‘Heat apocalypse’: Europe in the grip of record-breaking heatwave
‘Heat apocalypse’: Europe in the grip of record-breaking heatwave
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Budapest Pride March To Go Ahead Despite Orban Ban
Thousands of people are set to defy a government ban by participating in the Pride march in Budapest, Hungary’s capital, on June 28. Right-wing populist Viktor Orban’s government and the Budapest police forbid the annual event under a new law that prohibits the exposure of young people to non-heterosexual lifestyles. But Budapest mayor Gergely Karacsony,…
NATO Breathes Sigh of Relief After Tiptoeing Around Trump at Summit – The Moscow Times
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The NATO leaders’ summit was tailor-made for Donald Trump, with a truncated schedule and a headline defense spending commitment secured in advance so the U.S. president could arrive having already secured something of a victory. While Trump’s remark that NATO’s collective defense clause was open to interpretation set teeth on edge…
Trump is Pushing Allies Away and Closer Into Each Other’s Arms
New trade deals. Joint sanctions against Israel. Military agreements. America’s closest allies are increasingly turning to each other to advance their interests, deepening their ties as the Trump administration challenges them with tariffs and other measures that are upending trade, diplomacy and defense. Concerned by shifting U.S. priorities under President Trump, some of America’s traditional…
Surge in new opioids, designer drugs threaten Europe, warns EU agency
A lab technician inspects filled vials of drug. — Reuters/File MADRID: Massive shipments of previously unknown recreational designer drugs and potent new opioids are threatening Europe, while traffic of cocaine and cannabis is worsening, according to the European Union Drugs Agency’s annual report published on Thursday. Seizures of synthetic cathinones – stimulants chemically akin to…
European Commission Gives Bulgaria Green Light To Adopt Euro From January 1
The European Commission has given Bulgaria the go-ahead to join the eurozone single currency region as of January 1, 2026, the country’s second major step in just one year on its path to full integration into the European Union. The commission, which met on June 4 to convey its decision on the issue, said Bulgaria…
Mount Etna erupts leaving tourists fleeing for their lives
Video shows people fleeing down mountainside as enormous ash plumes billows from Europe’s most active volcano
Another 9,000 Airbnbs across Spain to be taken down amid major holiday crackdown
THOUSANDS more Airbnbs are at risk in Spain amid a major crackdown on holiday rentals. Earlier this week, the Spanish government confirmed that more than 65,000 holiday rentals had to be removed from the Airbnb website. 2 Catalonia has revealed more than 9,000 Airbnbs that need to be taken downCredit: Alamy This is because they were…
In Italian Court, Another Verdict Looms In Saga Of Artyom Uss’s Great Escape
After Artyom Uss, a Russian businessman and son of a powerful Kremlin-connected governor, escaped from Italian house arrest two years ago, investigators spent months honing in on a motley Balkan crime gang that smuggled him home to Russia. The trail of evidence led from the suburbs of Milan to Zagreb, to Belgrade, and to the…
Starmer in Commons showdown on ‘win-win’ UK-EU deal slammed by Farage as ‘surrender’
But he was due to come under fierce criticism when he makes his statement to Parliament, shortly after midday, from the Conservatives and Mr Farage’s Reform UK, with particular anger over granting EU trawlers the right to fish in UK waters for 12 years.