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On its current trajectory, Europe’s target for ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030 — a key UN goal — will not be met. Whereas once we talked of this being realized, we now find ourselves discussing the need to adjust our approach and accelerate action if we are to get back on track. This is not where we want, or can afford, to be. But it is where we are. While the global incidence of HIV has declined by 39 percent since 2010, parts of Europe are now seeing infections rise.1 A key concern is that over…
Spain closed the Biriatou border crossing to lorries on Tuesday after farmer protests in France disrupted traffic in the south west. The Spanish Basque Government introduced special measures to manage knock on effects across the Basque Country as roads on the French side remained blocked. Heavy cross border vehicles over 7.5 tonnes are banned from public roads until France says the situation is back to normal. As a result, the Biriatou crossing is closed to those lorries. The Basque traffic department said the Ertzaintza is stopping and impounding vehicles above the limit at several points in the region. In France,…
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“Europe can act together, we have the funds to back up Ukraine for many years, and these funds are taken from Russian assets — this is a very strong message,” Michal said in the run-up to a gathering of leaders from eight EU frontline countries in Helsinki on Tuesday. “We are not against America, we are with America,” he said, but getting an agreement this week would prove we are “a strong partner [which] is better than to have a weak partner.” The comments underscore the sky-high stakes at play as the bloc’s 27 leaders meet this week. Ukraine is…
Several European Union member states gathered in Helsinki on Tuesday for a summit to discuss how to boost their defence and security, particularly at the bloc’s eastern border. “We need to do more together, and we want to send a clear and strong signal from here that we need to do more together and in close coordination with the European Union and NATO,” Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said ahead of the meeting he is hosting. “And why? This is why because Russia is a long-term threat for all of us in Europe. It’s a threat today, tomorrow and in…
By HOWARD FENDRICH with AP Published on 16/12/2025 – 14:34 GMT+1 The ATP Tour is adding a rule to address extreme heat during men’s professional tennis matches that will allow for 10-minute breaks during best-of-three-sets singles matches starting next season. It is similar to what was put in place on the women’s circuit more than 30 years ago. The ATP Board’s approval of the new policy, announced on Monday, strengthens “protections for players competing in extreme conditions,” the tour said. During the Shanghai Masters in October, some players called for the ATP to introduce guidance to help them in cases of extreme heat…
Published on 16/12/2025 – 13:41 GMT+1 Elon Musk’s company SpaceX said its satellites narrowly avoided a collision with another space satellite. SpaceX’s so-called Starlink satellites were orbiting just 200 metres away from nine satellites that were launched by Chinese competitor CAS Space last week, according to Musk’s company. The incident came to light after Michael Nicholls, vice president of Starlink engineering at SpaceX, expressed frustration over what he said was a lack of coordination between operators “When satellite operators do not share ephemeris for their satellites, dangerously close approaches can occur in space,” he wrote on the Musk-owned social media…
A lightning round of talks with EU countries is expected Wednesday afternoon to finalize a common position on the additional instrument. The talks are expected to be prickly, given the time pressure and the fact that the Council of the EU, which represents governments, adopted the original Commission proposal as its position. Final haggling over the agreement with Mercosur — which groups Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay — may run into a summit of European leaders being held in Brussels on Thursday and Friday of this week. Overall, lawmakers backed lower thresholds for Brussels to look into unfair competition and…
Dashcam footage emerged on Tuesday which shows a couple tackling and attempting to disarm one of the attackers in Sunday’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia on Sunday. Boris Gurman, 69, and his wife Sofia Gurman, 61, both stepped in to try and protect others before themselves being shot, the family said in a statement. “We are heartbroken by the sudden and senseless loss of our beloved Boris and Sofia Gurman,” the statement said. Video of the incident taken by a passing car, shows Boris Gurman wrestling with one of the alleged gunmen and managing to get his weapon…
By Euronews with AP Published on 16/12/2025 – 13:32 GMT+1 China will impose tariffs of up to 19.8% on pork imports from the European Union, a drastic drop from preliminary tariffs of up to 62.4%, its Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry’s announcement follows a lengthy Chinese investigation into imports of pork from the EU, launched in June 2024, which concluded that EU products were harming domestic industry. That probe was prompted by the EU’s decision to impose provisional tariffs on China-made electric vehicles last year. Beijing also levied anti-dumping duties on European brandy this summer. The tariffs most notably…