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00:01Pro-Western independent candidate Niku Sordhan has won the Romanian presidential elections with a firm 54% of the votes.
00:11Rafal Czaskowski and Karol Nowrowski will head for a runoff after the first round of Poland's presidential election.
00:21The ruling's center-right Democratic alliance has won Portugal's general election with 32% of the votes.
00:30Israel says it is letting a basic amount of food into Gaza after a nearly three-month blockade, citing a need to enable the expansion of intense fighting.
00:43Pro-West independent candidate Niku Sordhan staged a dramatic comeback on Sunday to win the Romanian presidential elections with a firm 54% of the votes.
01:00It is a victory of thousands of people who have made the campaign for these days, who have believed that Romania can change in the correct direction.
01:12Don's hard-right contender George Simeon received 46% of the votes in the unprecedented political thriller which transfixed and polarized the Eastern European country.
01:25Don's hard-right contender George Simeon received 46% of the votes in the unprecedented political thriller which transfixed and polarized the Eastern European country.
01:38Don's hard-right contender George Simeon received 49% of the votes in the votes.
01:43Don't agree with me.
01:45Don't agree with me.
01:47Don't agree with you.
01:48DON'T agree with you.
01:49Don't agree with you.
01:51Don't agree with us.
01:53Don't agree with us.
01:54I've been single against a whole system, single against everyone.
02:03I'm proud of you and I hope I represent you with strength.
02:10Romania's choice brings a sigh of relief for the EU, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova at a crucial time for all.
02:18But the deep divisions in fractured Romanian society, represented by the small difference in the votes,
02:24mean that future President Dan faces a massive challenge to reunite the country
02:28and address the looming economic turmoil gripping Romania.
02:38More than 10 million voters were called this Sunday to choose the 230 members of the Portuguese parliament.
02:45The center-right AD coalition won again, reinforcing its result of a year ago, although without a majority.
02:54The big surprise of the night was the Socialist Party, which obtained its worst result in 38 years.
03:00Pedro Nuno Santos resigned and guaranteed that he would not run for the Socialist leadership again.
03:09Despite getting more votes, the PS won the same number of seats as Chega, 58.
03:15The liberal initiative surpassed last year's result by electing its ninth MP, followed by LIV, which doubled its parliamentary representation.
03:27Another surprise on election night was Juntos pelo povo, which was elected to the national parliament for the first time.
03:33Com apenas 89 mandatos, a AD não tem condições para formar maioria, nem com um possível entendimento com a iniciativa liberal, nem com os votos da imigração.
03:45Luís Montenegro terá novamente a vida dificultada, ficando refém do PS e do Chega para aprovar o próximo programa de governo e futuros orçamentos.
03:56Joana Mourão Carvalho, para a Euronews, em Lisboa.
04:04More than 10 million voters were called this Sunday to choose the 230 members of the Portuguese parliament.
04:11The centre-right AD coalition won again, reinforcing its result of a year ago, although without a majority.
04:18The big surprise of the night was the Socialist Party, which obtained its worst result in 38 years.
04:28Pedro Nuno Santos resigned and guaranteed that he would not run for the Socialist leadership again.
04:36Despite getting more votes, the PS won the same number of seats as Chega, 58.
04:41The liberal initiative surpassed last year's result by electing its 9th MP, followed by LIV, which doubled its parliamentary representation.
04:53Another surprise on election night was Juntos Belupovo, which was elected to the National Parliament for the first time.
04:59Com apenas 89 mandatos, a AD não tem condições para formar maioria, nem com um possível entendimento com a iniciativa liberal, nem com os votos da imigração.
05:10Luís Montenegro terá novamente a vida dificultada, ficando refém do PS e do Chega para aprovar o próximo programa de governo e futuros orçamentos.
05:22Joana Maron Carvalho, para a Euronews, em Lisboa.
05:29Israel says it is letting a basic amount of food into Gaza after a nearly three-month blockade, citing a need to enable the expansion of intense fighting.
