00:00The European Commission has called on Hungary to clarify reports claiming Hungary's foreign minister regularly shared sensitive EU information to
00:08his Russian counterpart.
00:10Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni conceded defeat Monday in a referendum on judicial reform but said she would not resign.
00:22The European Commission has called on Hungary to clarify reports claiming Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyarto regularly shared sensitive information
00:31from European Union meetings to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
00:36The reports regarding the Hungarian foreign minister allegedly disclosing to his Russian counterpart the closed-door ministerial-level discussion in
00:47the council are greatly concerning.
00:49And a relationship of trust between member states and between them and the institution is fundamental for the work of
00:58the EU.
00:59And we expect the Hungarian government to provide the clarifications.
01:03First reported by the Washington Post, several current and former European security officials were cited saying Siyarto regularly calls Lavrov
01:12during breaks in European council meetings with direct reports on what was discussed.
01:18The Hungarian government denied the allegations, calling them fake news.
01:23The reports are explosive as EU member states are bound by the principle of sincere cooperation and the content of
01:29the meetings is understood to be confidential.
01:32Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was among the first to condemn the revelations, saying they came as no surprise.
01:39The reports emerged as political tensions rise ahead of Hungary's parliamentary elections.
01:44Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is one of the few in Europe to maintain regular ties with the Kremlin.
01:51His Fidesz party faces a strong challenge from opposition leader Peter Magyar's Tissa party, which is leading in opinion polls.
02:01Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni conceded defeat Monday in a referendum on judicial reform, but said she would not resign.
02:28Voters rejected the constitutional reform with around 55% voting no and 45% voting yes based on nearly all
02:37the votes counted.
02:38Turnout reached nearly 59%.
02:41The reform would have split Italy's judiciary into separate career paths for judges and prosecutors,
02:48divided the superior council of the magistracy into two bodies and created a new disciplinary court.
02:54Parliament approved the reform in October 2025, but it failed to secure the two-thirds majority needed to avoid a
03:02popular vote.
03:06The European Commission took final steps to provisionally apply the Mercosur trade deal from the 1st of May,
03:13covering Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
03:17The move uses a special procedure to ensure the deal takes effect despite a judicial review launched by the European
03:24Parliament
03:24after a pivotal vote suspended ratification on the 21st of January.
03:30The priority now is turning this EU-Mercosur agreement into concrete outcomes,
03:35giving EU exporters the platform they need to seize new opportunities for trade, growth and jobs.
03:41EU Trade Commissioner Marcos Sefcovic said,
03:44adding provisional application will allow the EU to begin delivering on that promise.
03:49The agreement liberalizes trade flows between the EU and Mercosur countries,
03:54creating a free trade area of more than 700 million people.
03:58The Commission signed off on the deal and secured backing from EU member states,
04:03despite strong opposition from EU farmers who fear unfair competition for Mercosur imports.
04:12Johannes Hahn has resigned from his position as the European Union Special Envoy for Cyprus,
04:18the European Commission announced.
04:21The former lawmaker cited other commitments as the reason behind his resignation
04:26in a letter he sent to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and to the UN.
04:32A spokesperson for the European Union was asked about this development during a press briefing in Brussels.
04:39Mr. Hahn has stepped down from his position as Commission Special Envoy due to other conquering commitments.
04:46The Commission respects Mr. Hahn's decision and thanks for his valuable contribution to the settlement process over the last year.
04:55And the President will decide on the next steps in due course.
05:00Johannes Hahn was appointed to his post in May last year following months of efforts by Negocia,
05:05urging the European Union's substantive involvement in the Cyprus issue.
05:12The trial for the Dembe tragedy has begun in Larissa.
05:15The first day was marked by intense protest by the victims' families.
05:19The trial was interrupted four times.
05:22The lawyers requested a suspension of the proceedings until the Greek Supreme Court can rule on the conditions
05:27in the hall where the trial was set to begin.
05:29We came here to defend ourselves and we have to defend ourselves three years without being a leader in the
05:34prison.
05:35From there and beyond, we will be able to defend all the categories that will be held in the prison.
05:40From there and beyond, everyone, with his lawyers and with the legal road,
05:46we will try to do what he thinks is the best for the people.
05:49Outside the building, hundreds of citizens demonstrated and demanded exemplary punishment for the accused.
