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Killer virus spreading across Europe 'highly likely' to reach UK
Cornwall Live
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July 4, 2025
New instances of a lethal virus have been identified in holiday destinations popular with British tourists, and experts have warned it could reach the UK. The virus has been labelled as the current most significant threat to public health,...
New UK border security measures to affect travellers flying from Greece and Italy
Plymouth Herald
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July 4, 2025
A visa update for Europe has been issued by the Foreign Office as part of a new crackdown on border security. Countries affected by the change include popular holiday destinations for Brits such as Greece and Italy. On the social media platform X,...
UK visa verification tightened for flights from Greece and Italy, Foreign Office confirms
Liverpool Echo
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July 4, 2025
A visa update for Europe has been issued by the Foreign Office as part of a new crackdown on border security. Countries affected by the change include popular holiday destinations for Brits such as Greece and Italy. On the social media platform X,...
PM lauds Cabinet members for advancing govt’s priorities
The Peninsula
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July 4, 2025
Doha, Qatar: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani has expressed his deep appreciation to members of the Council of Ministers for their tireless efforts and valuable contributions in...
Brexit was the right call. It’s our leaders who messed it up
The Conservative Woman
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July 4, 2025
YES, of course Brexit was the right decision. And that’s exactly what I said on BBC Politics Live last week when a lot of jaws in the studio hit the floor. After the ninth anniversary of the British people’s decision to leave the European Union, I...
Colombian Navy captures unmanned narco submarine in Caribbean Sea
Naval news
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July 3, 2025
On July 2, 2025, the Colombian Navy announced the seizure of an autonomous underwater vehicle / unmanned narco submarine as part of a press release regarding the Orion Multinational Strategy, a global initiative led by Colombia to combat drug...
BALKAN BLOG: Western Balkans military build-up continues as the world looks elsewhere
BNE Intellinews
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As the world’s attention remains focused on the wars in Ukraine and, more recently, the Middle East, several countries in the Western Balkans are ramping up their military capacities. This build-up is not a sudden reaction but part of a...
Elias: Believe what Trump says he plans in California, other blue states
The Mercury News - California
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July 4, 2025
Even now, six months into President Trump’s second term, there’s a tendency to disregard his sometimes fiery rhetoric as mere big talk. Americans ought to know better by now. Iranians certainly do after Trump sent bunker-buster bombs into their...
Symptoms of killer virus spreading across Europe - 'highly likely' to reach UK
The Mirror
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July 4, 2025
New cases of a killer virus have been detected in holiday hotspots loved by British tourists - and experts have warned it could reach the UK. It’s been described as the current biggest threat to public health, after breaking out in Iraq and...
Ryanair delays move to 100pc paperless boarding passes - here’s what happens if your phone dies
Irish Independent
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Ryanair’s move to ‘100pc paperless boarding passes’ will now start with the less busy winter schedule The move, first announced last autumn, had been planned for May, but will now coincide with the rollout of its less busy winter schedule. It...
Weapons, warrants, and whistle protests: the tensions shaping Kosovo’s election season
EurActiv
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July 2, 2025
A high-profile police raid on properties linked to a rising Kosovo Serb political figure has stirred fresh controversy weeks ahead of local elections, with authorities citing a cache of heavy weapons and the targeted party denouncing the move as...
"We must build a different future while we can": collective statement calls for urgent change of course
Statewatch
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Home / News / 2025 / June / "We must build a different future while we can": collective statement calls for urgent change of course Topic Country/Region 20 June 2025 A declaration coordinated by the Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy ties...
Algorithmic bias: Platform capitalism, data and reality
Bianet
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July 1, 2025
According to data from Duke University Reporters' Lab, there are 443 platforms actively engaged in fact-checking worldwide (Duke Reporters' Lab, 2025). These organizations play an important role in combating disinformation; however, their...
A Year of Keir: Month-by-month, the changing face of PM Starmer
LBC
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4 July 2025, 07:24 | Updated: 4 July 2025, 08:10 Picture: Getty Images By Lucy Harvey, Danielle de Wolfe and Alice Padgett As Sir Keir Starmer rounds off his first turbulent year in power today, LBC takes a look at the changing face of the Prime...
The IDM Film Commission Südtirol funds 10 new European projects
Cineuropa
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03/07/2025 - The lucky movies include Nancy Camaldo’s mystery horror Wolf and documentary-maker Francesca Scalisi’s first fiction feature, Me, You, and Gods Director Francesca Scalisi, whose project Me, You, and Gods has been selected (© Mark...
NATO’s Hallucinations
CounterPunch
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July 3, 2025
NATO Summit 2025, dinner. Photograph Source: Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken – CC BY-SA 4.0 By the end of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in The Hague in June 2025, it became clear that everything was about...
The EU’s Moldova dilemma
EurActiv
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July 4, 2025
Moldova wants to leapfrog Ukraine on its path to EU membership, giving Brussels a dilemma on how to reward Chișinău’s reform drive without alienating Kyiv. Moldova will host its first-ever summit with the EU on Friday – a symbolic milestone that...
From Old Crossroads to the World Stage: 14-year-old Imkhitha Joya's chess journey
Weekend Argus
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July 3, 2025
At just 14-years old, Imkhitha Joya from Old Crossroads, Nyanga, is quietly redefining what’s possible for young South African girls with big dreams and the discipline to match. A rising star on the national chess circuit, Imkhitha has earned top...
Criminal Threat Convergence Must Be Elevated as a National Security Urgency
Small Wars Journal
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June 25, 2025
We must move with greater urgency to confront criminal threat convergence. The cartels and some TCOs in Latin America have greater power and political influence through market diversification, networked-alliances, and coercive aggression in the...
Breach Roundup: UK NHS Links Patient Death to Ransomware Attack
Bank Information Security - New Jersey
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Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Also, O Canada, Oh Brother and More Probable Chinese Hacking Anviksha More (AnvikshaMore) • June 26, 2025 Image: Shutterstock/ISMG Every week, Information Security...