FRANCE BATTLES BIGGEST WILDFIRE IN 76 YEARS

Thu 07 August 2025: French Prime Minister François Bayrou called the raging wildfire in southern France’s Aude region a “catastrophe on an unprecedented scale,” tying it directly to climate change and prolonged drought. Visiting the devastated area, where flames have consumed a region larger than Paris, Bayrou highlighted the crisis’s severity. Since Tuesday, the inferno […]

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PUTIN RECEIVES US SPECIAL ENVOY WITKOFF IN MOSCOW FOR UKRAINE WAR TALKS

Wed 06 August 2025: Russian President Vladimir Putin received US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin on Wednesday, just two days before hitting a deadline for Moscow to reach a ceasefire in Ukraine or face new sanctions The meeting between Putin and Witkoff was announced by the Kremlin in a statement, […]

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ANTI-NARCOTIC AGENCY WARNS NO PART OF FRANCE IS FREE OF DRUGS

Wed 06 August 2025: France has become a country with no area free of drugs, according to a report by the country’s anti-narcotics office OFAST, raising concerns about the scale of cocaine trafficking and its grip on French society. Described as a “white tsunami” by French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, the report warns of an […]

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SUSPECTS IN 2024 MOSCOW CONCERT HALL ATTACK THAT KILLED 149 FACE TRIAL

Tue 05 August 2025: Russian President Vladimir Putin claims, without providing evidence, that Ukraine was involved in the attack, an allegation Kyiv vehemently denies. The trial has begun for 19 defendants accused of involvement in the 2024 shooting attack in a Moscow concert hall that killed 149 people, and wounded over 600, in one of […]

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RUSSIA’S MEDVEDEV WARNS OF ‘FURTHER STEPS’ AFTER MOSCOW WITHDRAWS FROM MISSILE MORATORIUM

Tue 05 August 2025: Russian former President Dmitry Medvedev blamed NATO countries Monday for Moscow’s withdrawal from a moratorium on short- and medium-range nuclear missiles. “The Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement on the withdrawal of the moratorium on the deployment of medium- and short-range missiles is the result of NATO countries’ anti-Russian policy. “This is a […]

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MORE THAN 10,000 EUROPEAN HOTELS SEEKING DAMAGES FROM BOOKING.COM

Tue 05 August 2025: More than 10,000 European hotels are joining collective legal action against Amsterdam-based Booking.com to seek compensation for losses caused by the online travel agency’s use of so-called “best price” clauses. The clauses ban the hotels from offering rooms on their own websites at a lower rate and are seen by them […]

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