05:40Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his Cabinet was acting at the recommendation of the IDF to prevent a hunger crisis, which they say would endanger their newest ground offensive.
05:52A leading authority on the severity of hunger crisis said nearly 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza are already living in catastrophic levels of hunger and face possible starvation.
06:20Food security experts warned last week that Gaza would likely fall into famine if Israel doesn't lift its blockade and stop its military campaign.
06:30Tens of thousands of red-clad protesters marched through the Hague on Sunday to demand government action to seek a hold to Israel's campaign in Gaza.
06:43Organizers called it the country's biggest demonstration in two decades, with human rights groups and aid agencies estimating the peaceful crowd at more than 100,000 people.
06:56Protesters walked a five-kilometer loop around the city center of the Hague to symbolically create the red line they say the government has failed to set.
07:05The march went past the peace palace.
07:34Where last year judges at the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide in Gaza.
07:44Demonstrators gathered to protest against Tenerife's mass tourism and its environmental impact on Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday.
07:57The protest was organized by the collective Canary Islands have a limit and called for a shift towards more sustainable and equitable forms of tourism.
08:09Demonstrations also took place on the archipelago's main islands and in several cities in mainland Spain.
08:21According to the Canary Islands Statistics Institute, the region received almost 18 million tourists in 2024.
08:39Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney hosted transatlantic talks between US Vice President J.D. Vance and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Rome on Sunday.
09:01The discussions were aimed to help trade talks progress between the US and the EU.
09:07Vance called Europe an important ally even though they had some disagreements.
09:15Europe is an important ally of the United States.
09:19The individual countries within Europe are important allies of the United States.
09:22But of course we have some disagreements as friends sometimes do on issues like trade.
09:27Meanwhile, von der Leyen said she hoped it could mark a new beginning in transatlantic relations.
09:34She highlighted the significant trade partnership of more than 1.3 trillion euros per year between the two, calling it the largest trade relationship in the world.
09:45Polish duo Swara and Nichos are bringing a new beat to traditional Slavic music.
09:52Using white singing, a traditional vocal technique from the Podlasia region in eastern Poland,
09:57they aim to show that tradition does not have to be left in the past and that it can evolve into the modern day.
10:03We recorded a teledysk on the beautiful podlaskian world,
10:08I remember, on the west of the sun.
10:10And then we liked it so much, that we continued to explore this topic.
10:14So, the music from the whole world, which we explore here,
10:18and the podlaskian songs, the places in our local culture.
10:25When I was a very small girl, I had to learn to learn to learn to learn to learn to learn to learn.
10:31The music from the world, the music from the world.
10:34So, the music from the world is not my own.
10:37I always loved it.
10:38It's a beautiful tradition of tradition and culture.
10:48The music from the tradition is very strong, very strong, very strong.
10:52It's a great sound.
10:54It's very melodious and very plastic.
10:56You can say a lot about it.
10:58On the other hand, I feel that I can distance myself,
11:01singing not in the language, which is my first language,
11:04but in the language that I learned from a few years ago.
11:08On the west, I think, all of us speak in this language.
11:11We at home, in the city, in Bielsku,
11:13it's not so much, but on the west,
11:15all the babies say,
11:17and where are they?
11:18And where are they?
11:19And where are they?
11:20And where are they?
11:21Exactly.
11:22We use it.
11:23We still use it.
11:24We use it.
11:25We use it.
11:26We use it.
11:27We use it.
11:28We use it.
11:29We use it.
11:30We use it.
11:31We use it.
11:32We use it.
11:33We use it.
11:34We use it.
11:35We use it.
11:36We use it.
11:37Soare and Nichos reach for the musical roots of the past
11:40and give them a contemporary form.
11:42They reflect the very borderlands they come from,
11:44geographical, cultural and generational.
11:47It's a bigger one or more generational song.
11:48For instance,