00:00Icelanders are voting in a referendum to decide whether to resume talks on joining the European
00:06Union 13 years after they were broken off.
00:10A necklace worth several million dollars has been stolen from Vienna's museum in the latest
00:15high-profile European Museum Heist.
00:20Polls have opened in Iceland in a referendum on whether to resume their EU accession bid
00:26or shelve the prospect of joining the bloc for the foreseeable future.
00:31Polling stations are open from 9am to 10pm local time with voters deciding whether to return
00:38to membership negotiations or reject even exploring what a deal would look like.
00:44Of Iceland's roughly 400,000 population, around 265,000 are eligible to vote.
00:51A yes vote would not commit the Nordic nation to joining the EU, but it would reopen accession
00:57talks with the EU's executive branch, the European Commission, with any eventual membership deal
01:03put to another referendum.
01:05Iceland applied to join the EU in 2009.
01:08However, a new Eurosceptive government took office in 2013 and suspended EU accession talks.
01:14Iceland's left-leaning government, elected in 2024, originally vowed to hold the vote next
01:20year but brought it forward because of rising geopolitical tension over Russia's war in Ukraine
01:27and U.S. President Donald Trump's claim to Greenland.
01:32Russian drone strikes across Ukraine have killed two people and wounded at least seven
01:36damaging homes, warehouses and energy infrastructure.
01:40In Zaporizhia, a drone struck a Home Improvement hypermarket wounding four people
01:44and setting fire to around 2,000 square meters of the building.
01:48Beyond Zaporizhia, attacks were reported in Kyiv, Somi, Kharkiv and Kherson.
01:54One person was killed and two wounded in the Kyiv region while homes and apartment buildings were damaged.
01:59In Kherson, a Russian drone strike killed a 61-year-old man hours after authorities urged residents
02:05to leave amid worsening attacks.
02:08The city's combined heat and power plant was also hit by four guided aerial bombs,
02:13destroying its remaining heating and power equipment and leaving it inoperable.
02:18Ukraine's energy company Naftogaz said the damage was critical.
02:22Since July, Russia has dropped around 170 guided bombs on Kherson region, according to local authorities.
02:32A Van Cleef and Arpel's necklace worth several million dollars has been stolen from Vienna's
02:38Museum of Applied Arts in the latest high-profile European Museum heist.
02:43Police said two men bought tickets, entered the museum and smashed a glass display case
02:48with a hammer before fleeing with the jewelry.
02:50Apparently, they did not wear masks and did not care about being recorded as their faces could be clearly seen
02:55on security footage.
02:57The stolen necklace features 200 carats and 673 precious stones.
03:02It was designed for Egypt's former royal family and was famously worn by Queen Nazli in 1939.
03:08Beyond Vienna, the theft follows a series of major museum raids across Europe.
03:14Thieves targeted the treasure of Villena in Spain, while four works by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina
03:20were stolen from a museum in Sicily.
03:22The wave of heists follows last year's Louvre burglary in Paris,
03:27where thieves escaped with jewelry valued at around 87.6 million euros.
03:36Two weeks before Celine Dion's first concert in Paris, Dion Mania has reached a new peak in the city.
03:41In front of the Royal Monceau Luxury Hotel, where she will be staying for the next two months,
03:46a crowd gathered to welcome the singer.
03:49On Friday, August 28th, Celine Dion arrived in Paris to begin rehearsals for her historic concert series.
03:55Her schedule is packed with 16 concerts scheduled between September 12th and October 17th.
04:00In total, the singer has scheduled three concerts per week on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
04:06Each will draw more than 30,000 spectators and all have been sold out for months.
04:11Ten additional concerts were added in May 2027.
04:15Aside from a performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Celine hasn't sung in France for nearly 10 years.
04:22Yet the love story between Celine Dion and France is enduring.
04:26In total, 15 of her 27 studio albums have been recorded in French.
04:31It's therefore no surprise that the singer chose Paris for her grand return to the stage.
04:36For six years, Celine took a break from performing for health reasons.
04:41The star has difficulty singing due to stiff person syndrome, from which she suffers.
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