news | Euronews

English

No Comment

India submerges unclaimed ashes of 1,200 Covid dead.

Marked only by numbered stickers, dozens of clay pots containing the ashes of covid's dead lie unclaimed.

No Comment

France: images of a flooded street in Reims

An amateur video shows a flooded street in Reims after heavy storms. Vehicles are blocked as a torrent pours down the Avenue Jean Jaurès.

No Comment

Hong Kong: Commemoration of Tiananmen is forbidden

Hong Kong people shine torches on their phones and police move in to extinguish candles lit during the Tiananmen commemoration.

No Comment

Huge Harry Potter store opens in New York

Fans queue for hours, to be among the first inside New York's long-awaited Harry Potter store, hosting the largest collection of Potter products in the world.

ADVERTISEMENT

No Comment

Hong Kong performance artists mark Tiananmen eve as vigil banned

On the eve of the Tiananmen crackdown anniversary, Hong Kong artists stage performances in the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay, near Victoria Park.

No Comment

'Devils' dance, praying to end crisis in Venezuela

Catholic devotees in the Venezuelan town of Naiguata on Thursday participated in the "Dancing Devils" tradition.

No Comment

Clown helps Mumbai kids fight Covid

Volunteer social worker Ashok Kurmi is helping an army of young fans fight the coronavirus in Mumbai's slums using an unusual accessory: a clown costume.

No Comment

Sri Lanka facing environmental disaster after ship

Rough seas and poor visibility forced Sri Lanka navy divers to abandon an inspection Thursday of a sinking ship threatening a disastrous oil spill off Colombo's main harbour, officials said.

No Comment

Moroccan migrants queue to seek asylum in Spain

Hundreds of Moroccan migrants who recently crossed into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta queued to potentially seek asylum and avoid deportation to Morocco.

No Comment

Tokyo unveils Olympic podium, medal tray and music with 50 days to go

The Tokyo 2020 organisers unveil items to be used for the Olympic medal ceremonies, including podiums made with recycled plastic and release the victory music for the medalists, exactly 50 days before the pandemic-postponed Games.

Israel

Israel: PM Netanyahu's opponents strike coalition deal to oust him

Centrist Yair Lapid and ultranationalist Naftali Bennett said they reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, which also includes a small Islamist party.

No Comment

LEGO staff create the world’s largest ever football made of bricks

The world’s largest LEGO ball has been built at the LEGO House in Billund, the hometown of Lego, to celebrate the upcoming European Football Championship, that will kick off on June 11.

No Comment

Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov conduct spacewalk from the ISS

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov conduct a spacewalk from the International Space Station. The duo carry out preparations for the undocking and disposing of a station module later this year.

No Comment

Gigantic sinkhole appears in central Mexico, worrying locals

A sinkhole that has been growing dozens of meters daily since last weekend is worrying the residents of a rural area of the Mexican state of Puebla, in the center of the country.

No Comment

Wandering elephants in China roam villages, wreck crops

A herd of 15 wandering elephants in southwestern China has been entering villages and gorging on crops, state media reported, causing millions of yuan in losses.

No Comment

Humanoid robot aims to read and react to human emotion

A humanoid robot called Abel is being developed to help recognise and react to human emotions.

No Comment

Lyon Danse Biennale

At the heart of this year's Biennale is Africa and young people, with performers from 16 African countries, including Nigerian choreographer Qudus Onikeku and his dancers.

No Comment

Thousands of Palestinian volunteers clean the debris in the streets of Gaza

Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in a campaign to clean up the destruction wreaked by Israel’s bombardment in its 11-day offensive.

No Comment

Taiwan: 'Spiderman and Ninja Turtle' donate food to frontline medical staff

A Taiwan restaurateur and his friends dress up as spiderman and ninja turtle while they deliver donations of lunch boxes to frontline medical staff, in an effort to put a smile on the island's healthcare workers as they deal with a sudden surge of infections.

No Comment

Through theatre, feminists protest against violence during demonstrations in Colombia

With a play relating the pain of mothers who lose a child, but also with a candlelight vigil, feminist organisations of Bogotá gathered to denounce the violence suffered by the demonstrators at the hands of the police in Colombia.