Belgium’s first-ever National Drug Commissioner, Ine Van Wymersch, tells Euronews that the European Union needs to crack down on encrypted messaging platforms that allow drug traffickers to coordinate their criminal operations.
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Belgian drug chief calls on EU to pressure encrypted apps to work with law enforcement
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‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’: Blending documentary and fiction to portray the war in Gaza
The art of cinema allows us to confront the most horrific tragedies of our world, both past and present.
Over the last decades, many films have chronicled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But when it comes to Israel’s current war on the Palestinian people of Gaza, fiction has yet to catch…
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Netflix wins battle for Warner Bros as HBO joins streaming giant’s empire
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Netflix announced the definitive purchase Warner Bros Discovery on Friday, including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO, after a…
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Trump administration warns Europe of 'civilisational decline' in new national security strategy
Complaining of “unrealistic expectations” about the prospect of defeating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US government vows to “cultivate resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations” to stop its “civilisational” decline.
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Tackling waste: European innovation is reshaping the future of the plastic circular economy
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It looks like a manufacturing plant but it’s actually a huge research facility. Inside Borealis’s Innovation Hall in Linz, Austria, raw materials…
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2026’s Colour of the Year is revealed – and not everyone’s happy about ‘Cloud Dancer’
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We’ve had 2025’s Spotify Wrapped, Wikipedia’s most searched pages of the year, the most googled terms and several words of the year have been…
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German military service reform triggers major youth protests – POLITICO
Protests are being held in around 90 towns and cities across Germany. According to Berlin police, around 800 people gathered to protest the reform in the morning, with several thousand expected in Germany’s capital by the end of the day.
The initiative behind the protest, Schulstreik…
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Trump is ‘frustrated’ with irrational Putin, says Farage – POLITICO
In response to a question from POLITICO, Farage said Ukraine had been offered a bad deal under which it would be forced to accept limits to the size of its military that would usually apply only to a country that had signed an “unconditional surrender.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
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How decades of deforestation turned Asia’s floods into one of the deadliest weather events of 2025
Overlapping tropical storms and “intensified” monsoon systems have unleashed widespread devastation across Asia, with rescue teams still racing to reach isolated survivors.
Days of record-breaking rainfall and storm surges triggered catastrophic flooding and landslides in Sri Lanka,…
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Milan bans self-check-in key boxes for short term rentals starting in 2026
Milan has officially joined the list of Italian cities banning key boxes used for short-term rentals.
Starting in January 2026, the use of these boxes will no longer be permitted following a city council resolution that specifically targets their installation.
The ban applies to key boxes…
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