Month: August 2026

Canadairs and helicopters battle a wildfire that has burned around 100 hectares in France’s Corbières massif near Narbonne after a road accident.

With Mohamed Salah joining Trabzonspor, the city expects more visitors, especially Egyptian and Arab fans, reinforcing its status as a destination for tourism and sport.

US President Donald Trump, long a critic of wind energy, has repeatedly dismissed wind turbines as unsightly and has labelled them an “economic and environmental disaster.”

LONDON — The ruling Labour Party lost a fifth of its members last year as Keir Starmer’s government was hit by scandal, deployed unpopular policies and was forced into a raft of U-turns. The extent of the exodus from the governing party — which was led by Starmer until he resigned as prime minister in…

“Yesterday’s announcement that some people employed by the FIFA President (and whose careers depend on his favour) agree with him changes nothing,” UEFA said in a statement on Thursday.

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this August 6th, 2026 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

About 400 Spin Time residents sleep outside in Rome after a fire forced their evacuation, with volunteers helping during a heatwave.

Kazakhstan released the Amur tiger Umit into the Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve, marking a key step in a project to restore a wild tiger population to Central Asia for the first time in more than 70 years.

The statement came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had not agreed to a US-backed plan for Gaza.

President Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. Trump’s attorneys filed the emergency stay motion Wednesday with Miami-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett, urging her to lift the order she…