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Iran and Oman’s foreign ministers met in Tehran on Tuesday to discuss a phased approach to managing ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a criticial waterway that remains effectively closed since the war in Iran started in February. Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi and his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi “discussed a phased framework that could provide a practical and implementable basis for moving forward,” a joint statement said. The proposed framework includes a “joint temporary navigational corridor” through the strait and a mine-clearing project in the waterway. Further negotiations will establish a “permanent navigational corridor and future administration of…
“Kemi is popular. We are trying to promote the rest of the shadow Cabinet to make sure that popularity rubs off on the rest of the party,” said one Badenoch staffer, granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record. So far, it hasn’t worked. “Badenoch’s success has still failed to translate into any meaningful movement in the polls for her party,” said Scarlett Maguire, founder of independent polling firm Merlin Strategy. “The Conservatives’ mediocre polling numbers, still worse than when they lost the 2024 election, shows the extent to which they have lost trust in their…
MPs return to Parliament next week after the summer break, and Burnham’s government will need to decide how the ban — which is supposed to come into effect in spring — will work. Australia Australia was the first country in the world to introduce a social media ban for kids in December last year. Last month, the Australian government published its first wave of findings on the experiences of more than 4,000 children and families since the ban took effect. The numbers do not show a huge drop in kids accessing social media. The proportion of under-16s holding…
France and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement on Monday regarding a €6 billion investment to create three theme parks some 30 kilometres north-west of Paris, the French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made the announcement during a two-day visit to France, Macron’s office added, in what the French president dubbed an “unprecedented” project. “22,000 jobs created. Unseen since Disneyland Paris. A new global destination”, Macron wrote on X, thanking Saudi Arabia and Qiddiya, one of the many subsidiaries of the country’s Public Investment Fund, “for their confidence in our country, in our talents and in…
“[T]he GDPR has strangled small businesses and tech firms alike in a web of unnecessary regulation … Ten years after the Brexit referendum we should not still be following ridiculous EU privacy laws that hurt British businesses,” Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick said in a statement. The EU GDPR provides for a wider set of individual rights around personal data (including the “right to be forgotten”) than New Zealand’s Privacy Act does. However, Reform UK stressed in its press release that following the New Zealand model would preserve the U.K.’s EU data adequacy status, meaning personal data would still…
By Euronews Published on 25/08/2026 – 22:42 GMT+2 A routine check at the port of Bari turned into an investigation into a shipment of high-powered military equipment. Italian law enforcement officers stopped a 46-year-old French citizen, named as Regis Claude Albert Normand, after he disembarked from the Superfast II vessel after it arrived from Patras. In his van, which had French number plates, investigators found five transport containers designed to carry anti-tank weapons systems. Inside were launch tubes and missiles, including three Akeron missiles, which, according to a technical assessment and based on information gathered so far, are to be classified…
The mission began at 12:27 GMT. Twenty minutes later, Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency (ESA) was once again in the vacuum of space around the ISS, accompanied by her teammate, NASA astronaut Anil Menon, mounted on the base of the Canadarm2 robotic arm. The two astronauts had already spent more than six hours outside the ISS, just enough time to remove the faulty Space-to-Ground antenna, the one NASA engineers call SGANT. That day, Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon had struggled with stubborn bolts and connectors, and the two astronauts had not had time to replace SGANT with a…
This means that any station to be properly served from London needs expensive manned passport control, security checks, and a spare platform fenced off from others by a de facto international border. International and domestic passengers must be kept separate, too. These hurdles also make it commercially unviable to directly serve other destinations in the U.K. beyond London. Piling in Despite these challenges, the London route is deemed so lucrative that companies seem to be piling in. Another would-be competitor, Gemini Trains, says it still wants to run 11 trains a day through the Tunnel by 2030 despite failing in…
At least 306 people have been infected with salmonella in Belgium after they ate eggs, according to figures released by the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC). The outbreak has been linked to eggs produced by Laerco, a company based in Geel in northern Belgium. Salmonella was first detected at the facility at the end of April. The following month, a large-scale recall saw all eggs from the site withdrawn from the market. Contamination spreads At first, the contamination appeared to be confined to one of the company’s four henhouses, but the number of new…
Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) said on Tuesday that it had imposed a fine of 153.7 million reais (€25.57 million) on ByteDance, owner of the social network TikTok, for “irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents”. In addition to the fine, the Chinese platform will be required to delete data collected irregularly and, according to the statement, “ByteDance has also committed to implementing a compliance plan to improve the protection of children and adolescents on TikTok”. The platform will have to automatically apply stricter privacy settings to accounts belonging to children under 16, strengthen systems…