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Can the EU ban smoking? Commission rewrites next generation rules
As part of its Tobacco Control Framework Evaluation, the European Commission reviewed current tobacco laws and found that, while older rules successfully lowered traditional cigarette consumption, they are nowcompletely outdated and failing to stop a massive…
Russian strike kills 10 in northeast Ukraine, regional governor says
A Russian attack on a village in the Kharkiv region of northeast Ukraine killed at least 10 people, the local governor said on Tuesday. The strike comes amid a surge in civilian deaths in the four-and-a-half-year war. Russian forces “carried out a rocket…
Ancient Roman bridge in the Tiber river exposed due to drought
Published on 18/08/2026 – 19:59 GMT+2 The ongoing drought affecting Western Europe has pushed a number of Italian rivers, including the Tiber, down to exceptionally low levels. In the stretch that flows through Rome, the remains of an ancient bridge dating…
Italy demands compensation from Germany over migrant arrivals
Published on 18/08/2026 – 21:08 GMT+2 The dispute between Italy and Germany over the sharing of responsibility for migrants is becoming increasingly heated. The Italian Interior Ministry has now released new figures on private rescue vessels and is demanding…
Film producer Altmayer and Dior PR director Favier killed in car crash
Published on 18/08/2026 – 22:50 GMT+2 French film producer Nicolas Altmayer and his partner, Dior public relations director Mathilde Favier, have died in a car crash in France, according to local authorities. The couple were travelling through the Deux-Sèvres…
Over 2,000 emergency personnel tackle wildfires in Portugal
More than 2,000 emergency personnel and around 20 aircraft are still, on Tuesday, tackling rural fires that have broken out in recent days on Portuguese territory, according to information published on the Civil Protection website. By mid-afternoon, three…
St Pancras station briefly evacuated amid controlled explosion of car
Published on 18/08/2026 – 20:33 GMT+2 St Pancras International station in London was briefly evacuated on Tuesday as a police bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion of an unattended car nearby. In a post on X, Transport for London (TfL) Access said the…
Risky jumps from France’s Marseille corniche rise in popularity
Published on 18/08/2026 – 9:57 GMT+2 In Marseille, plunges into the Mediterranean from the corniche are attracting more and more young people in search of thrills. Despite a ban on jumps of more than three metres in place since 2006, the practice, amplified…
Firefighters pushing to ‘definitively encircle’ Belgium wildfire
Firefighters launched a potentially decisive push to encircle Belgium’s largest wildfire in a century on Tuesday, despite wind and rain hampering air support operations over the High Fens nature reserve. The blaze charring the vast expanse of boggy peatlands…
FIFA confirms COO Kevin Lamour has left after criticising Infantino
Published on 18/08/2026 – 11:12 GMT+2•Updated 11:17 FIFA’s chief operating officer Kevin Lamour has left his role less than three weeks after publicly attacking Gianni Infantino’s plan to bring private investors into world football’s biggest competitions…