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Despite extensive collaboration and cutting-edge research, turning research into local patient care remains a serious challenge.

Despite extensive collaboration and cutting-edge research, turning research into local patient care remains a serious challenge.

People around the world marked the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre on Friday. In July 1995, during the Bosnian war, Bosnian-Serb forces invaded a protection zone set up by the United Nations and killed over 8,000 Bosniaks. The crime is now internationally recognised as genocide. A look at Europe's press shows why remembrance is still so important.

A new round in the tariff dispute: US President Trump has announced 30-percent tariffs on goods from the EU and Mexico as of 1 August. The EU Commission is pinning its hopes on the ongoing negotiations - the introduction of counter-tariffs on US goods, which was originally scheduled for today, has been postponed until the end of the month. Commentators take a closer look at Trump's strategy and Europe's resilience.

Thirty members of the Kurdish PKK burnt their weapons in northern Iraq on Friday in a symbolic step towards ending their insurgency against the Turkish state, which began in 1984. One of the group's leaders said that they would now try to achieve their goals by political means. The press examines the prospects for the peace process.

The Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has launched proceedings against Vitaliy Shabunin, the head of the Anti-Corruption Action Centre and one of the country's best-known civil society activists. Because he also serves as a volunteer in the army, he is now accused of evading military service and using an army vehicle for private purposes. The media sound the alarm.