Category: 3. Europe

Israel has backtracked on its initial account of how 15 Palestinian first responders were killed near Rafah on March 23, after a video retrieved from one of the deceased workers’ phones appeared to contradict its version of events.

An Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) official, speaking…

US President Donald Trump’s 10% ‘baseline’ tariffs kicked in on Saturday, triggering a global market selloff.

European equity markets are experiencing their worst session since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the DAX, the CAC 40, and the FTSE 100 all plummeting on Monday.

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The Dutch government’s decision comes after the fragile truce between Israel and militant group Hamas ended on March 18. In the past 24 hours, Israeli forces killed at least 57 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

In total, the Israeli military has killed more than 50,000…

In recent weeks, both Meta and Google executives said that EU regulation has made it difficult to launch their AI tools on the European market. Last year, TikTok and X faced the same problem, due to requirements under the Digital Services Act (DSA), AI Act and General Data…

Clarifying, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said separately that the zero-for-zero deal could cover cars and all other industrial goods, such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, rubber and plastic machinery.

Von der Leyen also did not rule out retaliation: “We are also prepared to…

Three migrants have been cleared on appeal of setting fire to the overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos during the Covid pandemic.

The juvenile court of Mytilene found the defendants not guilty, ruling that their involvement in the blaze in September 2020 had not been…

Mention the Aral Sea or search for it online, and apocalyptic scenes appear. A lake once so vast it is still called a sea—teeming with life and supporting dozens of marine species and picturesque fishing villages—is receding and close to disappearing.

The concentration of salt…

Around 10,793 victims of human trafficking were registered in the EU in 2023, an increase of 6.9% compared with the previous year, according to the latest Eurostat figures. 

So far, this is the highest recorded value between 2008 and 2023. 

In 2023, there were 24 registered victims…

Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek has introduced a new way to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to deliver better and faster results to general queries than its competitors. 

DeepSeek sparked a frenzy in January when it came onto the scene with R1, an…