More than one million hectares burned in Europe in the summer of 2025. Despite the growing threat, unions warn that firefighter numbers remain 'woefully low', urging investment in staffing, prevention and civil protection.
Altered photos of women, including Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, accompanied by sexist comments, have stirred outrage in the country. But it is not the first case to affect social platforms.
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Local officials warned the death toll was likely to rise after the quake struck the province on Kunar in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.
The researchers said their analysis is the most comprehensive yet to explore how intensive blood pressure control affects people’s health.
The Chinese president addressed Eurasian leaders at the opening banquet of what Beijing is calling a pivotal meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, where he underlined the need for greater cooperation to address global crises and promote growth and development.
According to the latest Public Health England report on gambling, 0.5% of the population (approximately 246,000 people) are problem gamblers, and 3.8% (2.2 million people) are 'at-risk' gamblers. The figures may seem relatively small, certainly compared with, say, 20 years ago,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says "urgent investigations" are underway to establish what happened.
The Global Sumud Flotilla will be the fourth attempt to break the maritime blockade so far this year, it is the largest attempt yet to break the long-standing Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory by sea.
Abu Obeida’s last statement was issued Friday as Israel launched its expanded offensive and declared Gaza City a combat zone.
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto cancelled a planned visit to China on Saturday, after protests that had been ongoing for days spread beyond the capital, Jakarta.
Moscow continues to intensify its attacks on Ukraine, meanwhile, Zelenskyy reported the Russian army is suffering 'heavy losses' in Pokrovsk region.
Polish PM Donald Tusk and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived at the Polish-Belarusian border on Sunday to discuss defence and security, including the SAFE preferential loan programme, of which Poland is the greatest beneficiary.
Putin is among a dozen leaders attending the regional security summit, which comes at a crunch moment in talks over his war on Ukraine, and for a summit thats demonstrating a strong show of unity among Global South leaders.
Lithuania has installed "dragon's teeth" - pyramids designed to stop tanks - on the border with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave. "The installed barriers are only part of a larger, integrated picture," said Lithuanian army commander Raimundas Vaiksnoras.
In 2024, a record 16,342 foreigners obtained Polish citizenship - 37% more than in the previous year. The most numerous group was made up of people from Ukraine. However, they accounted for just over half of all new citizens.
The neo-Nazi Marla-Svenja Liebich, formerly known as Sven Liebich, failed to show up for a sentence in Chemnitz women's prison and has allegedly fled to Moscow in Russia.
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The visit to China is Modi's first visit since relations between the two countries deteriorated after Chinese and Indian soldiers engaged in deadly border clashes in 2020.
Our trip to Montenegro brought chaos, bonding, belly laughs, and the surprising joy of multi-generational travel.
Jamie, Ewan, and Lachlan Maclean on Saturday completed the journey, arriving in Cairns, Australia, after rowing over 14,000 kilometres nonstop from Peru, becoming the first team to achieve the full crossing from South America to Australia.
It follows last week's ceremony in Pyongyang, where Kim paid tribute to soldiers who returned from combat in Ukraine, an event where the North Korean leader was seen sobbing in tears and placing posthumous state awards on the soldiers' corpses.