The felling of the “reparations loan” proposal, which would have recycled Russian assets that are mostly frozen in a clearing bank in Belgium, deprives Ukraine of guaranteed funding for the next two years.
It was Belgium’s legal…
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Ukraine war briefing: Russian forces attack Odesa twice in one day | Ukraine
Russian forces struck Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa late on Monday and damaged port facilities and a ship, the regional governor said, in the second attack on the region in less than 24 hours. Oleh Kiper said on Telegram that emergency…
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Fiji wrestles with plans to restore Indigenous rights over world-famous surf breaks | Fiji
In Fiji, babies know a connection to the sea from birth; their umbilical cords, or vicovico, are sometimes implanted in the reefs that frame the coastal Pacific nation, embedded among the coral. It’s an age-old practice among iTaukei, the…
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2025 likely to be UK’s hottest year ever recorded – Met Office
Mark PoyntingClimate researcher
EPAThis year is on course to be the UK’s hottest since records began, according to the Met Office, as climate change continues to drive temperatures to new heights.
With just over a week still to go, the average UK…
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Screams for help and panic as tourists rescued from fatal sinking
It was supposed to be just another Thursday in Laos, where Anthonin’s father was born.
Instead, the 30-year-old French citizen found himself among more than 140 people, mostly tourists, on a ferry that capsized in the Mekong River. All but three…
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Woman’s sex assault police report was published in tabloids
Josh Adam JonesJenny Evans said she was “terrified” when her report was published in the tabloids After making the hard decision to report a celebrity who she said sexually assaulted her, Jenny Evans discovered confidential details printed word…
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Consider This from NPR : NPR
A protest in February 2025 in Miami advocates for the reinstatement of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans in the…
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Car crashes into a bus stop in Germany and injures 3
GIESSEN, Germany (AP) — A driver crashed his car into a bus stop in Germany on Monday, injuring three people, one of them seriously, authorities said.
The driver, a 32-year-old man from Azerbaijan, was…
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