2020-08-21

Belgium

EU gives green light to €290 million state aid for Brussels Airlines

The EU's temporary state aid framework means the Belgian government can help the ailing national carrier avoid bankruptcy.

21/08/2020

World News

WHO hopes to end Covid-19 pandemic in 'less than two years'

WHO chief hopes the COVID-19 pandemic will be shorter than the Spanish flu of 1918, which lasted two years.

21/08/2020

Turkey

Turkey is converting another former Byzantine church into a mosque

As with the Hagia Sophia, the decision is seen as being geared to consolidate the conservative and religious support base of Erdogan's ruling party at a time when his popularity is under strain.

21/08/2020

World News

A 400-year old ship has been found in the Baltic Sea

Divers from Finland have uncovered a rare find in the Baltic Sea: a 400-year old trade ship.

21/08/2020

World News

Here are the most striking images from this week's top stories

Here is our selection of the most striking photographs that made the news this week

21/08/2020

Belarus

Belarus or "White Russia"? What's in a name

Opposition demonstrations have dominated worldwide headlines, but media coverage has differed in one noticeable way across Europe - how to name the country involved.

21/08/2020

Spain

Spanish region orders closure of brothels after COVID-19 cluster found

With brothels not keeping an official registry of clients, authorities in Castilla La Mancha haven’t been able to contact trace people who may have been exposed

21/08/2020

Europe Decoded

Trump asks Supreme Court to let him block Twitter critics

The White House is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a 2019 ruling which said that the US President could not block users as it is a violation of the First Amendment.

21/08/2020

Spain

Spanish police dismantle two networks smuggling migrants into France

Fifteen people have been arrested including three in the Spanish capital, Madrid, and one in Lleida, a city in the north-eastern province of Catalonia.

21/08/2020

Green News

Young people call for more green jobs in the UK on Earth Overshoot Day

They performed in the shadow of the UK's first commercial wind farm.

21/08/2020

Belgium

Slovakia says Belgian police brutality against citizen 'unacceptable'

Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok commented on the case after a Belgian newspaper this week published a 2018 video of an officer sitting on top of a man at Brussels South Charleroi Airport and another officer apparently making a Hitler salute.

21/08/2020

Series

Thermal springs and mud therapy on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast

In partnership with Bulgaria Travel

Thermal springs and mud therapy on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast

21/08/2020

Turkey

Turkey announces discovery of large natural gas reserve in Black Sea

Erdogan made the announcement on Friday. The plan is for it to be functional by 2023, the centenary of the Turkish Republic.

21/08/2020

Ireland

Golfgate scandal: Irish minister resigns after breaking COVID-19 rules

The Taoiseach said the resignation of his second agriculture minister in 54 days was "the right decision for the country."

21/08/2020

World News

What Americans should know about Europe’s travel restrictions

With the EU’s travel ban on US citizens still in place, what options do American passport holders have when it comes to international travel?

21/08/2020

Libya

Ceasefire announced in Libya after nine years of political crisis

The UN has called for the expulsion of all mercenaries from the country.

21/08/2020

Green News

Michigan agrees to pay $600m to victims of the Flint water crisis

It has been called one of the worst human-caused environmental disasters in American history.

21/08/2020

France

Wearing mask in the workplace: a survival guide

Across France, mask wearers share their experiences and tips for what will soon be the new normal.

21/08/2020

USA

Heat and lightning strikes to blame for wildfires in California

The blazes have been caused by lightning strikes, the authorities say, and come amid a heatwave in the U.S. state.

21/08/2020

United Kingdom

Coronavirus sends UK debt over £2 trillion for the first time

The coronavirus pandemic's had an unprecedented impact on borrowing.

21/08/2020

Russia

'Poison is part of Putin's policy,' says Alexei Navalny associate

Moscow municipal deputy and associate of Alexei Navalny, Konstantin Jankauskas, tells Euronews he refutes the claim that no poison was found in the opposition politician's blood.

21/08/2020

World News

Brexit: 'We are wasting valuable time', says Barnier

"Considerable gaps" between the two sides remained at the end fo the July talks.

21/08/2020

World

PSG v Bayern Munich: Who will win the Champions League?

A German Audi against an old Renault? Watch this hilarious correspondent face-off as Jona and Guillaume preview the Champions League final on Sunday.

21/08/2020

Mali

Mali junta say change 'has just started' after forcing Keita to resign

The soldiers deny there's been a coup in Mali, but the Community of West African States is sending a delegation to the country to try and restore the constitutional order.

21/08/2020

France

Coronavirus in France: New cases jump to over 4,700

4,771 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in France on Thursday. The country had not seen the number of new infections jump over the 4,000 threshold since May.

21/08/2020

France

Macron: Coronavirus vaccine likely ready in 'coming months'

It comes after the EU secured 225 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine by German company CureVac.

21/08/2020