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Irish police probe potential terror link in army chaplain stabbing

Sat, 08/17/2024 - 06:23
Detectives in Ireland on Friday (16 August) probed a possible terrorism link after a teenager allegedly stabbed an army chaplain outside a barracks in the western city of Galway.
Categories: European Union

Hamas rejects ‘new’ Gaza truce conditions as Biden says deal closer than ever

Sat, 08/17/2024 - 06:11
Hamas said Friday (16 August) the Palestinian group rejected "new conditions" in a Gaza ceasefire plan the United States presented after two days of talks with Israeli negotiators in Qatar.
Categories: European Union

Hamas rejects ‘new’ Gaza truce conditions as Biden says deal closer than ever

Sat, 08/17/2024 - 06:11
Hamas said Friday (16 August) the Palestinian group rejected "new conditions" in a Gaza ceasefire plan the United States presented after two days of talks with Israeli negotiators in Qatar.
Categories: European Union

German government reaches new deal on remaining 2025 budget hurdles

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 18:03
The heads of Germany's coalition government clinched a new agreement on the country's fiscal budget for 2025, on Friday (16 August), reaching a compromise solution to the remaining sticking points that had emerged last month.
Categories: European Union

EU public health body lifts mpox risk alert level after new strain found in Sweden

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 17:52
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on Friday (16 Aug) raised its risk level for mpox, after global health officials confirmed one case of infection in Sweden, the first outside Africa.
Categories: European Union

EU Commission seeks details from Meta on data access and election monitoring

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 15:45
The European Commission sent a request for information to Meta under the Digital Services Act (DSA) on Friday (16 August), seeking details on compliance with data access and election monitoring requirements.
Categories: European Union

EU universities outnumber China, US in overall 2024 Shanghai ranking, pale in top 50

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 15:44
Eight EU universities made it into the top 50 of the Shanghai 2024 University Ranking, with Paris-Saclay achieving the highest score among EU universities.
Categories: European Union

Remembering the forgotten, Roma and Sinti victims of Nazi holocaust

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 14:54
On 2 August we commemorated the Roma and Sinti victims and survivors of Nazi persecution, a day for Europe and the world to reflect on, an overlooked and underrepresented atrocity - a chapter erased or omitted from too many world records, history books, and lessons writes Kathrin Meyer.
Categories: European Union

The UN Cybercrime convention is a victory for digital authoritarianism

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 10:39
The adopted text of the UN Cybercrime Convention is a win for digital authoritarianism, which European and like-minded countries must fight, writes Tobias B. Bacherle.
Categories: European Union

The UN Cybercrime convention is a victory for digital authoritarianism

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 10:39
The adopted text of the UN Cybercrime Convention is a win for digital authoritarianism, which European and like-minded countries must fight, writes Tobias B. Bacherle.
Categories: European Union

Russia sentences US-Russian citizen to 12 years in jail for donating $50 to Ukraine

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 07:30
Dual Russian-American citizen Ksenia Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday (15 August) after a Russian court found her guilty of treason for donating money to a charity supporting Ukraine.
Categories: European Union

Russia sentences US-Russian citizen to 12 years in jail for donating $50 to Ukraine

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 07:30
Dual Russian-American citizen Ksenia Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday (15 August) after a Russian court found her guilty of treason for donating money to a charity supporting Ukraine.
Categories: European Union

Lukashenko urges Russia and Ukraine to end war as Kursk incursion continues

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 07:15
Russia and Ukraine should negotiate an end to their conflict to avoid the war spilling over into Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko, a key ally of Vladimir Putin, said in an interview with Russian state television.
Categories: European Union

Lukashenko urges Russia and Ukraine to end war as Kursk incursion continues

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 07:15
Russia and Ukraine should negotiate an end to their conflict to avoid the war spilling over into Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko, a key ally of Vladimir Putin, said in an interview with Russian state television.
Categories: European Union

Gaza ceasefire negotiations extend to another day as death toll exceeds 40,000

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 07:02
Negotiators were to meet in the Qatari capital Doha again on Friday (16 August) in an effort to hammer out a Gaza ceasefire agreement as Israel continued to slam targets in the Palestinian enclave.
Categories: European Union

Ukraine racks up gains with Russia incursion, faces challenge holding territory

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 06:40
Ukraine has chalked up a string of victories more than a week since blindsiding Russia with a lightning cross-border assault, but the risks are piling up as its troops make plans to hold territory and Russia recovers its footing.
Categories: European Union

Brazil, Colombia urge new Venezuela vote, as opposition cries foul

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 06:26
The presidents of Brazil and Colombia called Thursday (15 August) for fresh elections in Venezuela -- a proposal quickly rejected by the opposition, who slammed the strongman for blocking a "political transition."
Categories: European Union

Brazil, Colombia urge new Venezuela vote, as opposition cries foul

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 06:26
The presidents of Brazil and Colombia called Thursday (15 August) for fresh elections in Venezuela -- a proposal quickly rejected by the opposition, who slammed the strongman for blocking a "political transition."
Categories: European Union

WHO declare Mpox outbreak as threat of international concern

Thu, 08/15/2024 - 10:40
The emergency committee of World Health Organisation (WHO) convened in Geneva yesterday (15 August) agreed that the latest outbreak of Mpox did constitute a public health emergency of international concern PHEIC).
Categories: European Union

Germany investigates possible sabotage of water supply at military base

Thu, 08/15/2024 - 07:28
A German military base next to Cologne airport was temporarily sealed off on Wednesday (14 August) and soldiers there were told not to drink tap water as authorities investigated possible sabotage, the military's Territorial Command said.
Categories: European Union

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