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2020-10-20

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World News

Spacecraft touches asteroid's surface in mission to grab rock sample

Flight controllers declare success in NASA mission to collect material from an asteroid 200 million miles from planet Earth using the Osiris-Rex spacecraft

World News

Buying EU citizenship: Golden passports and visas explained

The EU is taking action against two member states, Cyprus and Malta, over their investor citizenship schemes - here's what they are, and why the EU has a problem with them.

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Cinema

Dardenne brothers honoured at forward-looking Lumière Festival

With the Cannes Film Festival unable to take place physically because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Lyon's prestigious Lumière Festival has assumed even greater significance - honouring the past but also facing the future by featuring forward-looking films. Euronews was there.

My Europe Series

Can Europe planting three billion trees help save the planet?

NGOs fear that tree planting often leads to "greenwashing" by corporations and governments and distracts from the real effort to stop the burning of fossil fuels.

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French MPs hold a minute's silence for murdered teacher Samuel Paty

Paty, a history teacher, was beheaded on Friday by an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee, who was later shot dead by police.

Romania

Bucharest schools close as COVID-19 surges in Romania's capital

Bucharest has closed schools, indoor restaurants, cafes, theatres and cinemas for two weeks and made mask-wearing mandatory in all public spaces.

World News

Humans' 'disrespect of nature' is to blame for COVID-19: Jane Goodall

The world-renowned ethologist, who devoted her life to the protection of chimpanzees, deplored our treatment of animals and their habitat.

Europe News

What's the beef? Veggie burger ban rejected by MEPs

MEPs have voted to allow the use of words such as “steak”, “sausage”, and “burger” for plant-based products, rejecting farming industry advocates pleas to limit terms to meat-based foods.

United Kingdom

Thousands of UK homes under threat as coastal erosion increases

The homes of 100,000 people in the UK are currently threatened by coastal erosion - and the pace of the disintegration is increasing as climate change accelerates. Euronews visits England's east coast where the problems are particularly acute.

Europe News

EU begin legal action against Malta & Cyprus over 'golden passports'

The schemes saw the EU countries grant nationality — and thereby freedom to move around the 27-member bloc — in exchange for money or investment.

World News

Millennials particularly disillusioned about democracy, report finds

55% of millennials say they are dissatisfied with democracy, while less than half of Generation X and baby boomers felt the same way at that age.

Denmark

Danish submarine killer recaptured after prison break attempt

Peter Madsen was jailed for life for the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his homemade submarine in 2017

World

Meet the new app that tells you when your electricity is greenest

Yoyu uses weather forecasts to calculate when the amount of solar or wind power in the total energy mix is at its highest.

Ocean

The scourge of plastic waste - and the EU's approach

In partnership with the European Commission

Eight million tonnes of plastic enters out oceans every year, damaging and degrading ecosystems - and entering the human food chain. What can be done about it?

Poland

Polish court to determine fate of 'independent' human rights ombudsman

Since the populist party, Law and Justice, won power in 2015, it has taken control of almost all state institutions, except the Human Rights Commissioner's office but that could soon change.