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Czech police are investigating groups of mostly young people hunting for paedophiles on the internet to blackmail them or beat them up, a spokesman said Friday (9 August).

Italy is the largest beneficiary of the Next Generation EU, but while the Italian government boasts the success of being the first to have obtained the payment of the fifth instalment of the NGEU and to have applied for the sixth, the problem of spending the funds remains to be solved.

There is so far "no objective element" to confirm that former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont managed to flee Spain for Belgium after his controversial visit to Barcelona on Thursday (8 August), according to Catalan police chief Eduard Sallent.

Israel withdrew the accreditation of eight Norwegian diplomats working at Norway's mission to the Palestinian Authority on Thursday (9 August), in response to which Norway said it hopes to seek dialogue and improve relations.

United Nations member states approved its first-ever treaty aimed at combating cybercrime, a controversial text opposed by digital rights organisations and Big Tech companies.

Ukraine’s latest foray into Russian territory may provide a much-needed boost to Ukrainian morale, but is unlikely to last long or change the course of the war, according to defence analyst.

The French agriculture ministry sharply lowered its estimate of the country's 2024 soft wheat output, now expected 25% below last year's volume, making it one of the worst harvests of these past 40 years in the EU's largest grain grower.

Beijing said on Friday (9 August) it had filed an appeal with the World Trade Organization over the European Union’s imposition, effective on 5 July, of provisional tariffs of up to 38% on imports of electric vehicles from China.

The Mexican president on Thursday (8 August) rejected a request from Ukraine's government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader defies an international arrest warrant and attends the inauguration of Mexico's next president in October.

Countries across eastern Europe struggle to sign up new soldiers and keep experienced ones in a region where Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia all share a border with Ukraine.

Israel kept up its bombardment of Gaza Thursday (8 August), killing more than 18 people in strikes on two schools, the emergency services said, as Iran accused it of wanting to spread war in the Middle East.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday (8 August) took tensions with social media platform X and its owner Elon Musk to new heights, banning the platform in the South American country for 10 days amid furore over a disputed presidential election.

Russian forces were battling Ukrainian troops for a third day on Thursday (8 August) after they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region, an audacious attack on the world's biggest nuclear power that has forced Moscow to call in reserves.

Apple on Thursday (8 August) changed its policy in the European Union to allow developers to communicate with their customers outside its App Store after the commission charged the iPhone maker in June for breaching the bloc's tech rules.

An ongoing European Commission investigation into social media platform X could be influenced by the platform's handling of  content related to riots in the UK, a spokesperson said on Friday (9 August).

Nagasaki's mayor said he would stick to a decision to exclude Israel's ambassador from this year's event to mark the city's atomic bombing, though senior diplomats of the US and other G7 nations said the snub would keep them away.

Social media giant X has suspended the processing of some personal data from EU users' public posts to train AI models, two days after the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) launched court proceedings over the practice.

Novo Nordisk is on track to make a significant contribution to Denmark's GDP through its obesity and diabetes treatments, despite supply constraints, according to the company's financial report for the first half of 2024.

The UK's main competition watchdog has formally opened an investigation into the merger between Amazon and AI company Anthropic, a statement released on Thursday (8 August) reads.

The foiled jihadist terrorist plot targeting Taylor Swift‘s concerts in Vienna highlights an increasing terrorist threat coming from radicalised European teenagers, which experts blame on social media.