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Donald Pols, the former director of Milieudefensie, the Dutch branch of major environmental NGO “Friends of the Earth,” sparked controversy last month when he accepted the position of Chief Sustainability Officer at multinational company Tata Steel. On Tuesday, however, Tata Steel announced the sudden termination of Pols’s contract after just one day on the job, stating that “additional information about his background has come to light” that “has affected us and was not previously shared with the company.” Later, Dutch newspaper NRC revealed Pols had been a member of the far-right South African Afrikaner Studente Front (ASF) movement during his…
Bolivia’s defence and education ministers resigned on Tuesday after weeks of protests demanding President Rodrigo Paz step down, authorities said. The departures are the latest escalation in a deepening political crisis that has paralysed major cities and threatened Paz’s government. Workers, farmers, miners, transport workers and teachers are demanding measures to ease the country’s worst economic crisis in four decades. Paz, who was backed by US President Donald Trump, has warned that Bolivia is at a “breaking point.” The government has refused to rule out declaring a state of emergency and using the military to control the demonstrations. “Yes, this…
The Baltic country’s constitution prohibits weapons of mass destruction within its borders, but President Gitanas Nausėda has floated amending the fundamental law, citing current security risks. The Financial Times reported this week that U.S. officials were in talks to deploy nuclear warheads and bombers to countries on NATO’s eastern flank. American nukes are currently stored in military facilities in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Turkey, the Netherlands and the U.K. The negotiations coincide with the scheduled departure of around 1,000 U.S. troops from Lithuania. Kaunas said a fresh rotation of American military personnel to the Baltic country remained “under review” by Washington,…
The European Commission is set to allow limited energy-related spending from fiscal rules to give EU countries more leeway to address soaring prices. The measures announced by the EU executive on Wednesday are an attempt to reassure fiscally conservative capitals struggling with skyrocketing energy bills that are threatening industrial production. In particular, the relaxation is an indirect response to Italy’s recent call for the bloc to treat the energy crisis as equivalent to a defence emergency. Italy has the second-highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the EU after Greece, limiting Rome’s room for large-scale subsidies under existing fiscal rules. Italian Prime Minister…
Public transport and public services across Portugal faced major disruption on Wednesday as workers joined a 24-hour general strike over proposed labour reforms. The action affected trains, metro services, schools, hospitals and waste collection, with commuters facing delays and cancellations nationwide. In Lisbon, metro stations remained closed while railway stations displayed long lists of cancelled services. Airports were also affected, with hundreds of flights grounded. Many workers were forced to seek alternative transport as the strike hit the morning commute. Lisbon’s trains stood empty and metro stations shut on Wednesday as a 24-hour general strike by transport and municipal workers…
Published on 03/06/2026 – 13:36 GMT+2 Anthropic is expanding testing of Mythos, its latest cybersecurity model, by bringing in around 150 additional partners. The company, seen as the main rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, announced in April that it was launching Mythos, a model it said “has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser.” Mythos was initially restricted to 50 initial partners who had access to the preview model under the so-called “Project Glasswing” and, according to Anthropic, have used it to find more than 10,000 high or critical security flaws. Now,…
Meliá Hotels International has informed the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) on Wednesday of the immediate halt to the management, marketing and use of its brands at 15 hotels in Cuba. It is doing so through its Portuguese subsidiary Ilha Bela, which has notified a decision that had already been communicated in advance to the owners on 26 May. The Mallorca-based group was the last major operator with a significant presence on the island. The Trump administration set 5 June as the deadline for foreign companies to cut their ties with businesses linked to Gaesa and its subsidiaries, the military…
Farage said earlier this year that “London is broken. London is lawless,” in response to disorder which took place in an area of South London at the end of March. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has accused U.S. President Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters and Russia of spreading misinformation about London on social media, despite figures showing crime has significantly fallen under his watch. Khan has pushed an alternative trend, known as “Londonmaxxing,” to highlight positive aspects of the city. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan participates in the SXSW London event on June 1, 2026. | Jack Taylor/Getty Images for…
According to Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, the fertility rate in Germany in 2024 was 1.35 children per woman, two percent fewer than in the previous year. Provisional figures for 2025 point to a further decline, to around 654,300 births. But the desire to have children is still there. An analysis by the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) shows that women would like to have an average of 1.76 children, and men 1.74. “Having children remains a central life goal for most young people. The current decline in births therefore does not indicate a waning commitment to family life, but…
Last month’s drone attack on the UAE’s Barakah nuclear power plant was potentially more dangerous than the situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia facility because the reactors were operating at the time, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said. Speaking to Euronews after visiting the plant in the western part of the Gulf country, the head of the IAEA described the attack as an “extremely serious and irresponsible act” and warned of the risks posed by targeting civilian nuclear infrastructure. “A nuclear power plant, apart from being a very important part of the energy infrastructure of a country, is…