Sicily is assessing up to €1bn in damage after Cyclone Harry hit the Ionian coast, destroying infrastructure, homes, and tourism businesses. In an exclusive interview with Euronews, Cateno De Luca, mayor of Taormina, calls for urgent action.
Jan 23 - Syria's Interior Ministry said on Friday it had taken over al-Aktan prison in the city of Raqqa in northeastern Syria, a facility that was formerly under the control of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
By Anna Pruchnicka KYIV, Jan 23 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that the vital question of territory in Ukraine's war with Russia would be discussed at U.S.-brokered trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi on Friday and Saturday. Kyiv is under mounting U.S.
The company’s mega-constellation is having to perform a huge number of manoeuvres to prevent a collision in Earth orbit
China has no plans or ability to conquer Greenland, analysts say. But it does have wide-ranging ambitions to expand its presence across the Arctic region.
Iran's foreign minister on Friday launched a furious tirade against Volodymyr Zelensky after the Ukrainian president commented in Davos that the deadly crackdown on protests in the Islamic republic showed that if authorities "kill enough people" they stay in power. Zelensky,
Your chronological age can’t always tell you the state of your health, which is why biological clocks have been developed to show our risk of developing diseases or dying – but they’re not all they are cracked up to be, says columnist Graham Lawton
New research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical forests of the Andes and Amazon, driven by global change.
In this edition: gambling’s grip, a story of plumes and poachers, bemoaning American tourists in Rome, a magical history tour, and a fake poultry flinger.
IFFR keeps "championing filmmakers forging new paths in cinema," such as a creative tortured for his participation in a pro-democracy movement, who uses the pseudonym Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos.
There is also a human cost to China's clean energy transition.
The report said that the bus' braking system was "contaminated and inconsistent".
Cyclone Harry has devastated Sardinia, causing damages expected to reach hundreds of millions of euros, according to governor Alessandra Todde.
It is an expensive gamble, but also an attempt at technological emancipation from the major programmes of the past, in which Italy has often played a subordinate role.
By Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session on Friday to discuss the "alarming violence" used in Iran against protesters, while a group of states will call on United Nations' investigators to
Jan 23 (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog must clarify its stance on U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran's nuclear sites last June before inspectors are allowed to visit those facilities, Iranian media on Friday quoted the country's atomic chief as saying. Mohammad Eslami said
The new National Defence Industry Policy aims to reduce Malaysia’s reliance on foreign security and defence technology and bolster long-term domestic industrial capacity.
Raabta International is stepping into an increasingly crowded global marketplace as a new Spanish international sales outfit. The Madrid-based company has launched with a mandate to represent indie features and documentaries with clear commercial upside, aiming to strengthen
The US military meanwhile has moved more military assets toward the Middle East, including the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and associated warships.
Winter has its fans, but even those who enjoy playing in the snow probably dislike the chore of clearing up after a big storm that dumps several inches or even feet of snow and ice.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the European Union is prepared to provisionally implement the EU–Mercosur trade agreement as soon as Mercosur countries begin completing their ratification procedures, seeking to reassure partners after a European
The turboprop plane, chartered by the fisheries ministry, was carrying seven crew members and three civil servants when it lost contact with air traffic control on Jan 17.
Why are Iranians protesting? What will the EU’s and the US’s reactions be?
A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the surface protein integrin αIIbβ3 is not only a key molecule in blood clotting, but can also act as a pro-inflammatory effector during severe disease
An unusually brutal winter storm is set to pummel more than 160 million Americans from Friday, as a stretched "polar vortex" sends a devastating blast of Arctic air, bringing heavy snows and freezing rains.
BEIJING, Jan 23 - China defended its human rights record on Friday after UN experts said alleged forced labour involving Uyghurs and Tibetans in the Xinjiang region and other parts of China might amount to \"enslavement\".
Heathrow says it has become the biggest airport to drop the limit after rolling out new high-tech scanners.
BEIJING, Jan 23 - China's President Xi Jinping congratulated Vietnam's To Lam on his re-election as the ruling Communist Party's general secretary, praising Vietnam's achievements and describing the two nations as a \"community with a shared future.\"
UN experts said in a joint statement that forced labour was being enabled through a state-mandated programme.
Iran has once again appeared on the front pages, framed as a state on the brink. Protests in Iran have unfolded inside a dense fog of information warfare. Tehran’s self-imposed internet blackout has created a vacuum, and vacuums invite manipulation. Into that space rush foreign
As heatwave records are broken each year in Europe, countries across the continent are being hit particularly hard by climate change. However, Mediterranean countries aren't topping the list as expected.
In an interview on Euronews’ morning show Europe Today, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis rebuked US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” initiative. He also expressed relief at the de-escalation of tensions with the US over Greenland.
HANOI, Jan 23 - Vietnam's top leader To Lam was re-appointed on Friday as head of the ruling Communist Party for the next five years after a unanimous vote by its central committee, as he pledged to turbocharge growth in the export-reliant nation.
He was re-appointed on Jan 23 as the country’s most powerful official.
MADRID, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Spain will not take part in the Board of Peace initiative launched by U.S. President Donald Trump to tackle global conflicts, saying the decision was consistent with its belief in multilateralism and the United Nations system. "We appreciate the
The continuous stream of drug approvals by Chinese pharmaceutical companies should be a source of awe to any global innovation investor. There are multiple reasons that have led to the current point. However, one key contributor is China’s drug approval policy transformation,
Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds—structures long considered impossible—the team is opening the door to entirely new kinds
The passage, constructed somewhere between the years 90 and 98, allowed emperors to get to their seats without having to use the main entrances, the vomitoria, through which the masses would spew forth into the Colosseum.
Robots parade through the streets of Davos, Switzerland, during the World Economic Forum conference.
In 2024, the share of renewable energy sources in transport reached 11.2% at the EU level, a 0.2 percentage points (pp) increase from 2023. When the time series began in 2004, this share stood at 1.4%. The 2024 share was 17.8 pp lower than the 29% target for 2030 on the use of
A closer alliance between Meloni and Merz is on the horizon, with the ambition to change Europe after decades of dominance by the Franco-German axis.
In the one-party state, Lam was re-elected by all 180 party officials from a newly-formed committee at the end of the five-yearly party congress.
BEIJING, Jan 23 - Chinese leader Xi Jinping assured his Brazilian counterpart on Friday that China would stand by Latin America's biggest economy and the Global South, and called for both nations to maintain the role of the United Nations, state news agency Xinhua said.
It is a challenge for TikTok's parent company ByteDance as well as global ambitions for other Chinese tech companies.
The singer and reality TV star spoke out in support of the DEFIANCE Act, a bill that would protect victims of AI-generated, sexually explicit content
Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its evolutionary purpose may be to deter mushroom-munching insects
