Fri 08 August 2025: Italy has approved a $15.5bn suspension bridge which will connect the mainland to the island of Sicily. Italy has given final approval to a long-delayed plan to construct the world’s longest suspension bridge, connecting the mainland to Sicily in a project worth €13.5bn ($15.5bn). Transport Minister Matteo Salvini hailed the Strait […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: A Kremlin official announced that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting in the near future. This follows Trump’s statement that he might soon meet both Putin and Ukrainian leaders to negotiate an end to the Ukraine conflict. Trump’s ultimatum for Russia to agree to […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: US electric vehicle (EV) giant Tesla saw a sharp sales decline in Europe’s two largest auto markets in July, according to data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) and Germany’s KBA. The new vehicle registrations plunged roughly 60% in the UK and over 55.1% in Germany, the data […]
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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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Wed 06 August 2025: Murder offences decrease by 14.9 percent as US public safety continues to improve after pandemic, according to FBI data. A new report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found that crime in the United States decreased in 2024, continuing a trend of improved public safety after a spike in murders during […]
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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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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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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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Tue 05 August 2025: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer‘s “one in, one out” deal to return English Channel migrants to France will come into force on Tuesday, with detentions set to begin by the end of the week. The deal, which has now been approved by the European Commission, means the UK will be able to send people […]
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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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