Category: Europe
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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.
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Ukrainian investigators recovered an off-the-shelf AI computer from the wreckage of a Russian strike drone in Zaporizhzhia. Analysts say the July attack, which killed three people, is the first documented case in this war of civilians killed by a weapon that selected its own aim point.
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Swedish data from 376,000 people links colorectal screening to a 43 per cent lower risk of dying from the disease. Why this cancer suits screening unusually well, what a relative reduction actually means, and the costs on the other side.
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A Yorkshire church group has apologised after grave ornaments, including a teddy bear left for 23 years, were removed and binned without warning. The churchyard rules behind it, why the objection is about notice rather than the rule, and what grief research says.
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European surveillance reports 81 locally acquired West Nile cases across six countries this season. Why “locally acquired” is the key phrase, why the counts understate infections, and what the climate link does and does not establish.