Category: 3. Europe

At least 12 homes were either destroyed or damaged when a wildfire swept through a coastal area north of Sydney, local authorities said.

The blaze broke out in the town of Koolewong, New South Wales. Scores of wildfires are burning across the state, fuelled by soaring temperatures.

An unnamed…

A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog has found.

The so-called new safe confinement was…

Merz echoed the sentiment in German media. “Belgium’s particular concern about the question of how to make use of frozen Russian assets is undeniable and must be addressed in any conceivable solution in such a way that all European states bear the same risk,” he said.

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Landau said the fine was only the “tip of the iceberg” and that the EU had continuously undermined its credibility with the U.S. with its focus on policies that he described in a separate post on Saturday as adverse to U.S. interests and a form of “civilizational suicide” — echoing…

World-renowned Canadian-American architect and designer Frank Gehry has died at the age of 96 after a short respiratory illness. He passed away on Friday at his home in Santa Monica, California, said Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP.

Gehry designed some of the most…

When asked about Vance’s remarks, the Commission’s Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty Henna Virkkunen told reporters: “The DSA is having not to do with censorship, this decision is about the transparency of X.” 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a Friday post on the…

The 33-page document argued that European countries face “civilizational erasure” in part due to their acceptance of migrants. It accused some European governments of unfairly censoring certain political parties — far right ones, for the most part. It also suggested Europeans were an…