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Estonia has repelled "the most extensive cyber attacks since 2007", it said on Thursday, shortly after removing Soviet monuments in a region with an ethnic Russian majority.

Access to monkeypox vaccines in low- and middle-income countries is a relevant concern, said the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) assistant director-general of Access to Medicines and Health Products, Mariângela Simão on Wednesday (17 August).

Algeria is one of the major suppliers of natural gas to Europe. However, it is not the ultimate solution to Europe's gas needs because of its own upstream constraints, non-aligned stance, and complex and opaque decision-making, writes Robin Mills.

The European Parliament will cooperate with Greek authorities to investigate "intolerable and inexcusable" state spying on a Greek EU lawmaker, the spokesman for the head of the chamber said of the bloc's latest espionage scandal.

Bulgarian MEP Radan Kanev (EPP) called on Wednesday (17 August) for the European Commission to issue a clear recommendation to EU member states to stop all procedures for extradition of Russian citizens from the EU to Russia.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced disgust on Wednesday (17 August) at remarks by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the German leader said diminished the importance of the Holocaust, while Israel accused Abbas of telling a "monstrous lie".

Around a thousand Hungarians protested for the second time in less than a week against a loosening of logging regulations by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government amid increased demand for firewood due to surging gas and electricity prices.

Ukrainian forces said on 18 August they had beaten back a Russian attack in the region of Kherson, while shelling by Kremlin forces in Kharkiv killed 7 people as the war grinds on with no let up in fighting.

The Czech government will hand out state aid to ensure people do not spend more than 30% of their income on housing including energy amid soaring gas and electricity prices, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Wednesday (17 August).

When Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi chose to visit Taiwan in disregard of China’s protest, China was compelled to take countermeasures to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity, writes Wang Hongjian. Wang Hongjian is Chargé d’Affaires...

NATO will increase its peacekeeping force in Kosovo if there is an escalation of tensions with neighbouring Serbia, the alliance's chief said on Wednesday (17 August), on the eve of EU-facilitated talks between the estranged western Balkan neighbours.

Recent mass fish deaths in the River Oder have taken a new turn following accusations that the Polish authorities had failed to notify their German counterparts in accordance with an EU directive, making it a matter for Brussels.

The German liberal party, FDP, no longer opposes an animal welfare levy on meat products, a new position paper unanimously welcomed by the Green coalition partner and stakeholders revealed.

The UK on Wednesday (17 August) launched dispute proceedings against the EU over the long running stalemate that has kept UK universities and researchers shut out of the €95.5 billion Horizon Europe research programme two years after agreeing participation as part of the Brexit agreement. 

Forest fires supercharged by climate change are burning twice as much global tree cover as 20 years ago, according to data Wednesday (17 August) showing the equivalent of 16 football pitches are now lost every minute.

The EU’s proposed Forest Monitoring Law is just one of a raft of measures that could help avert catastrophic forest fires, writes professor Sten B. Nilsson.

The German government will provide lower subsidy rates for measures undertaken to reduce the energy use of buildings, like changing windows or installing a heat pump, as of Monday (15 August).

Norway will have to phase out some of its old oil and gas fields prematurely to achieve its 2030 climate goals unless it can use carbon-free power on more offshore platforms to cut their emissions, the country's climate minister said.

The Russian mission to the United Nations in Geneva said Western states "know all too well that it's impossible to isolate Russia since it's a global power."

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday (16 August) called for systematic punitive measures against Russian oligarchs supporting Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his military operation in Ukraine.