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Exercises like the Dacian Spring “are a strategic signal,” he added. In the past few years, France’s land forces have started a “profound transformation” to be ready for a high-intensity conflict similar to the war in Ukraine. The French army also has new marching orders from NATO: By 2027 it should be able to deploy a war-ready division in 30 days, including ammunition and supplies. Moving toward that goal is at the heart of next year’s Dacian Spring exercise, top officers explained. The French army will train to send a war-ready brigade to Romania in 10 days — a intermediary step…
A new vaccine trial is under way in Rwanda as the country fights an outbreak of the highly deadly Marburg virus. Rwanda is trialling vaccine doses against the Marburg virus as authorities work to end an outbreak of the deadly virus.The East African country received 700 doses of a vaccine candidate from the United States-based Sabin Vaccine Institute on Saturday.”Per the approved protocol, approximately 700 high-risk adults, starting with health care providers, will be dosed at six clinical trial sites in Rwanda,” the institute said in a statement.The single-dose vaccine is currently in phase two trials in Uganda and Kenya…
A new study has found that a visit to some of the continent’s most popular cities doesn’t have to break the bank. Some holiday destinations in Europe can be staggeringly expensive – think Monaco, Switzerland and the Amalfi Coast. However, the continent boasts 44 countries and territories, meaning there are trips on offer for every budget. If you’re looking for a European break which won’t break the bank, you’re in luck.Interrail Pass provider Eurail has compiled a handy list of the continent’s top ten most affordable cities. Many of them are within reach of the others, too, so a multi-city trip…
The doctor pleaded guilty to attempted murder after injecting his mother’s partner with what was most likely a pesticide in January, while pretending he was a nurse there to administer a COVID-19 jab A doctor in the UK has pleaded guilty to attempting to kill his mother’s long-term partner by injecting the man with poison disguised as a COVID-19 vaccine.Thomas Kwan pretended to be a nurse delivering booster shots and injected Patrick O’Hara with a toxic substance, likely a pesticide. O’Hara, 72, developed a rare flesh-eating disease that left him in intensive care.Kwan initially denied attempted murder but changed his…
Hera will survey the asteroid deflected by NASA’s DART spacecraft, the results of which could lay the foundation of Earth’s planetary defence system. A European mission that could prove fundamental to the future survival of life on Earth lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Monday.Hera, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first planetary defence space mission, launched on board a Space X Falcon 9 rocket and is bound for the asteroid Dimorphos 195 million km away.The Falcon 9 launcher carrying the Hera spacecraft took off at 10.52am ET (4.52pm CET) and successfully deployed its solar panels an hour later.Hera’s…
Luca Gamberini and his team are exploring a new frontier for farming without harming the environment. Their project, Nemo’s Garden, involves submerging subaquatic structures ten metres deep off Italy’s northwestern coast.Through a single underwater venture, Luca Gamberini and his father hope to address issues of limited arable land, food security and emissions from agricultural activities.
EU leaders are pushing for quicker ways to deport people amid a broader push to crack down on immigration, according to a draft report obtained by POLITICO. The leaders plan to press the bloc’s executive arm, the European Commission, to come up with new guidelines on deportations when they meet in Brussels on Oct. 17, the draft report of their conclusions reads. “The European Council calls for determined action at all levels to increase and speed up returns from the European Union,” the draft obtained by POLITICO reads. “It invites the Commission and Council to swiftly put forward a new…
Cities across Europe held events to remember over 1200 Israelis who were killed last year on 7 October and those taken hostage by Hamas. Police targeted a group of protesters in Amsterdam on Monday, as they marched through the city in support of Palestinians amid Israel’s now year-long military campaign on Gaza.Protesters had gathered at Damrak, close to the Dutch capital’s better-known Dam Square, where a pro-Israeli gathering was taking place. Police met the pro-Palestinian protesters as they attempted to approach Dam Square, who used batons to hit the people in the crowd, in an attempt to prevent them from…
The dinosaurs had no such ability to deflect the Chicxulub impactor which wiped them out 66 million years ago. Once it arrives in late 2026, Hera will carry out a crash-scene investigation in deep space to determine exactly what happened after DART’s explosive impact on Dimorphos. It will use its own micro satellites to get close to the asteroid, as well as a range of onboard sensors to determine everything from cracks in the central asteroid structure to assessing the composition of any dust floating around it. It’s all part of plans to have mankind ready to counter asteroid oblivion…
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give the Chagos Islands away in return for its own independence from Britain, with more than 1,000 islanders forcibly removed at the request of the U.S. A 2019 advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice, which adjudicates on disputes between nations, found that the detachment of the Chagos Islands from Mauritius was “not based on the free and genuine expression of the will of the people concerned.” It said the U.K. was “under an obligation to bring to an end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as rapidly as possible.” The foreign…