Two people were injured on Thursdayight when a drone struck a block of flats in Galați, Romania. According to official reports the drone was Russian and carrying an explosive payload. At the same time, the Ukrainian Danube port of Reni, 20 kilometres away, was attacked. Romania ordered the closure of the Russian Consulate General in Constanța. Commentators see this response as insufficient.

Despite a series of corruption scandals, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is clinging to his post: at a congress of his party's youth organisation on Sunday, he ruled outew elections. Police raided the headquarters of his Socialist Party (PSOE) in Madrid last week, and former socialist prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been placed under investigation over alleged influence-peddling.

In its fight against the Hezbollah militia the Israeli army has advanced further into southern Lebanon, capturing the strategically and symbolically important Beaufort Castle and raising the Israeli flag there for the first time in 26 years. The foreign ministers of Germany, France and the UK have criticised the advance and called on both Israel and Hezbollah to cease hostilities.

Scenes of violence have overshadowed Paris Saint-Germain's (PSG) victory over Arsenal in the Champions League final on Saturday: clashes broke out between masked individuals and the police in 15 French cities, mostly in the Paris region. French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said 416 people were arrested across the country.