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Tour de France peloton faces famous Tourmalet climb on brutal stage 14 – ‘there’s no easy way up’
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 18, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
EU backs green port infrastructure in Papua New Guinea
Offshore Energy
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July 17, 2025
The European Union (EU) and Papua New Guinea (PNG) have deepened their partnership with the launch of infrastructure projects focused on greening and modernizing Rabaul Port and expanding access to safe water. Illustration purposes only; Courtesy...
Antarctica's oldest ice arrives in the UK as scientists hope to 'unlock the deepest secrets' of climate change
LBC
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18 July 2025, 19:17 A sign indicates that this is the site of the Beyond Epica drilling project. Picture: Alamy Antarctica’s oldest ice has arrived in the UK for testing, which could reveal more about the Earth’s climate. Listen to this article...
Jonathan Cook: Britain’s Repressive Defense of Genocide
Consortium News
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July 18, 2025
The British establishment is creating a climate of fear about protesting in any meaningful way against Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in June . (No. 10 Downing/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) By Jonathan Cook...
Britain and Germany sign “friendship” treaty centred on militarism and war
World Socialist Web Site
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July 17, 2025
German chancellor Friedrich Merz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met in London Thursday to sign a “friendship and bilateral cooperation treaty”. Behind the anodyne words—with Starmer declaring his surprise that this was the first major...
Northern Ireland young gun ready to make most of ‘family environment’ after sealing loan move to League One club
Belfast Telegraph
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July 18, 2025
The 21-year-old midfielder is the third Forest youngster to join the Stags in the summer of 2025 following Joe Gardner and Kyle McAdam. He spent the 2024/25 season on loan at Colchester United, making 32 appearances in League Two. “There seems...
EU Commission Proposes Banning Meat-Like Terms on Plant-Based Labels
Green Queen
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July 17, 2025
5 Mins Read The EU Commission has reignited the plant-based meat labelling debate by proposing a ban on the use of 29 animal-related terms for vegan packaging labels. When the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that no member state can prohibit...
Watch: Tour de France Security Guard TAKES DOWN Anti-Israeli Protester
OutKick - Tennessee
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July 18, 2025
The protester ran onto the race course with an anti-Israel shirt. PublishedJuly 18, 2025 2:09 PM EDT•UpdatedJuly 18, 2025 2:09 PM EDT Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link An anti-Israel protester found out the hard way what happens when you try to...
Albania ranks 8th in Europe for digital services, minister says
Gazeta Tema
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July 18, 2025
Albania is now the eighth-ranked country in Europe and 19th globally for the level of digital services it provides, Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and Business Climate Delina Ibrahimaj said Friday. Speaking at a meeting hosted by Prime...
European hornet spreads north across Finland
Helsinki Times
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July 17, 2025
The European hornet, the largest wasp species on the continent, is expanding its range across Finland, researchers report. Once confined mainly to Southeast Finland, sightings now extend into central and northern regions, including Mikkeli,...
EU Commission throws weight behind Crete-Cyprus power cable
Kathimerini
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Dan Jorgensen, the Danish commissioner for energy and housing at the European Commission, has affirmed that the EU’s executive arm will do everything possible to ensure the implementation of the Crete-Cyprus electricity interconnection project. In...
Kourtney Kardashian slams follower who asked her if she was pregnant after posting Italy vacation pics
The Independent
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July 18, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Reform of the EU Securitisation Framework—Part 1: STS Label Extended to Unfunded Credit Protection
JD Supra - California
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July 18, 2025
In Short The Background: In January 2019, the EU introduced its current regulatory framework for securitisations, seeking to improve transparency, robustness, and market confidence following the global financial crisis. Market participants have...
Paging the NFL: Anti-Israel Protester Disrupts Tour de France, Gets Flattened by Security Guard
Red State
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July 18, 2025
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. The NFL might want to send its scouts over to Europe, because a security guard working the Tour de France bicycle race Wednesday...
Heat wave in Europe kills 1,500 people in 10 days
Gulf Today
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July 18, 2025
Europe is reeling under an unprecedented heatwave, and it has touched extremely high temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius and 46 degrees Celsius in late June and early July. And it has caused an alarming death toll of 1,500 people, many of them aged...
Eiffage to design and build Frontex headquarters in Warsaw, Poland
World Construction Network
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July 18, 2025
Eiffage, through its subsidiary Eiffage Construction, has secured a contract from Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, to design and build its new headquarters in Warsaw, Poland. The project involves constructing a seven-floor...
EC adopts delegated regulation to simplify EU taxonomy reporting and screening criteria
JD Supra - California
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July 18, 2025
The European Commission has adopted a Delegated Regulation amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2178 to simplify reporting requirements for environmentally sustainable activities under the EU Taxonomy Regulation. It also amends Delegated...
Asturias launches Spain's first underground greenhouse
Fresh Plaza
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July 18, 2025
The Government of Asturias has launched a unique project that converts an old mine shaft in Laviana into Spain's first underground greenhouse. The initiative is part of the Agroalnext program, funded by regional resources and European Next...
British scientists seek the climate secrets of ancient Antarctic ice
CGTN
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July 18, 2025
02:57 For over 60 years, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has been working to unlock secrets above and below the ice of the world's most remote continent. In 1985, their scientists discovered thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica, leading...
European Commission takes Malta to court over 'preferential' port worker hiring
Times of Malta
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July 17, 2025
Updated 2.20pm with Transport Ministry reaction The European Commission (EC) has opened legal proceedings against Malta for “preferential” recruitment practises for port jobs, which favour the families of existing workers. In a statement on...