05:56At the same time, there was tension inside the courtroom.
06:00Shame was the slogan that dominated the protest of the relatives of the victims,
06:04as the available seats were 120 in the 283 square meter hall.
06:10Several of the 250 lawyers taking part in the trial, as well as journalists, were left standing.
06:16At one point, the court asked the press representative to leave for reasons of capacity.
06:26It has been three years since the deadly train accident that claimed the lives of 57 people.
06:40The head of the International Energy Agency said Monday that the global economy faces a major, major threat because of
06:48the Iran war.
06:50Fatih Birol told Australia's National Press Club in Canberra that the war in the Middle East has severely damaged
06:56more than 40 energy assets across nine countries, as he warned of deepening risks to the global economy.
07:03I think no country will be immune to the effects of this crisis if it continues to go in this
07:16direction.
07:16So there is a need for global efforts around the world.
07:20He said the crisis in the Middle East has had a worse combined impact than the two oil shocks of
07:27the 1970s
07:28and the effect on gas markets of the Russia-Ukraine war.
07:31Oil prices continued to climb as the end of the Iran war was not in sight.
07:36The official added that he was consulting with governments in Europe and Asia
07:41about the prospect of releasing further stockpiled oil.
07:49A military cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off in southwestern Colombia on Monday,
07:56causing what the country's defense minister described as, quote,
07:59an undetermined number of casualties.
08:02Images circulating online showed large plumes of smoke rising above an empty field where the aircraft had crashed
08:09as trucks carrying more soldiers rushed to the site.
08:12The incident occurred over the remote Amazonian municipality of Puerto Leguizame,
08:17which borders Peru and Ecuador.
08:20Colombian army officials say the plane experienced problems immediately after takeoff.
08:49The Colombian general detailed that 114 people and 11 crew members
08:55were aboard the Hercules C-130 plane,
08:57a military transport aircraft designed to carry up to 120 people.
09:02The plane was carrying soldiers over to the nearby province of Puerto Assis,
09:07some 220 kilometers away.
09:10Authorities noted that while it's not yet clear how many people were killed in the crash,
09:1448 people have been confirmed rescued and are receiving treatment.
09:24The pilot and co-pilot of an Air Canada plane were killed in a collision with a fire truck on
09:29a runway
09:30while landing at New York's LaGuardia airport late on Sunday.
09:34Photos and videos from the scene showed severe damage to the front of the aircraft,
09:39with cables and debris hanging from a mangled cockpit.
09:43Nearby, a damaged emergency vehicle could be seen lying on its side.
09:49Forty-one passengers and crew members were taken to nearby hospitals,
09:53some with serious injuries.
09:55Most have since been released from treatment, authorities said.
09:59The fire truck was traveling across the runway to respond to a separate incident
10:04aboard a United Airlines flight,
10:06whose pilot had reported an issue with odor, they added.
10:10The airport will remain closed until at least 2 p.m. on Monday
10:14to facilitate the investigation,
10:16which is being led by the National Transportation Safety Board.
10:22The exhibition Matisse 1941-1954,
10:27which highlights the final years of French painter Henri Matisse,
10:30opens its doors at the Grand Palais in Paris.
10:33More than 300 paintings, drawings, books and cut-out gouaches
10:38trace this key period in the artist's life considered his most prolific.
10:42This period had been for Matisse, who was still a old artist,
10:47since he was 70 years old, 1941, 84 years old when he was in 1954 at Nice.
10:54It was the most prolific, among the most prolific of his career of painter.
10:59It was the moment where he was reinventing through a medium,
11:04which is the of the gouache découpé.
11:06And through this medium, he was creating works
11:09which will be more and more monumental.
11:11And it's this aspect of Matisse that we will be able to discover in Paris.
11:14The exhibition spans two floors,
11:17and the works are presented in an atmosphere
11:19inspired by the artist's working conditions.
11:23What we wanted to restrain in the exhibition
11:25and in the journey of the exhibition,
11:27is this intimacy with the workshop,
11:29to be able to enter Matisse's workshop,
11:31to be able to meet the works like we were in Matisse's workshop.
11:34The exhibition brings together the painter's best-known works
11:39alongside pieces that remain little known in France
11:42and runs until July 6.
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