Category: Europe
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Seven to ten million Coptic Christians live in Egypt — the largest Christian community in the Middle East and one of the oldest anywhere. Where they come from, what makes them theologically distinct, and why coverage in English skips them.
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Ukraine sent drones against Moscow as Russia bombarded Kyiv, after strikes on a Baltic export terminal and a space-launch plant in Samara. Six negotiating venues have produced no result.
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A Spanish NATO jet shot down a drone over Romania overnight — the second spillover into alliance territory in two days. What Article 5 actually requires, and why the ambiguity is the danger.
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Six hundred drones hit the Moscow region overnight while Russian missiles and 106 drones struck Kyiv, Kremenchuk and Kryvyi Rih, burning a city book market for the second time in the war.
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Much of Europe and Latin America has the day off today for the Feast of the Assumption. What the feast marks, why the Orthodox call it the Dormition, and why a religious observance is a statutory holiday even in secular France.
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Ukraine struck NOVATEK facilities at the Baltic export hub of Ust-Luga on 14 August, the latest in a campaign against the refineries and terminals that finance Russia’s war. Why export chokepoints are the chosen target.
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Ukrainian intelligence says Russia fired 198 ballistic and hypersonic missiles in July and is rebuilding stockpiles for a winter campaign against the grid. Kyiv says it has run out of interceptors.
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Millions were told Earth would lose gravity for seven seconds during the 12 August eclipse, killing 40 million people. It didn’t. How the “Project Anchor” hoax was built, and the three questions that would have caught it.
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At his general audience on 12 August, Pope Leo XIV told Catholics that watching Mass online cannot replace being there — while urging communities to make it possible for those who work Sundays to attend.
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Deep brain stimulation eases Parkinson’s symptoms, but not equally for everyone and nobody could fully explain why. Researchers now report that the benefit tracks a specific brain network communicating at 20 to 35 hertz.