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The US trial of Trump's former campaign manager has shown how Kremlin cronies used Cyprus to channel shady money.

Sweden's first big party leader TV debate ahead of September elections was marked by the burning of dozen of cars in cities across the south-west of the country.

Some 37 citizens, from Europe and elsewhere, are suing the European Parliament and Council for adopting climate laws that they say are not ambitious enough.

Italy's deputy premier Matteo Salvini has called into question whether Italy should respect European Union budget rules after a 50-year old bridge in Genoa collapsed on Tuesday and killed at least 35 people."If external constraints prevent us from spending to have safe roads and schools, then it really calls into question whether it makes sense to follow these rules," Salvini told reporters.

Bosnia's autonomous Serb-dominated regional parliament on Tuesday requested a rewrite of a 2004 report concluding that Bosnian Serb forces killed about 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. The vote was initiated by Serb Republic nationalist president Milorad Dodik, who wants to become the Serb representative in Bosnia's tripartite presidency in general elections in October. The EU office in Sarajevo condemned "the use of inflammatory ethno-political rhetoric and actions".

Sofia may be wearing out its welcome with Western democracies by playing both sides - seeking closer integration in Europe while cosying up to Moscow and Beijing, claiming to work towards hitting EU targets while putting its own interests first.

Malta has agreed to let 141 people that were rescued by the Aquarius vessel disembark at its port, the Maltese government said in a statement on Tuesday, stressing that it had "no legal obligation to do so". It said that from there the migrants will head to France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Spain. Italy and Spain previously refused Aquarius disembarkation, as did Malta and Italy in June.

A motorway bridge collapse in the Italian city of Genoa killed at least 22 people on Tuesday, according to Italy's deputy infrastructure minister Edoardo Rixi, who added that the death toll was "likely to rise". European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker issued a statement of sympathy and condolences, while French president Emmanuel Macron said France was "ready to offer all necessary support".

Commission says it is not convinced by Warsaw's defence of a new law on Poland's Supreme Court, which forces the early retirement of some 27 judges.

The European Commission has said on Tuesday that it will provide €500,000 in additional aid to the earthquake-struck Indonesian island Lombok. "This additional contribution will provide crucial support to those in need and ensure that the most vulnerable among the affected people have enough means to cope through this difficult time", said humanitarian aid commissioner Christos Stylianides. Last week, the commission pledged an initial €150,000 in emergency assistance.

The European Commission is discussing where to disembark 141 people onboard the Aquarius vessel with "a number of member states that have approached us regarding this incident", a spokeswoman said Tuesday. However, she refused to say which or how many member states. "We hope that a swift solution can be found as soon as possible so that the people on board the Aquarius can be safely disembarked," she added.

Armed police in London have arrested a man after a car crashed into security barriers outside the UK parliament early on Tuesday. Several pedestrians were reported to be injured, although none seriously. Parliament is currently in the summer recess. Police said it was too early to determine if the incident was terrorism-related, although one witness told The Guardian the vehicle had no front numberplate.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) had planned to update its guidelines on the readability of leaflets accompanying medicines. "However, the completion of the work is currently impacted by the forthcoming move of the EMA from London to Amsterdam and the need for EMA to focus on core business priorities for the time being," EU health commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said in a written statement to the European Parliament on Monday.

Less than a month before the Swedish general election, a wave of possibly co-ordinated attacks on Monday evening saw dozens of cars set alight and stones thrown at police by gangs of masked youths. In Gothenburg alone over 80 vehicles were destroyed or badly damaged, police said. Similar incidents were reported in Malmo, Helsingborg and Trollhattan. A election stall in Linkoping of the far-right Sweden Democrats was also set alight.

Both Spain and Italy appear unwilling to accept a new group of 141 migrants rescued by the Aquarius boat on Friday. "Spain is not the safest port", sources close to Spain's prime minster were reported saying by El Pais. "It can go where it wants, (but) not to Italy!", Italy's deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, tweeted. Spain offered the ship safe port in June, when Italy and Malta denied entry.

The world's largest seed and agrochemical company, German multinational Bayer's stock slumped more than 10 percent in trading on Monday, three days after a San Francisco jury ruled the company's subsidiary Monsanto liable for a terminally-ill man's cancer and awarded him €254m in damages. Monsanto, the maker of the glyphosate weedkiller Roundup, was acquired by Bayer in June for €55bn.

German chancellor Angela Merkel will host a meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Berlin this weekend, spokesman Steffen Seibert announced on Monday. The surprise meeting is meant to focus on Syria, violence in eastern Ukraine and the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project. It comes at a time when relations with the US are strained by trade tariffs, hitting both Russian, Turkish and German aluminium and steel exports.

The Hungarian government is planning to remove gender study courses from the curriculum of universities from 2019. "Nobody wants to hire gender graduates, so you do not need to train them," deputy prime minister Zsolt Semyen was qouted saying by the Atv.hu news portal on Monday. Universities were offered 24 hours to comment on the draft law, which was criticised by academics as a "dangerous precedent" for state interference.

The relatively-new Spitzenkandidat process means the commission will be led by a political candidate, and thus it instantly becomes more political. But is that the desired effect?

The US oil and gas giant hosted Cypriot MEPs, Cyprus' highest EU diplomat and EU commissioner Christos Stylianides at a dinner in a private club in Brussels.