English Newsletters Events Podcasts Videos Africanews Search

United States

Europe News

Russia strikes across Ukraine as Zelenskyy-Trump strain grows

ADVERTISEMENT

ADVERTISEMENT

Europe News

Trump hails Greenland as 'second to none' for security of US

Trump signed a security deal with the leaders of Greenland and Denmark in September, which allows the US to build two military bases in the south and east of the island.

Europe News

EU paid $209bn for Russian energy, contradicts Moscow's $320bn claim

The European Commission pushed back against what appear to be inflated claims by Russia — and the United States — regarding the bloc’s spending on Russian energy since 2022.

USA

US actress Selma Blair arrested after in-flight altercation

US media said that Blair punched one flight attendant and bit another. The 54-year-old then reportedly assaulted a police officer and nurse as she was transported to hospital.

Economy

US economists win economics Nobel Prize for stabilisation models

The economics prize is the only Nobel not among the original five created in the will of Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896.

ADVERTISEMENT

Europe News

Trump says it is time for Ukraine to replace Zelenskyy as leader

US President Donald Trump said Ukraine needs a new president and blamed Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices.

Europe News

Pope Leo condemns death penalty,

Without explicitly referring to the scheduled execution of the Fort Hood killer, the Pope reiterates the Church’s opposition to the death penalty. In the US, Vice-President Vance says he will not watch the execution by firing squad, which is due to be live-streamed in December

USA

Masked ICE officers shoot a man while making an arrest in New York

Eyewitnesses say they saw a few masked officers wearing Department of Homeland Security branded clothes surrounding a man on the ground who appeared injured. They say they heard three or four gunshots being fired.

USA

US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after record

After more than 10 months at sea, the Lincoln made a stop in Thailand last month on its way back from the Middle East.

Europe News

Exclusive: G7’s 100-million-barrel pledge tied to March oil release

The October G7 announcement aims to accelerate and complete the IEA’s March emergency oil-stock release, rather than add a new 100-million-barrel pledge to the original 400 million, according to a document seen by Euronews.

Tech News

Laws, pledges or an iron grip? How the EU, US and China are reining in AI

The US, China and the EU are taking sharply different approaches to regulating artificial intelligence. Here is how the world's biggest economies are tackling the technology, and what is at stake.

Tech News

What to know about Mistral's new model in the US-China open AI race

Known as “Le Chonk,” the new frontier AI offering from French company Mistral says it will be the strongest open-weight AI outside China, as it bets that European "sovereignty" can win customers in a race increasingly framed as US versus China.

USA

Trump says US moved bombers from RAF Fairford after additional threats

Trump detailed that additional threats received by Washington prompted their moving of the military aircraft from the UK base they were deployed in.

USA

FBI arrests woman for spying on Taiwanese leader's family

Wanying “Heather” Zhang was arrested at the Los Angeles airport while boarding a flight to China and charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent.

Brazil

US suspends consular services in Brazil over security concerns

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and rival Flavio Bolsonaro are pulling no punches in a last-ditch effort to win voters ahead of Sunday's election in Brazil, where the US and Australia suspended consular services Friday over security concerns.

Europe News

Switzerland's president says he will quit government at end of year

A winegrower by trade, Parmelin is from the French-speaking western canton of Vaud. He is from the hard-right Swiss People's Party (SVP), which is the biggest in the country.

Europe News

France weighs emergency oil release as US pressure mounts ahead of G7

France is set to present a plan to release emergency oil stocks following US pressure, with Paris considering a combined release of crude oil and diesel. President Emmanuel Macron will hold a G7 call on Friday.