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Parents in Europe push for limited access to social networks
Baltic News Network
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July 7, 2025
It is expected that it will soon be more difficult for European teenagers to access social media content, and the European Union institutions are considering new regulations that would restrict the use of social media by those under 15. Growing...
Flanking tactics
Business World
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July 9, 2025
Don’t look now, but if we’re not careful, we could find ourselves legally outflanked over the West Philippine Sea. In a move widely reported abroad on May 30 but which merited just minor, bottom-page treatment in the “World” pages of two local...
Closing NATO’s Indo-Pacific Gap
Foreign Policy
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The much-anticipated NATO summit in The Hague in late June accomplished its core objectives: securing a 5 percent defense pledge, managing U.S. President Donald Trump, and reaffirming a commitment to collective security. But the summit also drew...
European Cinema Giant Vue Launches Epic, a New Premium Large Format Experience Going Up Against Imax
Variety
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July 9, 2025
Vue, the largest privately owned cinema operator in Europe, is making a major push into the premium large format (PLF) space with the launch of a new experience it has branded “Epic.” The Epic format features the new HDR by Barco laser projection...
Experts dismiss NATO chief's claim that WW3 could start
Daily Mail
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July 7, 2025
Leading experts have dismissed NATO chief Mark Rutte's claim that World War III could begin with a simultaneous invasion of Taiwan by China and an assault on NATO 's eastern flank by Russia. In a chilling vision laid out to the New York Times this...
UK lags behind Kosovo and Kazakhstan in global women’s health table
The Times
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The UK has dropped down a worldwide women’s health league for the fourth consecutive year, as countries such as Lithuania, Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia perform better. Experts described the change as “alarming” and “unacceptable”, as it was also...
Britain and France Rekindle Nuclear Alliance to Reassure a Fractured Europe
EUToday
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July 10, 2025
14In a quiet but momentous move, Britain and France have reaffirmed their status as Europe’s nuclear backbone, unveiling a new bilateral pact to coordinate their nuclear deterrents. At a time of mounting anxiety over NATO’s cohesion and America’s...
Finnish MPs approve withdrawal from anti-mine treaty
Space War
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Finnish MPs approve withdrawal from anti-mine treaty by AFP Staff Writers Helsinki (AFP) June 19, 2025 Finnish lawmakers on Thursday voted to leave a treaty banning anti-personnel mines, which four other countries in the region also plan to...
Meet F1 Winner, Nico Hulkenberg's Wife, Egle Ruskyte, Fashion Designer, Net Worth of USD 5 Million
Bollywood Shaadis
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July 7, 2025
Nico Hulkenberg, also known as Nicolas, is a German racing driver who has competed in Formula One for Sauber. The racer hails from Emmerich am Rhein, where he started competitive kart racing at the young age of 10. His love for car racing was...
UK arson attack trial reveals how Russia-linked operatives recruited ‘gig’ workers for terrorism
CNN
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July 8, 2025
London CNN — Dylan Earl said he needed a “fresh start” in life. Unsatisfied by his prospects in his dreary English town, he decided to orchestrate a terrorist attack in London on behalf of a Russian mercenary group. If he’d had things his way, the...
Are we free if our places of worship are not?
Eureka Street
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July 8, 2025
As I scrolled the news headlines on my phone, I suddenly stopped and froze: there had been an attempted firebombing of the East Melbourne Synagogue. The wooden door reinforced with steel was damaged and the 20 people, including children,...
WhiteBIT Review 2025: Features, Fees, Pros & Cons
NFT Evening
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July 8, 2025
WhiteBIT has recently emerged as a modern-day innovative trading platform serving cryptocurrency traders in the mainstream market. Apart from simplifying the trading process, the platform has added value by introducing additional concepts, such as...
250-seat Italian restaurant LaBocca opens in downtown Tallinn at a cost of 1.3 million euros
The Baltic Times
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The Italian restaurant LaBocca opened its doors in the Golden Gate building in Tallinn’s Rotermann district on Friday. A total of 1.3 million euros has been invested in the new 250-seat eatery and its state-of-the-art technology by the...
The EU Sees Early Successes in Using Foreign Subsidy Regulation Against Chinese Companies
China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE)
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July 10, 2025
This article was originally published by MERICS and is republished here with the permission of the author. The article is part of an ongoing collaboration between MERICS and CHOICE. Beijing’s concerns about the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation...
Taylor Swift Doesn’t Need Me
Reykjavik Grapevine
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July 9, 2025
Don’t surrender to mediocrity I recently turned 40. The days are long, and I feel good. In fact, I’ve always been happy, and I’ve never felt like I was lacking anything. If I’ve ever lacked something, it might be pain. Sadness. Around the age of...
NATO’s Eastward Expansion and the Supposed Betrayal of Russia
Geopolitical Monitor
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July 7, 2025
One of the issues that is frequently raised among both scholars and members of the general public, for the most part with the aim of at least partially exonerating Russia when it comes to its actions directed against Ukraine since 2014, concerns...
Finance Round-up, UK and Spain, July 9
Euro Weekly News
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July 9, 2025
Finance news. Credit: Pavel Danilyuk, Pexels UK climate finance FOREIGN Secretary David Lammy announced £12 million in disaster risk funding to help vulnerable nations respond faster to climate shocks (GOV.UK). The move, backed by UK investors,...
Robinhood’s OpenAI, SpaceX private equity tokens face EU scrutiny
Coin Telegraph
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July 7, 2025
Robinhood’s stock token offerings are under regulatory scrutiny in the European Union after OpenAI warned investors that the digital brokerage’s so-called OpenAI tokens do not represent any equity stake in the company. OpenAI’s warning prompted an...
European Central Bank points out XRP Ledger as important facilitator in next gen financing tool
Cryptopolitan
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June 25, 2025
The European Central Bank (ECB) has identified XRP Ledger as the underlying blockchain network for the Axiology distributed ledger technology (DLT) system. Crypto analyst Diep Sahn first noticed this in the ECB Eurosystem report on using emerging...
If the EU wants peace, it needs to prepare for war
New Eastern Europe
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July 7, 2025
An interview with Andrius Kubilius, the European Union’s Commissioner for Defence and Space. Interviewers: Joanna Maria Stolarek and Adam Reichardt July 7, 2025 - Adam Reichardt Andrius Kubilius Joanna Maria Stolarek - Hot TopicsIssue 4...