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‘Hotel on rails’ Midnight Trains announce end of project before it actually started operations (tripbytrip.org)
Southern Germany hit by catastrophic flooding (www.dw.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/16572873...
Faiza Shaheen dropped by Labour for liking pro-BDS, Corbyn and Green Party posts (www.middleeasteye.net)
The UK’s Labour Party deselected Faiza Shaheen as a candidate for the marginal London seat of Chingford and Woodford Green over a series of social media posts which expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), praised former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and backed candidates running for the Green...
Hypersonic paranoia in Russia: As treason cases at the highest level of Russian science pile up, is Kremlin-sanctioned spy mania out of control? (novayagazeta.eu)
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France bans Israel companies from annual Eurosatory arms fair (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
France has banned Israeli companies from participating in this year’s annual Eurosatory arms and defence industry exhibition in Villepinte near Paris next month, the event’s organisers and the French Defence Ministry said on Friday, Reuters reports....
European elections: 'Some populist radical and far-right parties in Europe seem to be close friends of authoritarians', study says (politicalcapital.hu)
Here is the study in English (pdf). There is a Hungarian version on website....
Spain blocks Facebook and Instagram from deploying election features (www.engadget.com)
US Treasury says US and EU must deliver a "message to China" that its firms can choose between doing business with US and EU economies or equipping Russia with dual-use goods (www.reuters.com)
Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on Friday that Washington and the European Union must deliver a message to China that its firms face a choice between doing business with U.S. and EU economies or equipping Russia with dual-use goods....
Commission designates Temu as Very Large Online Platform under the Digital Services Act (ec.europa.eu)
Paris 2024: Police arrest man planning attack on Olympics stadium (www.bbc.com)
All Santander staff and '30 million' customers in Spain, Chile and Uruguay hacked (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16030383...
Ukraine can use German weapons against Russian border strikes, Berlin says (www.reuters.com)
Biden allows Ukraine to use US-supplied arms to strike inside Russia near Kharkiv area, say US officials (www.reuters.com)
Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware (www.theguardian.com)
At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....
Catalan: Spain approves amnesty law for nationalists (www.bbc.com)
Hungary breaks the diplomatic isolation of Belarus by seeking help for nuclear plant (www.euractiv.com)
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Pfizergate: Plaintiff asks for Sacking of Head of European Commission (www.euronews.com)
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Iceland volcano eruption: Travel advice and Blue Lagoon update (www.euronews.com)
Funding of political parties in the EU: Populist, far-right and far-left political parties receive a quarter of all the private money, while the donors remain widely unknown (www.ftm.eu)
The linked article provides further links to media report in several European languages....
Once ostracised, Italy's Meloni is now centre stage in Europe (www.reuters.com)
Europe seeks to emulate NASA’s revolutionary commercial cargo program (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/13237965...
Brexit border controls mean the world’s largest food awards will no longer be judged only in the U.K. (fortune.com)
The Seine and other European rivers contaminated by a 'forever chemical' that has gone under the radar (www.lemonde.fr)
Greens ‘will not back von der Leyen’ for re-election if she does deal with far right (www.theguardian.com)
Terry Reintke, the German Green MEP chair, said her group would “absolutely” not support von der Leyen – the incumbent centre-right commission president who is seeking a second term – if she made a deal with the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s group in the European parliament, the European Conservatives and...
