In Europe, anger mounts over Gaza famine
(CN) — Faced with awful images and reports of famine in the Gaza Strip, European leaders are finally expressing anger and disgust over Israel’s actions as the number of Palestinians dying from...
View ArticleWikipedia seeks to shield contributors from UK law targeting online anonymity
(CN) — Wikipedia sued the British government on Tuesday, arguing a law designed to protect people from online trolls and anonymous attacks will end up hurting the free digital encyclopedia’s...
View ArticleAmerican-style culture war erupts over German high court nominee
(CN) — Something unusual is happening in Germany: A nominee for the country’s highest court, the Federal Constitutional Court, is at the center of a major political row reminiscent of the toxic...
View ArticleExhumation begins on children’s mass grave at Irish facility run by nuns
(CN) — Excavation began on Monday to exhume the remains of hundreds of babies and children believed to have been buried inside a sewage tank at the site of a former church-run institution for unwed...
View ArticleRubio sanctions UN special rapporteur critical of Israel, US
(CN) — The Trump administration has slapped sanctions on Francesca Albanese, a United Nations special rapporteur investigating and denouncing Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. U.S. Secretary of...
View ArticleEurope sweats through another summer of heat waves, wildfires and heat deaths
(CN) — Europe is enduring another summer of sweltering and dangerous heat, climate scientists said on Wednesday. Two studies released Wednesday show last month was western Europe’s hottest June on...
View ArticleSpanish corruption scandal erupts, threatening PM Sánchez
(CN) — It’s going to be a long, hot summer of political turmoil for Socialist Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, one of Europe’s last remaining progressive leaders who finds himself on the ropes as...
View ArticleEU farm subsidy scandal rocks Greece
(CN) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the conservative Harvard-educated scion of a Greek political dynasty, on Monday sought to staunch the damage caused by a wide-ranging scandal over...
View ArticleRights court slams Hungary for mass deportations
(CN) — Europe’s human rights court on Tuesday condemned Hungary’s far-right and anti-immigrant government for carrying out illegal deportations, including mass expulsions, of asylum-seekers since...
View Article‘Europe’s Silicon Valley’: Britain eyes Oxford-Cambridge as a future tech...
OXFORD, England (CN) — The distance between the green lawns and quiet courtyards of Oxford University to those of Cambridge University is roughly 60 miles. It’s in this arc between two of the world’s...
View ArticlePolish pharmacies can revive ads after EU high court tosses ban
(CN) — The European Union’s high court on Thursday struck down a law Poland passed in 2012 banning advertising by pharmacies as part of an effort to rein in the overconsumption of medicine. The...
View ArticleTrump demands Iran surrender, says leader safe ‘for now’ as attacks intensify
(CN) — The world was on edge Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump issued ominous statements telling Tehran’s residents to “immediately evacuate” and that the United States knew where Iran’s...
View ArticleIsrael-Iran conflict rages as energy infrastructure targeted
(CN) — With the death toll rising and strikes widening to include energy infrastructure and Iran’s state broadcaster, the conflict between Israel and Iran looked set to intensify in the coming days as...
View ArticleWorld on edge after Israel attacks Iran; Trump warns Tehran of ‘more to come’
(CN) — Israel launched a massive attack against Iran and its nuclear program on Friday, plunging the Middle East into an even deeper crisis and bringing the region to the brink of a full-scale war. On...
View ArticleEU high court orders review of Airbus Galileo satellite contract
(CN) — The European Union’s high court on Thursday ordered a review into charges that Airbus hired a chief rival’s top executive and obtained trade secrets that helped the company win a massive...
View ArticleEU court upholds ban on deep-sea fishing in Atlantic
(CN) — In a blow to Europe’s fishing industry, a European Union court on Wednesday upheld a ban on deep-sea fishing in parts of the Atlantic Ocean rich with marine life, especially corals, sponges and...
View ArticleIsrael seizes Gaza-bound aid boat with activist Greta Thunberg aboard
PALERMO, Sicily (CN) — In an action deemed illegal, Israeli special forces early Monday detained a British-flagged yacht carrying 12 activists, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and a...
View ArticleRubio sanctions ICC judges for ‘transgressions’ against US, Israel
(CN) — The Trump administration imposed sanctions late Thursday on four judges at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, accusing them of “transgressions” by approving cases against the United...
View ArticleGerman leader meets Trump as Russia-Ukraine war escalates
(CN) — Amid collapsing peace talks over the Ukraine war, new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to put more pressure on Russia during his first visit to the...
View ArticlePeace talks stall after Ukraine hits Russian nuclear bombers
(CN) — A new round of peace talks in Istanbul on Monday between Ukraine and Russia yielded little progress, coming a day after Ukraine carried out brazen drone attacks that damaged several Russian...
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