All news on the topic: Europe
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Europe’s Iron Dome-style air defence plan faces backlash over Gaza war
Europe’s plans to construct a missile and drone shield similar to the Iron Dome face potential setbacks due to increasing anti-Israeli sentiment over the conflict in Gaza.
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Trump cuts Eastern Europe defenсe programs, helping Putin destroy Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has wasted no time in warning that he’d attack foreign troops stationed in Ukraine as part of a peace deal he has no intention of signing, while Donald Trump continues to undermine Europe’s defences.
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Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as BYD surges ahead with record growth
Tesla sales slumped 40% across Europe in July compared with a year earlier as Elon Musk’s electric car company faces increasingly tough competition from its Chinese rival BYD.
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Albania to speed up EU accession process with help of ChatGPT
Besides generating weird AI baby versions of European leaders, Albania’s politicians themselves could soon be made of pixels and code.
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Centrica to buy Europe’s biggest LNG import terminal in £1.5bn deal with US partner
Deal for Europe’s biggest facility for LNG imports comes as overall UK gas demand fell sharply last year
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The deadly price of truth: international team investigates journalist killings in Paraguay’s borderlands
Forbidden Stories with its partners at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and five media outlets in Latin America and Europe will be publishing investigations on Paraguay. Three of the stories seek to continue the leads that murdered Paraguayan journalists were following.
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‘Ndrangheta and Albanian gangs: mafia trafficked cocaine from South America to the heart of Europe
Authorities in Italy, Spain, and Albania have arrested 28 suspected members of a drug trafficking network linked to the ’Ndrangheta, Europol announced on Tuesday.
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Towering ‘tsunami roll cloud’ rapidly advances over the beach in a terrifying manner
Europe is in the grips of a deadly heatwave as temperatures continue to soar. Parts of Spain and Portugal recorded temperatures of 46°C.
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Antwerp and Rotterdam at the center of massive drug trade: over 1,800 tons of narcotics seized in 5 years
More than 1,800 tonnes of drugs have been seized as organized crime penetrates major EU seaports, with Antwerp and Rotterdam at the center, raising increasing concerns about corruption among port staff, customs officials, and law enforcement.
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Britain may have had another Philby: MI5 spent 20 years hunting for a ’mole’ in MI6
Britain’s spy chiefs had to initiate one of the most sensitive and risky investigations since the Cold War due to concerns that a senior officer at the foreign intelligence service MI6 was a double agent for Russia.
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In the event of a war with Europe, Russia could cause a drop in global GDP of $1.5 trillion — Bloomberg
Bloomberg Economics reports that a full-scale Russian war against Europe could decrease global GDP by $1.5 trillion.
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Iran threatens to reveal Israel’s nuclear secrets — a response to Europe’s threat of new sanctions
Tehran’s threat arises as European powers push for a vote that could result in the reimposition of UN sanctions.
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Over 50 organizations urge EU to take real action against corruption — public trust at stake
Civil society groups throughout Europe are calling on the EU to uphold robust anti-corruption measures as the final negotiations on the directive begin.
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Etna erupts: powerful ash and gas flow collapses crater and forces tourists to flee
Europe’s biggest active volcano has erupted, spewing hot ash several kilometres into the air.
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Suspect in €520 million Moby Dick fraud surrenders in Milan after six months on the run
Prosecutors state that a key player in a Europe-wide VAT fraud scheme has turned themselves in after months on the run.
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200 kg of meth and ties to Mexico: transnational drug network uncovered in Europe
European authorities dismantle a meth network linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and gangs in Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.
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Bosnian passports for the mafia: how Kavac and Skaljari criminals vanished off the radar
Dozens of infamous Balkan crime figures have acquired Bosnian passports using stolen identities and insider access. Innocent citizens bear the cost, as their names end up triggering red alerts at the border.
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"KGB 2.0": Russian SSD unit waging a secret war against the West
Dr. Lance Hunter explained that this isn’t simply another Russian intelligence unit, but rather ’KGB 2.0’.
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Salvage of the yacht "Bayesian", on which Mike Lynch died, halted after diver’s death
Work to raise the Bayesian is put on hold as investigators seek to establish the cause of the 39-year-old Dutchman’s death
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EU lawmakers issued anti-spy pouches ahead of Hungary visit amid growing surveillance concerns
Budapest has been under EU scrutiny for its use of spyware against the opposition and civil society in recent years.
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Swedish teen arrested in Sydney for plotting overseas contract killings
A teenage boy may face a life sentence in prison after allegedly attempting to hire contract killers as part of a cross-border gang war involving a ‘transnational crime syndicate’.
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First orbital rocket launched from mainland Europe crashes after launch
Uncrewed Spectrum test rocket’s failure seconds after blast-off said to have produced extensive data nonetheless
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Belgium investigates 41 cases of drink spiking and sexual assault in Kortrijk bars
Prosecutors allege suspects spiked victims’ drinks with drugs at venues in Kortrijk between 2021 and 2024
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France and the UK to send military teams to assist Ukrainian forces
British and French military teams will be deployed to Ukraine in ‘coming days’, Emmanuel Macron has confirmed.
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Search efforts continue for four missing US soldiers in Lithuania after their vehicle is found submerged
US army says search efforts are ongoing after Nato secretary general tells reporters servicemembers were ‘killed’
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