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In the next iteration of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, applicable from 2028, the Commission wants to see a “transition payment” for farmers that could be used for this purpose to support a move into shepherding, Bogey added. The EU is also working on a financial scheme with the European Investment Bank for investments in the livestock sector Gonna need a lot of goats In Madrid, one of the regions hardest hit by the fires, the local government is also looking to livestock grazing as fire prevention. Local farms would deploy animals to a forested area of 3,700 hectares, they…
Published on 30/07/2026 – 8:47 GMT+2 Reports in Poland claim an unidentified object was detected in Polish airspace at about 3:40am CETon Thursday as helicopter crews discovered a crater near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia after what is believed to be a missile dropped off radar. No casualties were reported from the site, which is 70 kilometres inside the Polish border. It coincided with a night of Russian strikes on Ukraine that killed at least eight people and left more than a dozen wounded. Four adults and two girls aged five and 12 were killed by a ballistic missile that detonated…
Video shows dozens of migrants, including families with young children, walking into the sea from Gravelines beach in northern France as they attempt to board a small rigid-inflatable boat heading towards England. Rescue teams monitor the scene and hand out life jackets. Some migrants are seen carrying babies and children as they wait in the water for the overcrowded dinghy. The small vessel fills with passengers before leaving the French coast, while those unable to board return to the beach. The English Channel crossing from France to the UK remains a dangerous journey for people hoping to reach British shores.…
NB: This is a spoiler-free review. It’s no hot take to state that Marvel’s MCU has been on an almighty downslide since the 2021 start of Phase Four and the laborious Phase 5, collectively known as “The Multiverse Saga”. What started as a well-orchestrated superhero saga has unraveled with patience testing and increasingly underpowered movies which have strayed away from original relatability of the stories, which featured crazy superhero antics set inside the real world. The mostly filler multiverse stories not only required extensive homework to keep up but squandered too many plotlines and characters, which directly fed a state…
According to the French insurance lobby France Assureurs, home insurance premiums already increased by 7.8 percent in 2025, while the climate disaster premium — which doesn’t cover wildfires — rose by 66 percent. For now, most French residents can still easily obtain home insurance anywhere in mainland France, according to the public reinsurer. But it is seeing early signs of strain in a few cities, where insurance is becoming harder to obtain, or increasingly unaffordable. Bit by bit, such trends push the cost of insurance beyond what businesses or households can afford, leading to an ever-wider ‘protection gap’. Around half of global economic losses from natural disasters were uninsured last year, according to insurance giant…
If you send a message on Signal or WhatsApp today, EU law does not apply to it for now. If you send the same photo through an unencrypted app, it may already be checked by an automated system before anyone reads it. This distinction, rather than a broad claim that “the EU reads your DMs,” reflects the core issue in the ongoing debate over Chat Control and the detection of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online. A revived temporary regulation, in force until 2028, allows platforms to voluntarily scan private messages, photos, and videos for CSAM. This does not apply…
Authorities in the German city of Cologne provided public water sprinklers to allow people to cool off as temperatures reached 35C. Video from Rudolfplatz shows residents and visitors strolling beneath the water sprays. The sprinklers are part of the city’s ‘Cooling Cologne’ campaign, launched in 2025 in partnership with local utility firm RheinEnergie. The misting systems are installed in areas most affected by extreme heat and operate only when the German Weather Service issues official heat warnings.
South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a record operating profit of ₩89.5 trillion (€54 billion) for the April-to-June period, up 56% quarter on quarter and more than 19 times the level recorded a year earlier. Based on Samsung’s published rounded figures, the semiconductor business’s operating profit rose to ₩89.2 trillion (€53.8 billion), 223 times its year-earlier level of ₩0.4 trillion (€241 million). Samsung’s semiconductor business benefited from rising chip prices driven by demand for AI servers and increased shipments of advanced high-bandwidth memory chips used to power AI applications. That outweighed an operating loss in its mobile,…
This summer, amid scorching heatwaves, travellers are looking beyond the usual Mediterranean destinations in hopes of cooler escapes. But will this only be a one-off summer, or mark a durable shift in the tourism market? With temperatures in the European summer now climbing up towards 40C, the trend of seeking out cool has now become cool. This year, visitors “have been telling me that they have escaped the heat in southern parts of Europe”, said Terje Viblom Pedersen, a guide who offers tours in southeastern Sweden. They are “just amazed” by the daytime high temperatures under 30C and sea breezes,…
The Beit Beirut museum’s “Tell Me, South” exhibition has had a constant stream of visitors since its opening back in May. The Sodeco district venue in the Lebanese capital has attracted almost unprecedented attention due to its display of family photos, testimonies and personal stories that have made their way to the city. The aim is to show South Lebanon through its people, far from an image that reduces it to devastation, so that the South’s past does not slip into oblivion and war does not wear it down to death in the memories of its sons and daughters. Despite…