Trump claimed during his election campaign that he could do.”The ‘hot’ stage of the war…

An aspiring cyclist decides to push her limits as she rides part of the ‘Alps-to-Sea’ cycleway by the Rhône River.