00:00U.S. peace invoices Kushner and Witkoff arrived in Kyiv on Sunday for their first visit a day after holding
00:06talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
00:10Germany's far-right AFD won a commanding victory in Sunday's Saxenian halt election but fell short of the seats needed
00:16for a majority.
00:20France has announced that it will officially abandon the Mercator projection to better reflect the physical reality of the planet.
00:31Talks in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv between U.S. peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Ukrainian President
00:39Volodymyr Zelensky and his team have begun, according to Zelensky.
00:44Kushner and Witkoff arrived in Kyiv on Sunday for their first visit, a day after holding talks with Russia's President
00:52Vladimir Putin.
00:53The talks focus on ending the more than four years of war, which began with Russia's full-scale invasion of
01:00Ukraine in February 2022.
01:03Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin aide, called U.S. talks with Putin extremely frank and said that the U.S. had
01:10multiple ideas on possible routes to a settlement.
01:13Meanwhile, a White House official told media that Russia had told the Americans that Moscow was confident it could seize
01:22the rest of eastern Ukraine.
01:24Despite both leaders agreeing to halt strikes during the talks on their mutual capitals, attacks continued on other parts of
01:31the countries.
01:32Russia reportedly attacked Ukraine with 108 drones, while Russian air defense claims to have destroyed 258 Ukrainian drones last night.
01:46Germany's far-right AfD won a commanding victory in Sunday's Saxony-Anhalt election, but fell short of the seats needed
01:52for a majority.
01:54Final results gave the party 43.8% of the vote and 39 seats in the 83-member state parliament.
02:01The CDU came a distant second with 17.2% and 15 seats.
02:05The Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party each won eight seats, leaving AfD's opponents with a difficult task of forming
02:12a stable government without it.
02:14AfD candidate for governor Ulrich Siegmund said the party had written history and had a clear mandate to govern.
02:21The result marked a major setback for Chancellor Friedrich Marx, whose CDU had led Saxony-Anhalt for 24 years.
02:28The party has campaigned on tougher migration policies and lifting sanctions against Russia,
02:32although foreign policy remains outside the powers of German states.
02:37Turnout reached 77.8%, one of the highest levels in recent elections.
02:45A shrunken Africa and Greenland and Siberia stretched out of all proportion on French diplomatic maps that's now a thing
02:53of the past.
02:55French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barreau has officially announced that his ministry is abandoning the so-called Mercator projection.
03:02In favour of a cartographic representation that more accurately reflects the true size of the continents, Africa in particular.
03:10Paris has opted for the Eckert IV projection, which is similar to the Equal Earth projection in line with the
03:16Correct the Map resolution, sponsored by Togo and the African Union, which was approved at the United Nations on Friday.
03:23The change won't happen overnight, the process is already underway, Euronews has learned from diplomatic sources.
03:30As early as 2021, the ministry began scaling back its use of the Mercator projection in order to provide what
03:37it says is a more accurate geographical representation of the world.
03:45Germany has just taken a historic step in space.
03:49The Spectrum rocket, built by ISAR Aerospace, lifted off from Andoya's spaceport in Norway and delivered its payload into low
03:57Earth orbit.
03:57This was the rocket's second flight. Its first attempt in 2025 ended just 30 seconds after launch, crashing into the
04:05sea.
04:06With this launch, ISAR Aerospace becomes the first European company to reach orbit with a rocket of its own, achieving
04:13the opening milestone of the European Space Agency's European Launcher Challenge.
04:18Spectrum stands 28 meters tall and 2 meters wide. Powered by 10 engines, 9 in the first stage, 1 in
04:25the second, it can carry up to 1,000 kilograms into low Earth orbit.
04:30On this flight, named Onward and Upward, it carried six commercial and educational payloads, including several CubeSats and a scientific
04:37experiment.
04:39ISAR Aerospace's success puts Andoya's spaceport on the map as a real option for launching low-Earth orbit satellites from
04:46continental Europe.
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