Category: Europe
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European football’s governing body is preparing a criminal complaint in Switzerland against Gianni Infantino over the abandoned plan to sell a stake in the World Cup. The evidence is being gathered through American courts.
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A liquidation begun in the British Virgin Islands in 2011 has worked its way to a family home in Hampstead. An English judge has rejected the argument that Islamic custom made the house the wife’s property.
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The Norwegian royal family arrives at a change of monarch after several punishing years: a criminal trial, a lung transplant, repeated hospital admissions and a running argument about where a family ends and an institution begins.
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There is no gap between one Norwegian monarch and the next. The throne passed the moment King Harald died. What follows is an oath, a name, a motto and a long period of mourning.
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King Harald V of Norway died at Rikshospitalet in Oslo early on Friday, aged 89, after eleven days in hospital with a blood disorder and an infection. His son became king at the moment of his death.
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The timetable changed again in July, days before the deadline it revised. A package sold as deregulation added a new prohibition on nudifier apps and consolidated supervision in Brussels. What the AI Act requires now, and what is still to come.
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A ship without insurance cannot sail — charterers won’t hire it, ports may refuse it, banks won’t fund the cargo. So when underwriters raise the war risk premium on a stretch of water, the shipping leaves. How the mechanism works, and why it is also a sanctions tool.
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A tornado of rare intensity destroyed the town hall, the school and around 300 of the 476 homes in Pomas, in the Aude. Dozens were injured and nobody was killed. Météo-France says the link between warming and tornadoes remains unclear — and explains why.
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On Ukraine’s Independence Day, the British prime minister said MBDA would release classified details of UK components in the SCALP cruise missile so Ukraine can assemble its own. Analysts were quick to point out what the step does not do.
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At a private audience marking 60 years of Portugal’s Military Ordinariate, the pope praised the soldier’s vocation and urged humility. It sits alongside his criticism of particular wars, including the US campaign against Iran — a tension that is older than this pontificate.