Category: Europe
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Polish police logged 180 hate-crime reports involving Ukrainians in six months, up more than 30 per cent. ACLED counts one physical attack in 2024 and thirteen so far this year. The trigger, repeatedly, is hearing Ukrainian spoken.
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Harald V died on Friday at 89. His son became king at that moment, takes the oath before parliament tomorrow, and will not be crowned — Norway abolished the coronation in 1908. The state funeral is on 9 September.
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An Al Jazeera investigation found 17 companies linked to Israeli settlements hold 125 UK public-sector contracts worth £2.129bn. The money is not going to settlements. The legal question is narrower, and harder.
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Icelanders voted 52.8 per cent to 47.2 per cent against reopening EU membership talks, on a turnout of 82.5 per cent. The government framed it as a security question. Voters answered a fishing question.
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The US ambassador to Belgium posted an AI-generated image mocking the health minister over alcohol warning labels. Brussels summoned him — for the second time this year. The joke got the coverage; the question of what a summons is actually for did not.
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Kyiv agreed to an American request to hold off striking Moscow while the CIA director was in the city. The drones came back hours after his plane left — which tells you who the courtesy was for.
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The CIA director went to Moscow unannounced and proposed a three-way meeting with Putin and Zelensky. Why that errand goes to a spy chief rather than a diplomat, and why the summit keeps not happening.
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A Russian drone hit an ammunition store at Myla, west of Kyiv, and the detonation killed at least 37 people. Zelensky’s anger was aimed at whoever put the explosives next to a care home — the second such incident in two months.
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Why an island of 57,000 people has become a trans-Atlantic crisis: the minerals, the missile route, the shipping lanes, and the awkward fact that Greenland already has the legal right to decide its own future.
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2 August 2026 sat in compliance calendars for two years as the day the EU AI Act would properly bite. A late amendment split the date in two: transparency rules arrived on schedule, the high-risk regime slipped over a year.