2016-09-28

USA

Obama slams vote to override his veto of 9/11 legislation

The US Congress has voted to override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill allowing relatives of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabian officials.

28/09/2016

Sport

Champions League: Walcott hits a brace to help Gunners to Basel victory

Theo Walcott scored a brace of goals as Arsenal beat Basel 2-0 to pick up their first win in this season’s Champions League.

28/09/2016

World News

Trade in world's most-trafficked mammal banned

The world’s most trafficked mammal has gained special protection after more than a million were poached from the wild in the last decade.

28/09/2016

USA

Teenage shooter wounds three at South Carolina school

Two children and a teacher have been wounded in a shooting at an elementary school in Anderson County, South Carolina.

28/09/2016

Spain

Catalonia to hold independence vote next year, says regional leader

The President of Catalonia has said the Spanish region will hold a referendum on secession in 2017, whether the central government in Madrid agrees or not.

28/09/2016

Business Series

Blackberry hangs up the phone to focus on selling software and services

Blackberry has shifted away the money-losing handset business to focus on selling software and services.

28/09/2016

World News

"Aleppo is worse than a slaughterhouse" - Ban Ki-moon

The UN Secretary General says those using "ever-more destructive weapons in Syria" are committing war crimes. The comments come after Aleppo is pounded by intensified air strikes, knocking out two hos

28/09/2016

Explore

24 hours in Lima

Join euronews' Monica Pinna as she stretches out a day in the capital of Peru.

28/09/2016

Economy

Draghi faces off against German critics

Grilled by German lawmakers, ECB head Mario Draghi has been defending its ultra low interest rates and other stimulus measures.

28/09/2016

Netherlands

Dutch investigation into MH17 crash 'biased and politically-motivated' says Russia

Moscow has denounced as ‘biased’ an investigation into the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

28/09/2016

Afghanistan

Afghanistan: suspected US drone strike kills at least 18, including civilians

A suspected US drone strike against ISIL targets in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province has killed at least 18 people, though other reports put the death toll and number of civilian casualties…

28/09/2016

Europe News

Brief from Brussels: Belgium braced for labour reform protest

This is the Brief from Brussels.

28/09/2016

Israel

Shimon Peres and the Oslo Accord

Twenty three years ago, on 13 September in Washington DC there was widespread euphoria.

28/09/2016

Jordan

More than 1000 attend funeral of slain Jordanian writer

Nahed Hattar was to stand trial after sharing on social media a cartoon image seen as insulting Islam. He was shot by a former Muslim preacher on the steps of the courthouse on Sunday.

28/09/2016

Russia

State of emergency declared in Siberia

A huge forest fire has been burning out-of-control since Tuesday. The Russian Emergency Ministry says the fire covers more than 400 hectares of land, most of it forest.

28/09/2016

Israel

Palestinians express mixed reactions over death of Shimon Peres

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was one of many world leaders to pay tribute to the late Shimon Peres, whom he hailed as “a man of peace.

28/09/2016

World News

Five suspected ISIL members arrested in pan-European police operation

Five suspected members of an ISIL terror cell have been arrested after coordinated police raids in Spain, Belgium and Germany.

28/09/2016

Sport

A favour for a friend led to Big Sam's fall from grace

Sam Allardyce spoke to the media for the first time since his resignation as head coach England on Tuesday evening.

28/09/2016

Markets

Deutsche Bank shares perk up on insurance sale, rescue plan denial

Deutsche Bank's shares rose on Wednesday after the CEO said it didn't need to raise money and the German government denied it was preparing a rescue plan.

28/09/2016

France

[360° video] Flying high at the Coupe Icare

28/09/2016

Sport

World Cup of Hockey: Canada beat Team Europe to take the lead in best of three final

Canada drew first blood in their World Cup of Hockey final against Team Europe.

28/09/2016

Netherlands

MH17: Timeline of a disaster

Key events since the MH17 flight disaster

28/09/2016

Turkey

Turkey may need to build new courts as arrests reach 32,000 since failed coup

Turkey may have to build new courthouses to cope with the thousands of prosecutions over July’s failed coup, the country’s Justice minister has said.

28/09/2016

Europe News

Just 5,000 migrants moved under flagship EU relocation policy

A flagship EU policy to relocate migrants from Greece and Italy appears to have flopped.

28/09/2016

Economy

Oil output freeze deal now seen more likely in November

Saudia Arabia has softened its stance on Iran pumping more oil, but an OPEC deal to freeze output remains elusive.

28/09/2016

World News

MH17 shot down by Russian Buk missile - investigators

Prosecutors from the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine say the Buk missile system used to shoot down the plane was fired from the village of Pervomaysk and later returned to Russia

28/09/2016

Culture news

A look inside one of China’s premier music festivals

28/09/2016

Europe News

Bulgaria backs EU's Georgieva to be next UN chief

Kristalina Georgieva, an EU commissioner, has been nominated by her native Bulgaria as a candidate to become the next UN Secretary General.

28/09/2016

Hungary

How Hungary is out of touch over granting asylum to war-fleeing Syrians

Hungary rejects the overwhelming majority of asylum requests from war-fleeing Syrians, new figures show, putting them out-of-touch with their EU counterparts.

28/09/2016

Syria

Air strikes hit two hospitals in eastern Aleppo

Monitors say Syria's government and its Russian backers have stepped up air attacks on rebel-held parts of the city since the end of a ceasefire last week.

28/09/2016