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Updated: 08/08/2025 – 18:00 GMT+2 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this August 8th, 2025 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More
LONDON — MPs enjoyed free hospitality at the U.K.’s top events this summer, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer accepting tickets to Ascot for his family. Google paid for several MPs to attend Glastonbury Festival including Labour’s Chris Curtis, Dan Aldridge, Leigh Ingham, Steve Race, Jake Richards and Fred Thomas. The hospitality cost of the individual packages was worth up to £4,000. Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Conservative MP Caroline Dinenage, who has been critical of tech companies using copyrighted material to train their AI models, also took a Glastonbury ticket and a tent from Google. Deputy Speaker…
Published on 08/08/2025 – 18:03 GMT+2 A Belarusian journalist has been handed a 10-year prison sentence on charges of treason and disclosing state secrets, according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), which revealed the verdict on Friday. Danil Palianski, 53, who contributed to several independent news outlets, was convicted in a closed trial on 25 July, but details of the ruling only surfaced a day before the fifth anniversary of the controversial 2020 presidential election that entrenched Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s grip on power and triggered mass protests. According to media reports, in September 2024, while visiting family in Russia, Palianski…
The outspoken vice president even resisted the chance to criticize laws governing freedom of speech and belief in the U.K., of which he has been damning in the past. He acknowledged he had “raised some criticism, concerns about our friends on this side of the Atlantic” but specified that “many of the things that I worry most about were happening in the United States from 2020 to 2024.” “I just don’t want other countries to follow us down what I think was a very dark path under the Biden administration,” Vance said, insisting that his concerns about free speech are…
The FBI arresting Barack Obama in the Oval Office. The devastated Gaza Strip turned into a luxury seaside resort. Donald Trump as the next Pope, a jedi, Superman or in Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle jeans. If you have been online in recent months (chronically or no), chances are that you have come across these AI-generated images. More often than not, the images are not only posted by obscure social media accounts with 12 followers but also by the president and his closest allies. Even the White House’s official accounts, which are passed down from one administration to the next, are…
The bridge attack prompted fears that Russians are planning to retake Kherson. Russia seized the city of 300,000 in the early days of its full-scale attack on Ukraine in 2022, but was driven out later that year. Holding the city, located on the far side of the massive Dnipro River from its main forces, proved to be very difficult for Russia, and any returning forces would face the same challenges. “An attempt to land troops in the Korabel area after the bridge was destroyed looks like suicide — it will be difficult to expand the bridgehead and hold it. The…
The fast-paced format, with only minutes for each player to complete their moves, ended with victory for Duda, one of the world’s top-ranked players and the first Pole to surpass the 2700 Elo “super grandmaster” mark. Speaking ahead of the game, Duda described chess as a lifelong passion combining logic and psychology. Interest in chess is surging in Poland, with over 40,000 registered players and growing school programmes, including classes now offered in half of Katowice’s primary schools.
From the get-go, writer-director Zach Cregger aims to get under your skin. A child narrator sets up the “true story,” in which “a lot of people die in a lot of really weird ways.” The unseen youth is not wrong. Before we get to those deaths, we’re presented with Weapon’s central mystery through enduring imagery: 17 children in the small town of Maybrook wake up one night at precisely 2:17am. They all rush out of their bedrooms and run off into the night, arms outstretched in a particularly eerie fashion – as if they were flying off to Neverland. They are…
Germany has long emphasized Israel’s right to self-defense and reiterated Friday that “the disarmament of Hamas is essential.” However, Merz sharply criticized the humanitarian consequences of Israel’s planned offensive, urging the government to allow “full access for aid deliveries, including for U.N. organizations and other non-governmental institutions.” “The Israeli government carries greater responsibility than ever for the civilian population’s supply,” Merz said. Germany is one of Israel’s closest defense partners in Europe. The freeze affects only new arms export approvals. Deliveries from past deals can still go ahead — but if the weapons could be used in Gaza, those shipments may…
The hills of Atapuerca in Burgos, Spain, have long been a treasure trove for scientists. However, their latest revelation pushes the boundaries of what we thought we knew about our prehistoric past. Dating back roughly 5,700 years, skeletal remains found in El Mirador cave bear chilling signs of cannibalism: precise cut marks, controlled burning, evidence of cooking – even human bite marks. According to Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology-Mérida (IAM-CSIC) and co-author of the study published in Scientific Reports, while recorded examples of prehistoric cannibalism are “relatively few,” in Neolithic Iberia the practice was “more frequent than…