(AFP) – A 4.2-magnitude earthquake shook Italy’s Campi Flegrei region west of Naples in the early hours Wednesday, in the biggest tremor in the area for 40 years, according to experts. The quake scared residents but caused no injuries or damage,…
By Valérie LerouxAgence France-Presse (AFP) – King Charles III on Wednesday began his first state visit to France as monarch, a rescheduled trip aimed at showing the fundamentals of the cross-Channel alliance remain strong despite a litany of political tensions after…
(AFP) – A European Union regulator fined Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok 345 million euros over child data breaches on Friday. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said in a statement that it has handed down the “administrative fine”, which is equivalent to…
(AFP) – A Canadian man accused of slamming his pick-up truck into a Muslim family, killing four people in an alleged terrorist attack, pleaded not guilty to murder on Tuesday. Nathaniel Veltman, 20 at the time of his arrest, appeared in…
(AFP) – A forest blaze in Greece is “the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU” and the bloc is mobilising nearly half its firefighting air wing to tackle it, a European Commission spokesman said Tuesday. Firefighters have been battling the…
(AFP) – Greek firefighters struggled Friday to contain scores of wildfires stretching nationwide, as the week’s death toll from the raging blazes rose to 21. The Greek fire brigade on Friday said they had found the body of a man in the…
(AFP) – France’s government said Thursday it would hold a crisis meeting to tackle a heatwave that could reach its high point at the weekend, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne’s office told AFP Thursday. Senior civil servants from Borne’s office as well…
(AFP) – Activists from Greenpeace were arrested Thursday after scaling UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s constituency home in northern England and covering it with black fabric to protest his fossil fuel policy. Sunak this week approved hundreds of new oil…
By Alexandria SageAgence France-Presse (AFP) – Europe braced for record-smashing heat Tuesday as withering heatwaves across the globe showed no signs of easing, and ongoing wildfires in Greece and the Canary Islands threatened homes while worsening air quality. Across vast swathes…
(AFP) – US tech titan Mark Zuckerberg has plunged into a high-stakes game of brinkmanship with the European Union by withholding his new Threads app from users in Europe, but analysts say he will struggle to win the fight. Threads,…
