00:01U.S. President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on 60 countries that the U.S. claims failed to properly stop
00:07forced labor.
00:10A number of wildfires continue to burn across much of Southern Europe, with high temperatures and strong winds fueling the
00:18blazes.
00:20U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to use frozen Iranian assets to pay for damage to ships and cargo in
00:27and around the Gulf.
00:32The U.S. President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on dozens of countries that the U.S. claims failed to
00:47properly stop forced labor.
00:49The new duties, which range from 10 to 12.5 percent, will replace global tariffs that rolled out earlier this
00:56year and expire on Friday.
00:58The tariffs announced on Thursday will affect 60 countries, including China, India and the European Union.
01:05Together, they account for 99 percent of U.S. imports.
01:11Trump had already imposed double-digit tariffs on almost every country in the world last year.
01:16But the Supreme Court ruled in February that the U.S. President did not have legal authority to do so.
01:23As a result, the administration had to pay refunds, and instead Trump announced temporary tariffs of 10 percent.
01:29These have now expired and will be replaced with the new tariffs.
01:34The decision has already drawn widespread criticism from impacted nations.
01:39However, the new tariffs are considered more resistant to legal challenges than the previous.
01:48A number of wildfires continue to burn across much of southern Europe, with high temperatures and strong winds fueling the
01:56blazes.
01:56Spain has declared a national emergency over wildfires threatening the Madrid region.
02:02Authorities said on Friday morning that some fires remain out of control, although emergency crews have reportedly been able to
02:09somewhat limit their spread.
02:11Thousands of people have been evacuated from the region.
02:16Meanwhile, France has asked for help from the European Union and has requested the activation of the bloc's civil protection
02:23mechanism.
02:24French President Emmanuel Macron said the situation remains tense, especially in the region of Gironde.
02:32And in Italy, thousands of emergency responders, including firefighters, forest guards and civil protection officers, have been battling fires on
02:41the island of Sicily.
02:43As of Wednesday, wildfires have burned over 250,000 hectares across the EU since the start of the year.
02:54U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to use frozen Iranian assets to pay for damage to ships and cargo
03:01in and around the Gulf.
03:02Trump wrote on his social media platform, that, quote, any and all damages done to ships, cargo or anything related
03:12thereto will be paid for by Iranian money that the United States has in its possession and controls.
03:19In response to Trump's statement, Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Arachi, said Friday, the seizure of the assets to pay for
03:27shipping damage was, quote, an incendiary precedent.
03:31The latest exchange comes as the U.S. launched a 13th consecutive night of strikes on Iran, targeting military and
03:38commercial sites.
03:39Iranian state media reported explosions in the port city of Bandar Abbas, a key hub for military supplies and trade
03:47cargo, as well as on Qashem Island, home to naval assets capable of attacking vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
03:56For Iran's part, Iranian state TV shared footage it claimed shows missile launches at targets in the Gulf region.
04:04Meanwhile, as Washington and Tehran continued their standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, a new front emerged in the region
04:12with Yemen's Iran-backed Uthis, threatening to shut down another key trade route.
04:20Ireland says it has found, quote, no evidence to irrefutably determine its alumina exports to Russia contribute to propping up
04:29Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
04:32In a statement released on Friday, Ireland's Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Peter Burke, stated this.
04:41It comes amid an international spat over an investigation published by the Irish Times earlier this year that suggested output
04:50from the Harnesh Aluminate plant in Western Ireland was sold to a trading house that supplies a major military industrial
04:58hub in Russia.
04:59The ambivalent conclusion had been previewed on Thursday by Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin during his visit to Kyiv.
05:07The internal probe, which looked into corporate data, trade flows, media reports and information provided by the Ukrainian and Swedish
05:16governments, has been shared with the European Commission for its consideration, the minister noted.
05:21Virtually all alumina cells from the EU to Russia come from the Harnesh Aluminate, a sprawling Russian-owned refinery in
05:31Western Ireland.
05:37The future Eurobank nodes are taking shape, and this time, European citizens themselves will have a say.
05:44European Central Bank President Christian Lagarde unveiled the 10 shortlisted designs on Thursday, from which the new bank nodes will
05:51be chosen.
05:51From more than 1,200 proposals considered, two broad themes ultimately emerged as the strongest ways of representing the continent's
06:00identity.
06:01One focuses on figures who have left their mark on the history of art, music, science and literature.
06:08The other features rivers and birds as symbols of Europe's biodiversity and the need to protect it.
06:14Should the cultural theme be selected, the new bank nodes would feature some of the most influential figures in European
06:21history, including Leonardo da Vinci, Soprano Maria Callas, Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and Beethoven.
06:28Should the nature theme be chosen instead, the new bank nodes would depict several European bird species, each shown in
06:35a river landscape alongside major European Union institutions featured on the rivers.
06:41EU citizens will be able to express their preferences between the two themes through a survey on the ECB's website.
06:48Once the winning design has been selected, the ECB will proceed with the technical stages required to produce the new
06:54bank nodes, which are expected to enter circulation from the end of 2026.
07:01Activists behind the far-right Save Europe Act campaign are taking the European Commission to court after it refused to
07:08register a petition calling for a suspension of
07:10legal migration of legal migration channels and the re-migration of legal third-country nationals deemed unintegrated.
07:17The Commission rejected the initiative on Thursday, arguing it would discriminate on the grounds of race and ethnic origin and
07:25was therefore manifestly contrary to EU values.
07:29Austrian activist Martin Schellner, the movement's leader, told Euronews their legal team is ready to file a lawsuit as early
07:36as Monday.
07:37The petition calls for a temporary suspension of non-Western immigration channels, including study and family reunification visas,
07:45and the return of legally-resident non-European nationals considered a serious cultural or financial burden.
07:52The campaign is backed by nationalist figures including Hungary's Viktor Orban, Spain's Santiago Abascal, Romania's George Simeon and Italy's Roberto
08:01Vanacci.
08:01While European citizens' initiatives require one million signatures from at least seven member states to be considered by EU institutions,
08:10the campaign says it has gathered nearly 600,000 signatures informally.
08:15Welcoming the rejection, Greens MEP Cristina Guarda described the petition as hate propaganda promoted by the far-right.
08:28The United States and Saudi Arabia have signed a nuclear agreement that would allow the kingdom to develop a civilian
08:36nuclear program.
08:38The Trump administration hasn't released the details of the deal, but the framework would give Saudi Arabia the ability to
08:45enrich uranium through its own facility.
08:48The agreement was signed alongside what they say are bilateral safeguards against non-proliferation.
08:55In a statement, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright noted that the highest standards of nuclear safety and non-proliferation
09:04would be upheld.
09:05Uranium enrichment can produce fuel for nuclear power plants, but the same technology can also be used to build nuclear
09:13weapons.
09:14Because of this, U.S. lawmakers from both parties have voiced opposition to the idea of a civilian nuclear project
09:21for Saudi Arabia.
09:23The deal, which still needs to be sent to Congress for review, is expected to last 30 years and would
09:29involve using American technology to develop the program.
09:33The deal reportedly does not include the International Atomic Energies Agency additional protocol, which would allow for more monitoring, inspections
09:43and verification.
10:12The verhofestation
10:14The entourage of the National Atomic Energies Agency
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