Slovakia’s Schranz sinks Belgium in huge Euro 2024 upset | UEFA Euro 2024 News

Slovakia’s Schranz sinks Belgium in huge Euro 2024 upset | UEFA Euro 2024 News

Ivan Schranz’s goal in the seventh minute was enough to allow Slovakia to pull off the shock of the tournament so far. Slovakia caused the first major upset at the European Football Championship 2024 as Ivan Schranz fired the underdogs to a 1-0 win against Belgium. Francesco Calzona’s side are…

At least 11 people dead after two shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea | Migration News

At least 11 people dead after two shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea | Migration News

UN agencies say 64 people are missing after shipwrecks off the coast of southern Italy. At least 11 people have died and 64 others are missing after two shipwrecks off southern Italy, according to a German charity, the Italian coast guard and United Nations agencies. The German aid group RESQSHIP,…

Russia’s Putin to visit North Korea for the first time in 24 years | Politics News

Russia’s Putin to visit North Korea for the first time in 24 years | Politics News

Russian president to embark on state visit on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Kremlin says. Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea this week for the first time in 24 years, the two countries say, a rare trip that underscores Moscow’s burgeoning partnership with the nuclear-armed state. North Korean leader…

China launches anti-dumping investigation into EU pork imports | Business and Economy News

China launches anti-dumping investigation into EU pork imports | Business and Economy News

China’s probe into EU pork comes in retaliation to the bloc’s decision last week to add additional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. China has opened an investigation into pork imports from the European Union after the bloc imposed anti-subsidy duties on Chinese-made electric cars. China’s commerce ministry announced the investigation…

Czechia extradites Indian suspect in plot to kill Sikh separatist to US | Crime News

Czechia extradites Indian suspect in plot to kill Sikh separatist to US | Crime News

If convicted, Nikhil Gupta faces up to 20 years in prison. The Czech Republic has extradited an Indian man to the United States who is suspected of involvement in an unsuccessful plot to kill a Sikh separatist. Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blazek announced on Monday that Nikhil Gupta was delivered…

EU states push past opposition to adopt landmark nature restoration law | Environment News

EU states push past opposition to adopt landmark nature restoration law | Environment News

The law includes legally binding targets and obligations for not only preserving, but restoring natural habitats. The European Union countries have defeated opposition to greenlight a landmark nature restoration law that commits member states to revitalise at least a fifth of the bloc’s land and sea by 2030. Twenty of…

Watchdog warns reliance on nuclear weapons rising amid global tension | Nuclear Weapons News

Watchdog warns reliance on nuclear weapons rising amid global tension | Nuclear Weapons News

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute says Russia and the US possess ‘almost 90 percent of all nuclear weapons’. The world’s nine nuclear-armed states have raised their reliance on nuclear weapons, a watchdog has said. A report released by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday said the states…

Russia sets date for closed-door trial of US journalist | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia sets date for closed-door trial of US journalist | Russia-Ukraine war News

Evan Gershkovich was detained in March 2023 for allegedly ‘spying’ on a Russian defence enterprise in Yekaterinburg. Russia will hold a closed-door trial for detained US reporter Evan Gershkovich later this month, a court in the city of Yekaterinburg has announced. The Sverdlovsk Regional Court said on Monday that the…

Audiences suspicious of AI being used to create news, survey shows | Technology News

Audiences suspicious of AI being used to create news, survey shows | Technology News

News consumers most opposed to use of AI for sensitive topics such as politics, report finds. Most news consumers in the United States and the United Kingdom would be uncomfortable with journalism produced mainly by artificial intelligence (AI), a survey has found. Only 23 percent of respondents in the US…