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By Gavin Blackburn with AP Published on 11/06/2025 – 18:31 GMT+2The UN migration agency said on Wednesday that eight migrants died and 22 others are missing after they were forced off a boat near the coast of Djibouti.The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said in a statement the migrants were part of a group of 150 who were forced by smugglers to disembark a boat and swim to shore on 5 June.The migrants were found in the desert by IOM patrol teams and taken to a migrant response centre.The IOM and authorities in Djibouti are continuing with a search and rescue operation to…
“While illegal firearms have been most commonly used by criminal networks when carrying out violent attacks, there is a growing tendency toward using explosives,” Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer and Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin, said in the letter dated May 22. One key source of explosives is “pyrotechnic articles,” Strömmer and Bohlin wrote — a technical term that often refers to fireworks. “The development in modus has changed rapidly, and there is considerable risk that this type of violence spreads rapidly to other member states,” the ministers warned. The Commission should “rapidly” update the EU’s Pyrotechnics Directive, a 2013…
A 21-year-old former student opened fire at BORG Dreierschützengasse on Tuesday, killing ten and injuring several others before taking his own life. Police said the attacker, who lived near Graz and had no previous criminal record, used two legally owned firearms.Special forces responded within minutes, evacuating the building and restoring security in just 17 minutes. Footage showed students fleeing past armed officers. The school, located a kilometre from Graz’s centre, remains closed.
“I have no questions for Donald Tusk. You don’t ask liars questions,” said Janusz Kowalski, an MP for PiS. “June 1 marked the end of the project called Donald Tusk, just like communism ended 26 years ago. This is the end of the prime minister of illegal migrants, the prime minister of public finance disaster, the prime minister of lies and contempt for Poles,” Kowalski said. In his speech, Tusk defended his government’s record and urged parliament to reaffirm its backing for him, saying “11.5 million voters handed the responsibility for Poland” to the coalition in the 2023 election that…
Austria is observing three days of national mourning for 10 people killed after a gunman attacked a high school in the southern city of Graz.The incident in Austria’s second-largest city of some 300,000 was the deadliest mass shooting in the Alpine country’s recent history. Police are investigating why the gunman, identified by authorities as a former student at the school who failed to graduate, may have carried out the attack. The perpetrator, identified by Austrian media as “Artur A”, had no prior criminal record. He reportedly took his own life in the school bathroom after carrying out the attack. During…
Published on 11/06/2025 – 14:44 GMT+2Amazon will on Thursday try to convince EU judges that it should not have to comply with the strictest requirements under the bloc’s online platform rules – the Digital Services Act (DSA) – because it does not pose the systemic risks that the rules intend to combat.The DSA entered into force in 2023 and obliges platforms to prevent illegal activities online as well as to counter the spread of disinformation.Amazon is one of the 25 Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) that were designed by the European Commission because they have more than 45 million users…
Around 3,000 visitors have added their signatures to a new pledge calling for more responsible tourism along the route of one of Scotland’s most famous road trips. The NC500 is roughly 830 kilometres long, a round route beginning and ending in the city of Inverness and weaving through some of the Highlands’ most suggestive landscapes. The pledge, set up by the North Coast 500 Ltd company last October, was designed to encourage responsible and environmentally conscious tourism throughout the Scottish Highlands. It hopes to address the complex challenges that tourism brings to local communities, especially along the popular coastal route.A…
“I made the choices necessary to fix the foundations of our economy,” Reeves said, after national insurance contributions were increased for employers earlier this year. Reeves, whose ruling Labour Party is under electoral pressure from Nigel Farage’s insurgent rightwing Reform UK, also confirmed she would end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers by the next general election, due in 2029. Funding will “cut the asylum backlog, hear more appeal cases and return people who have no right to be here, saving the taxpayer £1 billion a year,” she added. Reeves also used her House of Commons platform to…
The unrest, involving several hundred people, erupted following a peaceful march on Monday in support of a sexual assault victim’s family. Violence broke out that evening, with homes set ablaze and 15 officers injured, police said.On Tuesday, officers deployed water cannons and plastic baton rounds to control the crowd. Two 14-year-old boys have been charged in connection with the alleged assault; both appeared in court with a Romanian interpreter.Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson condemned the “racially motivated disorder,” urging the public to reject any justification for the violence.
By AP Published on 11/06/2025 – 15:27 GMT+2President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States will get magnets and rare earth minerals from China under a new trade deal and that tariffs on Chinese goods will rise to 55%.In return, Trump said the US will provide China “what was agreed to”, including allowing Chinese students to attend American colleges and universities. The Republican president had recently begun to clamp down on the presence of Chinese nationals on US college campuses.The new 55% tariff rate would mark a meaningful increase from the 30% levy set in Switzerland during talks in…