51+ min ago   (731+ words) A major Wildberries distribution centre near Moscow was engulfed by fire early on Sunday, 16 August, during one of the largest Ukrainian drone attacks yet reported against the Moscow region. The warehouse is located at Koledino, in the Podolsk district, about…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (807+ words) The European Union deployed three helicopters and two water-bombing aircraft to Belgium on 15th August as a wildfire in the High Fens expanded to 2,700 hectares, making it the largest recorded fire of its kind in the country. Aircraft were provided by…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (926+ words) The Council has cleared the country’s assisted-dying law to proceed, but imposed binding safeguards for pharmacists and some private healthcare institutions that materially shape how the new right must operate. Decision No 2026-910 DC, issued on 14th August, found the main legislation…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1013+ words) Inflation-adjusted government bond yields in Germany and Britain are trading around their highest levels in more than a decade, increasing the cost of the long-term capital Europe needs for defence, infrastructure and energy security. The rise is part of a…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (803+ words) The Council blocked the central provision of the country’s under-15 social-media ban, ruling that its broad restrictions disproportionately interfered with freedom of expression and failed to protect privacy during age verification. In Decision No 2026-911 DC, issued on 14th August, the court…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (756+ words) Russia has rejected Turkey’s proposal for a moratorium on hostilities in the Black Sea, saying it sees no reason to return to arrangements resembling the 2022-23 Black Sea initiative. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow considered the previous arrangement…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (698+ words) Ukraine has reportedly carried out another long-range attack on Ust-Luga, one of Russia’s largest Baltic ports and an important outlet for its crude oil and petroleum-product exports. Fires and explosions were reported around port infrastructure at Ust-Luga, while Leningrad region…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (665+ words) The difficulty begins when scepticism ceases to be a method of testing claims and becomes a method of avoiding inconvenient facts. The distinction is important. Euroscepticism is not synonymous with conspiracy theory. There are perfectly respectable arguments about national sovereignty,…...

2+ day, 26+ min ago   (875+ words) President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a new tariff structure on imported drones and components, placing qualifying European Union products on a 15 per cent rate while setting duties as high as 100 per cent on aircraft considered especially sensitive…...

2+ day, 39+ min ago   (800+ words) Switzerland’s Federal Council has recommended rejecting a constitutional initiative that would widen the use of double-majority referendums for international treaties, opening a domestic political fight with direct consequences for the country’s new agreements with the European Union. The Kompass initiative…...