Category: Europe
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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.
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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.