2022-04-07

Ukraine

Mother and daughter injured in Russian bomb blast in Mykolaiv

"Everything is fine with me, well, a little injured, the memory will last a lifetime, that's for sure," Marina Andriyash told Euronews.

07/04/2022

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Brazil: Thousands of indigenous people demonstrate for their land rights

Thousands of indigenous people are demonstrating in Brasilia to oppose mining and oil exploration in their reserves.

07/04/2022

Germany

German MPs reject bill to make COVID vaccines mandatory for over 60s

In total, 378 MPs voted against the bill, while 296 supported it.

07/04/2022

Earth News

Watch protesters throw blood red paint at Spain’s parliament

Climate activists threw red paint on Spain’s parliament building following this week’s IPCC report

07/04/2022

Ukraine

'Sooner or later Europe will turn off Russian gas,' says analyst

Ian Bremmer says Europe importing Russian gas is "becoming a very, very challenging behaviour to continue".

07/04/2022

Travel News

Spain entry rules: Has the country opened up to unvaccinated Brits?

A ‘spectacular blunder’ by the Spanish tourism office has led to uncertainty for unvaccinated Brits.

07/04/2022

Tech News

MEPs back new data sharing rules aiming to boost EU innovation and AI

The idea is to create common European data spaces in a variety of sectors including health, energy and finance.

07/04/2022

Art

Aquatic depiction of Picasso's lover set to fetch $60m at auction

Femme nue couchée (Naked woman reclining), completed in 1932, reimagines Marie-Thérèse Walter – a proficient swimmer, where Picasso never learned to swim – as a graceful, multi-limbed sea creature.

07/04/2022

Earth News

Greece opens the largest double-sided solar farm in Europe

The 204-megawatt solar park in the northern Greek town of Kozani was built by Greece's biggest oil refiner Hellenic Petroleum.

07/04/2022

Culture news

Chanel bars Russians from buying luxury goods abroad

Chanel has stepped up its sanctions against Russia by not just closing its stores in the country, but checking if customers are taking their goods back to Russia.

07/04/2022

France

Are Social Networking platforms making a difference to the French presidential election campaigns?

Seems a lot of door-to-door canvassing has been replaced with YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and TikTok to reach as many people as possible ahead of the French presidential election. Euronews looks at how effective social platforms are and if they could predict the results of the election.

07/04/2022

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Latest news bulletin | April 7th – Midday

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07/04/2022

France

Macron slams Morawiecki for 'scandalous' criticism of Putin dialogue

The Polish prime minister ridiculed the French president’s numerous phone calls with his Russian counterpart, comparing them to trying to negotiate with Hitler.

07/04/2022

Turkey

Turkish court transfers Khashoggi murder case to Saudi Arabia

Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was killed on 2 October 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

07/04/2022

Climate

Air pollution has a bigger impact on life expectancy than smoking

Combined with the effects of climate change, dirty air could be the next biggest threat to our respiratory health.

07/04/2022

Ukraine

Delay on Russia oil embargo costing Ukrainian lives, says Zelenskyy

In his latest video address, Ukraine's president says Moscow is making so much money from oil exports that it doesn't need to take peace talks seriously.

07/04/2022

Nature

What's the difference between rewilding and reforesting?

As the latest IPCC report stresses the need to remove carbon from our atmosphere as soon as possible, some are calling for more natural solutions.

07/04/2022

Money

Meta to move into finance with 'Zuck bucks' and 'creator coins'

Meta is reportedly working on Facebook NFTs and 'reputation tokens' but likely won't move into crypto.

07/04/2022

Culture news

Will audiences buy into The Northman's Viking epic?

Ahead of the release of Robert Eggers' The Northman, we ask why Vikings have never seemed to make that big of a dent in Hollywood.

07/04/2022

Earth News

Euroviews. I took Australia to court over climate change, won - then lost

With her historic legal victory overturned, 17-year-old Anjali Sharma reflects on the backlash she's faced - and what's next.

07/04/2022

Ukraine

Ukraine war: UN votes to suspend Russia from Human Rights Council

The vote to oust Russia from the UN's leading human rights body on Thursday was 93-24 with 58 abstentions.

07/04/2022

Top News Stories Today

Latest news bulletin | April 7th – Morning

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

07/04/2022

Health news

'People need to see the climate crisis as a health crisis'

The mother of a London girl killed by air pollution wants the world to finally ditch fossil fuels and "clean up the air".

07/04/2022

USA

Ukraine war: US, UK hit Russia with new sanctions

The US and UK rolled out new sanctions against Russia on Wednesday, with Europe promising a fifth round of sanctions soon.

07/04/2022

Ukraine

In each barrel of Russian oil you import, there's Ukrainian blood - MP

“In every barrel of oil, there is Ukrainian blood”, a member of Ukraine's parliament told Euronews. He added that the situation in Mariupol could be worse than what took place in Bucha.

07/04/2022

Ukraine

Children will need support to overcome trauma of war, UNICEF says

"People are exhausted. They need help, they need our support. They need us to be there and start to receive the kind of first psychological aid there's going to be so important."

07/04/2022

Belarus

Belarus arrests four for trying to sabotage railway links to Ukraine

Minsk has claimed that officers shot and injured the suspects because they had tried to "resist arrest".

07/04/2022

Czech Republic

Czech MPs vote to recognise Soviet-era famine in Ukraine as genocide

Up to four million people are believed to have died during the great famine between 1932 and 1933.

07/04/2022