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Published on 22/07/2025 – 20:37 GMT+2 •Updated 20:40 Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice of heavy metal, died on Tuesday at the age of 76 just weeks after his farewell show. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time,” a family statement said. In 2020, he revealed he had Parkinson’s disease…
Asked how such radical solutions could be aligned with EU legislation, Plevris called it “a challenge.” “For our own society, the flows of illegal immigrants are very large. I cannot say that we can manage it,” he said, adding that on the island of Crete “we have every day 1,000 illegal immigrants who want to reach Greece, and in Libya we have 3 million. This means that we have to find solutions within a European framework, but also within our societies.” Some 9,000 people from Libya have arrived on Crete since the beginning of the year, almost double the number…
Israel has blocked most aid from entering Gaza since March, with the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation taking over its distribution since May. At least 1,000 people have been killed seeking food from GHF and aid convoys since then, the U.N. Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) estimates. Israel has previously disputed the number of casualties. “The killing of civilians seeking aid in Gaza is indefensible,” EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday, noting she spoke with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to “make clear the [Israel Defense Forces] must stop killing people at distribution points.” Kallas and von der…
Published on 22/07/2025 – 19:25 GMT+2 Italy’s constitutional court has ruled that the non-biological mother in a same-sex union is entitled to paternity leave, equating her role with that of the father and therefore entitled to bonding time with a newborn. The court found on Monday that a 2001 decree on parental leave was unconstitutional because it didn’t recognise that the non-biological mother in a lesbian civil union was also entitled to Italy’s mandatory 10-day paternity leave. The court argued that the child’s interest in having time with both parents and the parents responsibilities didn’t depend on their sexual orientation.…
PARIS — French Culture Minister Rachida Dati and former Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn will face trial on charges of corruption, a Ministry of Justice official confirmed.Dati is being charged with “passive corruption and influence peddling by a person holding elective public office within an international organization (in this case, the European Parliament),” the official, who was granted anonymity in accordance with standard practice for reporting on certain criminal cases, said in a statement. Ghosn, who is considered a fugitive by both France and Japan after his daring escape from Tokyo in 2019, is accused of “abuse of power by a…
Published on 22/07/2025 – 18:32 GMT+2 From colour-blocked coats to coronation gowns, Queen Elizabeth II’s wardrobe was anything but twin-set and pearls – and soon the public will get a rare chance to see the late monarch’s style up close. A major new exhibition, ‘Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style’, is set to open at The King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace in spring 2026, marking what would have been Her Majesty’s 100th birthday. The show will chart the Queen’s life through fashion, with around 200 pieces on display – including some that have never been shown before. The Royal…
However, he also “thinks it’s just about real estate, about trade and who gets what, be it minerals, land or rare earths,” she explained. What Trump doesn’t understand is that “Putin doesn’t want a ceasefire. [He] wants a neutered Ukraine, not one that is able to withstand military pressure. Everybody sees this, apart from Trump.” And underpinning this soft approach to Moscow, Hill argued, is the U.S. president’s personal idolization of Putin. The Russian president hasn’t shifted any of his preconditions for ending the conflict so far. In fact, at the recent St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, he simply…
Florence has been named Europe’s top city in Travel + Leisure’s 2025 World’s Best Awards, a reader-voted survey that highlights travellers’ favourite destinations around the globe. The Tuscan capital came in 11th overall, the highest-ranking European city on this year’s list. The top spot globally went to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, followed by Oaxaca and Tokyo. While the overall top 10 was dominated by cities in Latin America and Asia, several European cities rounded out the list, all favoured by readers looking for culture, food and historic charm. Italy stands out with three cities on the list The…
The U.K.’s Foreign Office held an Illicit Finance Dialogue with the Overseas Territories last week, where RBOs — a database which shows who truly owns an asset — were discussed. The BVI recently missed a key deadline to implement RBOs by July 2025. It has also recently been placed on the “grey list” for the world’s money laundering watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force, which means a state has “deficiencies” in stopping money laundering and terrorist financing. The territory has put forward its own proposals for a register of “legitimate interest,” one which is not available to the public. Other…
NABU and SAP were created in 2015 with guaranteed prosecutorial independence. That was a key demand for EU integration, Kryvonos added, as he urged Zelenskyy to veto the bill. Zelenskyy’s office did not immediately respond to POLITICO’s request for comment. “This decision would effectively stop our integration into the European Union, as an effective fight against corruption was a key conditionality. And we were praised for NABU and SAP work,” said Tetiana Shevchuk, a lawyer at the Anti-Corruption Action Center, Ukraine’s top watchdog organization. Even though many in Ukraine have disputed NABU’s effectiveness, Shevchuk said that dozens of charges against…