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EuroWire, BRUSSELS: The European Commission said on April 9 that free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz must be maintained without tolls or transit fees, setting out the bloc’s clearest position yet on a proposal to charge vessels using one

EuroWire, EXETER: Much of the United Kingdom was set to experience the warmest weather of the year on Wednesday, with the Met Office forecasting temperatures as high as 26 degrees Celsius after several days of unseasonably mild conditions. The agency

EuroWire, ULYANOVSK: At least 55 adult passengers sought medical help after an overnight passenger train linking Moscow and Chelyabinsk derailed in Russia’s Ulyanovsk region on April 3, with seven coaches leaving the track near Bryandino and no deaths reported. Regional

EuroWire, LUXEMBOURG: Returns of non-EU citizens from the European Union to third countries rose 13% in the fourth quarter of 2025 from a year earlier, even as the number of people ordered to leave the bloc declined, according to data

EuroWire, BRUSSELS: The European Union gave final approval on Monday to a new digital recruitment platform designed to connect non-EU jobseekers living outside the bloc with employers in member states facing labor shortages. The Council adopted the regulation establishing the

EuroWire, BRUSSELS: The European Union has proposed an emergency brake mechanism to manage participant numbers in negotiations with Britain over a new youth exchange scheme, offering a safeguard that could be used if flows rise beyond an agreed level rather

EuroWire, LONDON: More than 13 million people in the United Kingdom were living in relative poverty in the year to March 2025, according to official government figures that showed little overall movement in the national poverty rate but a rise

EuroWire, LUXEMBOURG: First-time asylum applications in the European Union fell 27% in 2025, marking a second straight annual decline as 669,400 non-EU citizens sought international protection for the first time, down from 912,400 in 2024, according to Eurostat. The figures

EuroWire, BRUSSELS: Road deaths in the European Union fell by 3% in 2025, with about 19,400 people killed across the bloc, according to preliminary European Commission figures released on March 24. That marked around 580 fewer deaths than in 2024

EuroWire, DUBLIN: Ireland’s Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has warned consumers and professional users to stop using selected Petzl climbing and rope-access products after identifying fall hazards in two separate safety notices issued on March 19. The regulator said about