Sat 02 May 2026: From heatwaves to wildfires and shrinking ice cover, Europe is facing a ‘severe’ impact from climate change, UN body says. Nearly all of Europe experienced above-average annual temperatures in 2025, a year that included record-high marine temperatures and wildfires from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The United […]
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Fri 01 May 2026: Antibiotics are one of the greatest breakthroughs in medical history. They turned once-deadly infections into treatable illnesses and made modern healthcare possible. But bacteria are changing, and some of the drugs we have depended on for decades are becoming less effective. Around the world, infections are becoming harder to treat. This […]
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Fri 01 May 2026: In the face of worsening geopolitical tensions, Gulf nations are resuming cooperative projects aimed to mitigate risks Gulf leaders gathered in Riyadh this week for their first in-person meeting since the outbreak of the US–Israel war with Iran. Alongside security concerns, they also discussed expediting longstanding joint projects. Under the umbrella of the Gulf Cooperation […]
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Fri 01 May 2026: Researchers from Shanghai Advanced Research Institute move their conversion process beyond laboratory aiming for large-scale production Chinese scientists are advancing a new technology that could transform greenhouse gases into aviation fuel, offering a potential lifeline to an airline industry strained by surging energy costs, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday. […]
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Thu 30 April 2026: The legendary American bank robber Willie Sutton spent 40 years robbing banks because, as he claimed in his autobiography, he loved doing it. And when asked why he chose banks of all places to rob, he allegedly replied “Because that’s where the money is.” Back in 2017, I wrote a book predicting it wasn’t just lovable […]
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Thu 30 April 2026: Brenton Tarrant shot dead 51 Muslim worshippers, including children, at two Christchurch mosques in 2019. Australian white supremacist killer Brenton Tarrant has lost an appeal to overturn his conviction and sentence for shooting dead 51 people at two New Zealand mosques in 2019, court documents show. New Zealand’s Court of Appeal denied Tarrant’s appeal on […]
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Thu 30 April 2026: Reporters Without Borders warns that ‘journalism is increasingly criminalised worldwide’. Freedom of the press around the world has fallen to its lowest level in a quarter of a century, according to the leading Paris-based press freedom NGO, Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), or Reporters Without Borders. Every year, RSF publishes a World […]
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Thu 30 April 2026: Police-recorded sexual violence up 94% since 2014, homicides down 11% Sexual violence and rape offences recorded by police across the EU have risen sharply over the past decade, according to data published Wednesday by the EU’s statistics office, Eurostat. In 2024, police in the EU recorded 256,302 sexual violence offences, including […]
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Wed 29 April 2026: An estimated 17,000 children in Belgium are growing up with one or both parents in prison, but they remain “invisible” due to a lack of registration, the Belga News Agency reported Tuesday. The figure includes about 9,000 children in Flanders, the self-governing Dutch-speaking region in the north. The lack of comprehensive […]
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Wed 29 April 2026: Number of suicides climbed to 21 in 2024, and 22 in 2025, highest figure in 15 years, according to local media report citing data Military suicides are rising in Israel amid a reduction in mental health support for soldiers, according to a report by the Israeli daily Haaretz on Wednesday. At […]
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