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The petition launched by Eleonore Pattery — an unknown university student from Bordeaux with a focus on environmental rules — calls for repealing the text, arguing that it is “a scientific, ethical, environmental and health aberration.” On Saturday the number of signatures passed the threshold of 500,000. Beyond that threshold, the heads of parliamentary groups or parliamentary committees can propose to organize a parliamentary debate on it. The president of the National Assembly economic affairs committee, Aurélie Trouvé, from the left-wing France Unbowed party, said she will make that proposal in the fall. “It is the first time it happens…
Astronomer, the tech platform whose CEO was spotted embracing an employee on a Jumbotron video at a Coldplay concert earlier this week, announced he was being placed on leave. The company wrote on X that Andy Byron has been replaced by its co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Pete DeJoy, currently serving as interim CEO. Byron was caught in a compromising position with an employee when a “kiss-cam” at a Coldplay concert landed on them. The Astronomer CEO quickly dove out of shot while the woman he was with, Kristin Cabot, who is HR chief of Astronomer, covered her face. The…
Russian drones attacked Ukrainian cities in the night between Friday and Saturday, killing one person and injuring six in a residential building in Odessa. “Last night, our warriors from various units repelled another Russian attack. More than 300 strike drones and over 30 missiles of various types were launched against our cities,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote in a social media post on Saturday. “Target elimination is still ongoing — drones remain in the air,” he added. The Ukrainian army said it shot down 208 Russian drones and missiles. This week the EU adopted an 18th package of sanctions against…
By Euronews with AP Published on 19/07/2025 – 13:47 GMT+2 Russia launched more than 300 drones and over 30 missiles towards different cities in Ukraine overnight into Saturday morning, killing at least one person and injuring several others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. “Rescue operations are underway following the attack: the Donetsk, Kirovohrad, Dnipro, Sumy, Kherson, Volyn, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and Zhytomyr regions were affected,” he wrote on X. The Black Sea port city of Odesa came under fire by 20 drones and a missile, the city’s mayor Hennadii Trukhanov, said Saturday on Telegram. The strike sparked a fire in an apartment…
“In light of the delicate circumstances that the country is going through, in order to save the blood of Syrians, preserve the unity of the Syrian territory and the safety of its people, and in response to national and humanitarian responsibility, the Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic declares a comprehensive and immediate ceasefire,” the Syrian presidency wrote in a statement shared on Telegram on Saturday. “This is a ceasefire achieved through strength,” Netanyahu said in a recorded statement. “Not through pleas, not through begging — through strength.” The U.S.’s Barrack said the agreement is supported by Turkey, Jordan and…
One year ago, a faulty update from a cybersecurity firm took down hospitals, airlines, banks, and government offices around the world. On July 19, 2024, Crowdstrike pushed an update to its Falcon program used by Microsoft Windows computers to collect data on potential new cyberattack methods. The routine operation turned into a “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD) for roughly 8.5 million Microsoft users in what many considered one of the largest internet outages in history. The fallout meant significant financial losses for Crowdstrike’s customers, estimated at around $10 billion (€8.59 billion). “There were no real warning signs that an incident…
In 2023, 15% of employed people in the EU were unable to afford a one-week holiday away from home. While this percentage might not appear very high at first glance, it represents around 42 million workers. In each of the EU’s “Big Four” economies (Germany, France, Spain and Italy), over 5 million workers were unable to afford a week-long holiday according to Eurostat data published by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). “Taking a break with family or friends is important for our physical and mental health, and it is a basic part of the European social contract,” said ETUC…
Published on 18/07/2025 – 20:17 GMT+2 Belgium’s Tomorrowland music festival kicked off on Friday just two days after a massive fire engulfed the main stage and threw one of Europe’s biggest summer concert events into doubt. Workers laboured around the clock to clear out the debris from the elaborate backdrop that went up in flames on Wednesday evening. Shouting ‘”We made it!”, the festival’s opening performers, Australian electronic music group Nervo, were able to take to the replacement main stage on Friday after a last-minute scramble and a slight delay. Some charred framework from the original stage were visible behind…
Published on 18/07/2025 – 19:39 GMT+2 Trinidad and Tobago declared a new state of emergency on Friday after authorities accused a criminal network operating in prisons across the country of plotting to kill key government officials and attack public institutions. Police said that smuggled mobile phones enabled those involved in the plot to exchange encrypted messages. Months of intelligence gathering led investigators to believe the targets included senior police officers, members of the judiciary and employees at the state prosecution office, police said. There were no particular threats to any politicians, police said. “They were planning, actively so, to carry…
The EU’s proposed budget for 2028 until 2034 runs the risk of turning its cohesion policy into a competition for funding, as it would merge it with other major spending areas. There are now concerns over reduced local control and lack of support for disadvantaged regions. For decades, cohesion funds have helped reduce regional disparities across the EU, supporting everything from road construction and hospital upgrades to unemployment, training programmes and green initiatives. As one of the EU’s most tangible policy tools, cohesion funding has delivered visible results in citizens’ daily lives — but that may be about to change.…