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Despite this, Israel has come close to winning the 2025 and 2026 editions of the competition, garnering a strong public vote. Israel’s pubic broadcaster KAN has denied claims that results were unfairly influenced by mass voting campaigns. Eurovision is organized by the European Broadcasting Union, an alliance of 113 public service media organizations across 56 countries. Typically, the national broadcaster that wins the competition hosts the following edition in their home country. There have been some exceptions. When Ukraine won the 2022 contest, the organizers said the country could not host the following year’s contest due to Russia’s ongoing invasion…
Published on 12/08/2026 – 10:25 GMT+2•Updated 12:13 The European Union will provide €2.1 million to Colombia to support its most affected areas following a deadly earthquake that tore through the South American country on Sunday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in an online statement. “As search and rescue operations continue, the EU is supporting Colombia wherever possible,” she said in the statement posted on Tuesday. The funding will provide health, water, sanitation and hygiene material, as well as shelter, food, protection and cash assistance. The president of the EU executive added that Colombia has activated the bloc’s…
Published on 12/08/2026 – 16:50 GMT+2 Two of the most influential voices in energy markets set out opposing readings of the year on Wednesday. The IEA now expects the world to burn less oil in 2026 than it did in 2025, its first such call since Covid-19 ground the global economy to a near-halt, while OPEC still pencils in growth, leaving them more than two million barrels a day apart. The Paris-based IEA now expects global oil demand to fall by 1.6 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2026, a downgrade of 510,000 b/d from July. “The ongoing closure of…
Last February, Sophie Adenot made history by becoming the second French woman to travel into space, after Claudie Haigneré. Six months on, she is about to take another leap forward as she becomes the first French woman to carry out a spacewalk. On Instagram and X, the astronaut shared the news with her followers. On 18 August, she will perform her very first spacewalk from the ISS to help repair the station’s transmission system. She will be joined by American astronaut Anil Menon, who has already taken part in a spacewalk to work on a high-bandwidth antenna used for communications…
“Note: Poland is not included in the Europe region above. Accounts registered in Poland are treated as Poland-only for home-country use,” reads Starlink’s current guidance. Polish Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski also went after Musk, accusing Starlink’s parent company SpaceX of treating Poles as second-class customers and demanding it spell out the regulatory basis for the change. “Poland is not a second-tier market. Polish customers are not second-tier customers,” Gawkowski wrote on X. If SpaceX blames “local regulatory requirements,” Warsaw expects it to point to the specific rules rather than offer “general explanations,” he added. The new rules have applied…
The next European Parliament majority may not be a centrist coalition, according to new data. The three parties — the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), the centrist Renew Europe, and the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) — which have formed a parliamentary majority since its creation would fail to secure one for the first time. The seat projection was published on Wednesday by Europe Elects, an election data platform, which drew on voting intentions from each EU member state and modelled seat allocations based on each country’s electoral law. In recent years, Europe’s mainstream political forces have been on a…
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Lucy Davis, best known for roles in British television series The Office, and films including ‘Shaun of the Dead’, ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’, shared the news in a lengthy Instagram post. The 53-year-old actor said the cancer had spread to her bones, including her spine, right hip and ribs, and that it was too late for chemotherapy. She said the first sign was not an obvious lump, but a very small hard spot that she almost decided not to have checked. Davis also said she is not afraid of what comes next and feels at peace with…
The complaint, which alleges the sale breaches Germany’s Telecommunications, Digital Services and Data Protection Act, was filed against Meta, Ray-Ban and Oakley — eyewear brands that have partnered with Meta to design the glasses — and several retailers. Meta spokesperson Matthew Pollard said the smart glasses were approved by Germany’s regulator BNetzA in 2022, and “were built with privacy safeguards from the ground up that go beyond what any smartphone offers.” Those include an LED light that turns on when the glasses are recording, as well as technology to stop anyone from tampering with the light. HateAid said that smart…
By Gavin Blackburn & Serge Duchêne Published on 12/08/2026 – 16:09 GMT+2•Updated 17:29 France recorded a more than 20% shortfall in nuclear power production capacity on Wednesday, a record deficit caused by environmental-related outages linked to drought, extreme heat and a jellyfish invasion. France uses nuclear power to generate around 70% of its electricity. The country has seen nuclear power production disrupted by multiple heatwaves and droughts this year. According to AFP calculations based on data published by energy group EDF since 2015, 20.4% of generating capacity was unavailable. Between 9:45 am and 10:00 am, EDF’s nuclear fleet recorded a new peak in…