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In a week-long experiment, the German discount supermarket chain Penny is charging its customers "real prices" for food. These factor in the environmental costs in production. Nine products will be affected, making them for the most part twice as expensive as before. Commentators discuss how much sense it makes to suddenly charge six euros instead of three for sausages.

Thousands of people across Bulgaria have protested against violence against women. The demonstrations were triggered by a brutal attack on an 18-year-old girl and the mild sentence handed down to her aggressor. Although she had been cruelly abused by her ex-partner, a court classified the act as "slight bodily harm" and released the perpetrator.

The German government has slashed the draft 2024 government budget for digitisation to three million, down from €377m last year.

The Council imposed sanctions on 38 individuals and 3 entities in Belarus. It also extended export bans to firearms, aviation and space industry.

The EU issued a statement on the situation of the Yazidi community in Iraq.

Niger's junta revoked a raft of military cooperation agreements with France on Thursday (3 August) - a decision that could drastically reshape a fight against Islamist insurgents in the region after the ouster of President Mohamed Bazoum last week.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday (3 August) decried "revolting" practices exposed during an audit of Ukraine's military recruitment centres and pledged to fix the system by placing in charge people who understood the meaning of war.