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Google has said it will make the change in line with US President Donald Trump’s executive order, but users in Mexico will still see the Gulf of Mexico. Google has said it will rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US, following an executive order by US President Donald Trump. One of Trump’s first orders after taking office last week was to officially change the name of the body of water which stretches from Florida to Cancun, and to rename the Alaskan peak Denali — the tallest mountain in North America —…

Le Pacte vert “enfermera l’Europe dans une économie de consommation et nous reléguera à la marge du monde”, écrit Jordan Bardella. La lettre de Jordan Bardella note que si les quatre groupes de droite s’unissaient, ils disposeraient d’une majorité de sièges au Parlement. Il s’agit d’une “majorité alternative” qui est “possible et nécessaire face à la gauche qui, par idéologie, menace la croissance”. L’extrême droite européenne s’oppose depuis longtemps au Pacte vert, un ensemble de politiques ambitieuses destinées à lutter contre le changement climatique et adoptées au cours du premier mandat de la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von…

Climate campaigners are urging the EU to step into the “leadership void” left by the US. As soon as US President Donald Trump was inaugurated, he began tearing up climate rules and regulations. He vowed to drill more oil and gas – despite record production in the US last year – to remove funding for EV chargers, leave the Paris Agreement, stop Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act investments, put a pause on wind power and far more. Such sweeping changes to the world’s biggest economy are unlikely to stay within the country’s borders. Trump’s deregulation drive also emboldens those who want their own…

“In order not to further raise tensions in society, I made this decision,” Vučević said, adding that he discussed the matter with Vučić, who has been grappling with rising pressure from protests in recent weeks. Following a deadly canopy collapse at a train station in Novi Sad that killed 15 people on Nov. 1, a wave of protests swept Serbia with the biggest drawing around 100,000 people in December; it was the largest since demonstrations that helped topple longtime ruler Slobodan Milošević in 2000. The mass protests at universities have extended beyond academia, with farmers, judiciary members and parts of…

For more than 60 years, Europe has led a global trend towards legal access to abortion. Fears of a reversal of this trend have led to the campaign “My Choice, My Voice”, a citizens’ initiative calling for action from the European Commission. The Commission is obliged to formally respond to the initiative’s demand for a proposal to “ensure that all EU citizens, regardless of nationality or residence, have access to safe and legal abortion services”, as the petition exceeded the legal threshold of 1 million signatures collected from more than seven member states, in this case 15 member states were covered.In the EU, almost…

The newly inaugurated U.S. president has become increasingly focused on claiming the huge Arctic island, and has pointedly not ruled out using military force or economic coercion to take it from Denmark later in the day. Frederiksen was in Berlin and Paris Tuesday morning to speak with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron, respectively, and is set to meet NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Brussels. “If Denmark calls for help, France will be there,” he said. “The European borders are sovereign whether it’s north, south, east and west … nobody can allow themselves to mess around with…

The main artefact stolen from the Drents museum was the golden helmet of Cotofenesti, which was on loan from the National History Museum of Romania. Thieves set off an explosion to gain entry into the Drents museum in the Dutch city of Assen, allowing them to steal several artefacts from a major exhibition called ‘Dacia – Empire of Gold and Silver.’According to police, the museum was hit by a heavy explosion on Saturday morning which destroyed a car, shattered windows and damaged the building.The golden helmet of Cotofenesti from c.450 BC is considered a masterpiece of Thracian-Getic goldsmithing art. It…

“We have seen incidents of sabotage taking place across NATO countries over a period of the last couple of years, by which I mean derailment of trains, acts of arson, attacks on politicians’ property, plots to assassinate industry leaders, like publicly the head of Rheinmetall, but there were other plots as well,” Appathurai told a European Parliament committee meeting on hybrid warfare Tuesday morning. According to Appathurai, the Russians recruit personnel for their plots online, using “criminal gangs or unwitting youth or migrants” to carry out the criminal acts. “They are generally crudely done, but they are done with a…

Updated: 28/01/2025 – 13:15 GMT+1The Surva festival in Pernik, Bulgaria, brings together 12,000 performers to drive out evil spirits, mark the end of winter and welcome spring. … More The Surva International Masquerade Games Festival in Pernik, Bulgaria, attracts over 12,000 international performers and groups.Known as “Kukeri”, the intricately costumed masked dancers drive away evil spirits, celebrate the end of winter and welcome spring.Recognised by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, this centuries-old tradition unites different regions and cultures, earning Pernik the title of World Capital of Masquerade Games and Traditions.

Divide and conquer In some ways, the divide-and-conquer approach seems already to be working. Trump has threatened NATO ally Denmark with sanctions unless Copenhagen gives in to his demands on Greenland, which haven’t been precisely spelled out. Rather than seek a strong, coordinated response from leaders via the EU, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has asked her colleagues to stand down out of concern that their comments could further inflame the situation, said two EU diplomats. They, like others quoted in the piece, were granted anonymity to speak candidly about the transatlantic rapport. “From what we can see, they [Trump’s administration]…