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Booming Chinese shopping app faces Western scrutiny over data security
Temu is rapidly gaining users in the US and Europe, leading China hawks to warn about its risks.
Forget wildfires in Greece and Italy. Enjoy your holiday, say tourism chiefs
Italy may be frying, but the country’s tourism board says visitors ‘will find a climate suitable for the summer season.’
Sex, lies and stolen sunglasses: The 11 most embarrassing political resignations
From watching porn to stealing sandwiches, these are the most humiliating reasons to leave office.
Grain dance: What Poland wants in return for its solidarity with Ukraine
Warsaw insists it will act alone if Brussels fails to extend import restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural products.
Ursula von der Leyen is losing her team
The European Commission president is secretive and controlling. With a year of her term still to run, some of her commissioners have had enough.
This summer is what climate change looks like, scientists say
July’s record temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere driven by climate change, new study finds.
Only dead people donate to the Scottish National Party
How the embattled SNP went from big-donor magnet to a party reliant on gifts from the deceased.
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German center-right leader mulls cooperation with far right at municipal level
CDU’s Friedrich Merz draws immediate criticism, including from his own party, for suggesting potentially ground-breaking shift.
Europe’s economic engine is stalling: Germany deindustrializes
The decline of the Continent’s largest economy will send shudders across the EU’s already polarized political landscape.
Germany blasts China on human rights, but shies away from economic restrictions
Berlin’s long-awaited China strategy speaks of a ‘threat’ by Beijing but is softer than a previous draft.
Washington
Brussels
EU migration deal faces delays after talks snag
EU countries need to finalize the text of the entire deal before the European Parliament can give its go-ahead.
Top Eurocrats’ job applications are just as cringe as yours
Because who wouldn’t want to ‘drive true collaboration and proactively build consensus’?
Who is Maria Arena, the 4th MEP caught up in Qatargate?
Police raided properties linked to the Belgian Socialist MEP on Wednesday, widening the scandal.
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Long wait for justice in one of Britain’s worst health scandals
Patients given contaminated blood by the National Health Service decades ago continue to press for compensation.
UK underestimated Prigozhin’s Wagner Group for years, inquiry finds
Foreign affairs committee says UK failed to understand the mercenary group and focused too narrowly on its activity in Europe.
Less of the ‘green crap’: UK politicians want to take edge off net-zero pain
Push comes after Tories gained a surprise win in outer-London by-election opposing an ultra-low emissions zone.
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The dead and missing along Europe’s migration routes