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France to the EU: Don’t tell us how to run our police force

‘It’s not up … to the European Commission to take an interest in the way France manages its police force,’ French state secretary for Europe says.

After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogeyman: video games

Violence has erupted across France after the fatal police shooting of a teen. President Macron has, in part, blamed video games, adding him to the list of leaders who have cited the debunked theory.

Large objects seen on roof of Ukraine nuclear reactor increase fears of Russia attack

Satellite images picked up the packages after Zelensky warned Moscow was planning to blow up the plant and blame it on Kyiv

Zelenskyy: Don’t be surprised if Chechen leader marches on Kremlin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that it would not be surprising if someone like the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, or the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, tried to march on and enter the Kremlin.

Nine robots held a press conference and said they could be better leaders than humans

For the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature record

The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

NHL great Hašek demands Russians openly condemn war against Ukraine or be banned from Paris Olympics

Russian and Belarusian athletes must state loud and clear they condemn Russia for the war in Ukraine or be banned from next year's Paris Olympics, hockey gold medalist Dominik Hašek told The Associated Press. Hašek, who won gold with the Czech Republic team at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, said he is certain their presence at the Paris Games would otherwise result in “a huge promotion of the Russian war.” The NHL great has been a prominent and vocal critic of the International Olympic Committee’s recommendation that Russians and Belarusians compete in international competitions as neutral athletes.

Sweden charges Greta Thunberg for blockading oil port

The climate activist blocked a port handling fossil fuels with a group of young activists in June.

Blast at explosives factory in Russia kills at least six and leaves two injured

An explosion occurred at the Promsintez plant, which produces explosives, in the settlement of Chapayevka in Russia’s Samara Oblast on 7 July.

Russia Is Disregarding IAEA Advice to Power Down Ukraine Reactor

Russia is on the edge of civil war, Ukraine spy chief claims

'Russian society is torn into two pieces,' says Major-General Kyrylo Budanov.

UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record

After record breaking days on Monday and Tuesday, unofficial analysis shows the world may have seen its hottest seven days in a row

Japan removes Japanese military's role in WWII Okinawa mass suicides from social studies textbooks - The Mainichi

TOYAMA -- Information on the 1945 Battle of Okinawa has been scaled back in some Japanese textbooks planned to be used from the 2024 school year, leav

Ukrainian forces advanced over one kilometre on Bakhmut front in past 24 hours

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have advanced on the Bakhmut front by more than a kilometre in the past 24 hours.

Ukraine Has Caught Up With Russia’s Tank Numbers, Data Signal

Captured Russian soldier said commanders were high on painkillers and gave 'nonsensical orders' like sending them out under mortar fire

Slava, who was recruited from a Russian prison to fight in Ukraine, said commanders would order their soldiers out under mortar fire while high.

1,200-year-old 'Viking graffiti' is the oldest drawing ever discovered in Iceland

Viking boat graffiti like this record-setting carving are usually "extremely poorly done."

Putin's luxury armored train is fitted with a beauty room, anti-aging machines, and a gym, report says.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been using his luxury train more regularly in an effort to travel as discreetly as possible.

U.S. Is Destroying the Last of Its Once-Vast Chemical Weapons Arsenal

PUEBLO, Colo. — In a sealed room behind a gantlet of armed guards and three rows of high barbed wire at the Army’s Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado, a team of robotic arms was busily disassembling some of the last of the United States’ vast and ghastly stockpile of chemical weapons. In went artillery shells filled with deadly mustard agent that the Army had been storing for more than 70 years. The bright yellow robots pierced, drained and washed each shell, then baked it at 1,500 degrees Fahren