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Bullets flew on Tuesday as EU monitors patrolled the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, in a sign the simmering conflict could escalate at any time.

Climate change has increased the severity and frequency of heatwaves, droughts, floods, and wildfires. Yet despite this, the number of firefighters has been cut in 10 EU countries in recent years.

Russian artists are fleeing their home country since the Ukraine invasion — but rough times in exile could lead to a renaissance after the war.

What is lost in the heated debate over an all-Ukrainian no-fly zone is that some non-Ukrainian national security interests are on Ukraine's territory.

Poland is to show off its Western defence equipment in a massive military parade, as its ruling party gears up for re-election.

Tunisia possesses both the necessary ingredients and the capacity to invigorate its economy to become a 'Mediterranean tiger'. Yet, this potential has remained largely untapped since the dawn of its 2011 uprising.

A Russian warship fired warning shots at a Palau-flagged merchant ship in the south-western Black Sea on Sunday — just weeks after Russia pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal.

What has really changed on the ground in Morocco, in the year since the EU cooperation and funding agreement? And what are the consequences these have had in people risking their lives to reach Europe?

Europe is now looking whether cell-based meat should be on the menu.

With summer in full swing, we asked our journalists, editors and columnist to share their favourite non-fiction books they read this year. If you're still looking for something to read, read on.

Poland's ruling Law and Justice party has launched its re-election campaign by sending 10,000 soldiers to the Belarus border and claiming the EU will stop Polish people from picking mushrooms.

Let's focus for a moment on technology. Specifically, what might be the most important environmental technology ever developed: precision fermentation.

Drivers of this plant-based shift tend to be young, liberal, educated, female, city-dwelling, and environmentally-conscious, but not necessarily vegan or vegetarian.

Some 41 people drowned en route to Italy, while 27 others died of heat-related complications in the Libyan desert this week.

EUobserver spoke to Marie Asano, head of the food and nutrition team at the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, an independent 'dark green' venture capital fund — focused on innovative companies that aim to bring bio-based foods to the general public.

"In China, they're building skyscrapers of pigs," says Greenpeace. And in Brussels, the Big Meat lobby is spending millions to stop so-called 'vegan radicals' from shaping EU policy.

Taiwan's decision to build a microchip factory in Germany will deepen EU political ties, despite Chinese opposition, Taipei has said.

EIT Food sees alternative proteins, or 'protein diversification', as CEO Andy Zynga prefers to call it, as a promising avenue to address some of the shortcomings of our current food systems.

Antarctic Krill oil, protein extract from pig kidneys, magnolia bark extract and the mung bean. All these and many others are on a list of approved 'novel foods' for sale on the European market.

Europe-Africa flight paths are being redrawn, as the Niger putsch threatens to escalate into a regional-scale war.