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Global warming has also vastly expanded marine heat waves, the researchers found when comparing this year’s conditions to a simulated world without climate change. This year, 90 percent of the Bay of Biscay experienced hot temperatures and 80 percent of the Western Mediterranean; without global warming, only 40 percent of each region would have been affected. The difference is even more dramatic in the Eastern Mediterranean, where 70 percent of the seas experienced marine heat waves this year, a figure plunging to 9 percent in a world without climate change. Around Ireland, the extent drops from 80 percent to 30…

Sandro Garibaldi, a member of the regional council in Liguria for the League, was bitten on the hand by a wolf earlier this year. Garibaldi had interrupted the wolf in the process of killing some sheep. It’s not clear if the wolf in question was the same one that killed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s pet pony, Dolly. A flock of Lories, arboreal parrots make friends with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her visit to the bird park in Marlow. | Franzi Zoger/EPA Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel wasn’t bitten by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dog when she visited…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused the court of threatening American sovereignty, saying the administration was acting to protect its citizens from a “sham” institution and would never allow Americans to be “transported beyond seas to be tried for pretend offenses.” Tuesday’s sanctions are part of a campaign Washington launched last month to cripple the ICC. The U.S. has already sanctioned at least 11 ICC officials and has urged the court’s 125 member states to withdraw from the organization. The Hague-based ICC, established in 2002, prosecutes genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Its pursuit of charges against senior…

Mykhailo Fedorov has called for elections in Ukraine despite Russia’s ongoing invasion, after his firing as defense minister sparked nationwide protests against President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The president has been under increasing pressure at home following the controversial government reshuffle last month in which he pushed out Fedorov, a popular minister credited with inspiring battlefield innovations. “People cannot endlessly live in a state where they do not understand why certain decisions are made,” Fedorov said in a video address Tuesday night, alluding to the reshuffle.

Firefighters launched a potentially decisive push to encircle Belgium’s largest wildfire in a century on Tuesday, despite wind and rain hampering air support operations over the High Fens nature reserve. The blaze charring the vast expanse of boggy peatlands, pine trees and hiking trails grew over the weekend to half the size of Manhattan with hundreds of firefighters working night and day to wrestle it under control. “We are trying to definitively encircle the fire today,” regional government spokesperson Nicolas Yernaux told the AFP news agency. In areas where firefighters could operate, he confirmed the fire was “under control and…

Published on 18/08/2026 – 20:33 GMT+2 St Pancras International station in London was briefly evacuated on Tuesday as a police bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion of an unattended car nearby. In a post on X, Transport for London (TfL) Access said the “Main and North Entrance/Entry” at Kings Cross St Pancras tube station also closed due to the presence of the vehicle, at the request of the Metropolitan Police. It said at 3:24 pm local time that the station had fully reopened. Police have since declared the incident as non-suspicious. Images circulating on social media appear to show…

Following the mass arrival of migrants from Morocco to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, on 30 and 31 July, most of whom have since been returned to Morocco, the government reinforced its security operation in the autonomous city by deploying various National Police units, including the Police Intervention Units (UIP). Weeks later, several of the officers sent to Ceuta have voiced their dissatisfaction with the accommodation conditions they are facing during their stay in the city. According to accounts given by the officers themselves to the daily ‘El Faro de Ceuta’, and also reported by the Spanish Confederation of Police…

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The battle between UniCredit and Commerzbank is entering a decisive phase. After almost two years of confrontation, the German wall appears to be showing its first cracks: according to Bloomberg, some senior figures in the Berlin government are ready to discuss the sale to UniCredit of the 12.7% stake still held by the German state, provided an agreement is reached on the strategy and future of the Frankfurt-based bank. It is not yet an official government decision, but the signal is significant. If the deal goes through, UniCredit’s stake would rise from the current roughly 47.6% to over 60% of…

Published on 18/08/2026 – 14:42 GMT+2•Updated 15:08 The Leoncin commune, east-central Poland on 14 August reported an unusual visitor in the garden of one of the houses. According to the account, the property owners alerted the authorities to a porcupine that first “sampled the garden plants”, and as the owner was reporting its presence, “managed to get into the house”. The latest incident follows that of 11 August in Łomianki, where the first porcupine was caught and another was found in the Mazovian region. Both animals were placed under the care of a vet, who confirmed that they were healthy.…