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Published on 27/05/2025 – 11:30 GMT+2A German YouTuber and a London thrill-seeker took top honours (and likely a few bruises) at one of Britain’s most chaotic and bizarre sporting traditions: the annual Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling Race.For the second year in a row, Munich’s Tom Kopke threw caution to the wind, hurtling down the 200-yard, nearly vertical hill after a runaway wheel of Double Gloucester in front of thousands of spectators. “All the people at the top said they were going to steal my title but this is mine,” a shirtless Kopke declared as he clutched his prize – the 7-pound…

Now Sweden is taking Israel to task for its actions.   “Blocking food and other aid to civilians is indefensible. What is unfolding before our eyes is the worst humanitarian situation since the start of the war in October 2023,” the ministry wrote in a statement. “The way the war is now being waged is unacceptable.” The statement emphasized that Israel has a right to defend itself, but that it should do so in accordance with international humanitarian law. Israel launched its war in Gaza in retaliation for the October 2023 attack by militant group Hamas, which killed around 1,200 people.…

Adding to the confusion about the policy, Merz clarified Tuesday that the decision to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied long-range weapons had been made months ago. “The issue of limiting the range of deployed weapons played a role a few months and a few years ago. As far as I know, and as I said yesterday, the countries that imposed range limitations have long since abandoned these requirements,” Merz said during a press conference with Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo in Turku, Finland. “In this respect, yesterday in Berlin, I described something that has been happening for months: namely, that…

In the first round of the 2024 election, Georgescu surged from obscurity to snatch 22.9 percent of the vote. However, Romania’s Constitutional Court canceled the election, citing credible evidence of foreign interference in his favor. Georgescu, an ultranationalist, anti-EU and anti-NATO candidate, was reportedly boosted by Russian interference and a hybrid influence campaign on TikTok. He was barred from running again in the rescheduled May 2025 election, and faces criminal charges related to the suspected promotion of fascist ideologies. The election annulment and Georgescu’s subsequent ban from taking part in the rescheduled election stirred up right-wing outrage around the world,…

Two prosecutors, along with 20 police officers, arrived at OPEKEPE at 9:30 a.m. on May 19 but were obstructed from accessing the data requested, according to EPPO. OPEKEPE employees said they were unable to provide the data owing to the absence of technical advisers. After several hours, the prosecutors requested affidavits from employees confirming their inability to comply, which they refused to sign. The prosecutors asked OPEKEPE’s President Nikos Salatas to sign an affidavit or face arrest for obstructing justice, EPPO said. He ultimately cooperated, and the prosecutors finally left OPEKEPE at 4 a.m. the next day with everything they…

“The single fund would be the end of the Common Agricultural Policy,” Portuguese Agriculture Minister José Manuel Fernandes said, rejecting Commission ideas to merge farm and regional development funds into a single national envelope. “What has success must not be undone.” The “single fund” idea, floated in internal Commission talks, would reframe how EU money is allocated, potentially tying farm spending more directly to broad political goals such as defense or digital transition. Farm ministers see it as a direct threat to the bloc’s shared pot of money they help control, warning it would make it easier to siphon money…

A 2021 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights found that Russia was responsible for human rights violations in Crimea — including torture, unlawful detention and enforced disappearances. That established a key precedent by recognizing that Moscow had effectively seized control of the peninsula from Ukraine by force on Feb. 27, 2014 and not via a legally flawed referendum in March of that year, as Russia claims. That same legal reasoning — that Russia has illegally occupied Ukrainian territory — underpins other key prosecutions, including of the forced deportation of Ukrainian citizens. Recognizing that Russia legally owns Crimea would…

Jette Nietzard, Co-Chefin der Grünen Jugend, provoziert mit Strategie: Ob ACAB-Pullover im Bundestag, Entgleisungen zu Christian Lindner oder radikale Äußerungen auf Parteitagen und in Interviews – ihre Methode ist kalkuliert. Erst provozieren, dann relativieren, dann in ihrer Bubble den Diskurs dominieren. Gordon Repinski analysiert, wie Nietzard mit maximaler Polarisierung maximale Aufmerksamkeit erzeugt – und warum das die Grünen vor eine Zerreißprobe stellt. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht Forschungsministerin Dorothee Bär (CSU) erst über Nietzard und dann über Trumps Feldzug gegen Harvard, die Bedrohung der Wissenschaftsfreiheit und ihre Pläne, internationale Top-Talente nach Deutschland zu holen. Dorothee Bär wurde für die POWERLIST 2025 nominiert…

Prior to this embarrassing set of mismatched actions, Trump and his team had already done cataclysmic damage to America’s standing as a supporter of democracy and human rights in the world: They disparaged multiple democratic allies, threatened some of them with territorial grabs, blamed Ukraine for being invaded by Russia, spoke in support of illiberal right-wing leaders or parties in various democracies, dismantled approximately 90 percent of U.S. assistance directed at supporting democracy abroad, announced a planned evisceration of the State Department’s annual human rights reports, and disbanded the National Security Council’s staff directorate devoted to democracy and human rights.…

A man was arrested after a car hit several people who were in Liverpool city center to celebrate their football club’s Premier League win. The incident happened just after 6 p.m. on Monday, shortly after the conclusion of the parade to celebrate Liverpool Football Club’s Premier League title win. Images from the scene show a large police presence and emergency response. “We can confirm the man arrested is a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area,” local police said. “The scenes in Liverpool are appalling — my thoughts are with all those injured or affected,” British Prime Minister Keir…