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The European Commission's preliminary Digital Services Act finding targets public-by-choice accounts and recommendation systems that can expose teenagers' content too broadly.
Jul 25, 2026
Ajman government employees are working seven-hour summer days without reducing public-service expectations. The initiative offers a useful test of output, wellbeing and heat-aware work design.
Aug 1, 2026
Solar systems are increasingly keeping hospitals, schools, water networks and street lighting operating where centralized energy supply is expensive or unreliable.
Aug 3, 2026
Meloni's cabinet approved a new protest offence, fines of up to 20,000 euros and detention powers for 14 to 17 year olds, but stopped short of giving soldiers policing powers.
Oct 21, 2026
Paramedics, firefighters and volunteer rescuers are dying in numbers that have no modern precedent. In Lebanon alone, 110 emergency workers were killed in a matter of months. This is what they do, and what it costs.
Aug 13, 2026
Germany has formally blamed Russia for an explosive drone found at Leipzig airport in August, and is closing the Russian consulate general in Bonn by 18 September. The target sat beside a Ukrainian cargo aircraft.
Sep 5, 2026
WMO forecasts point to a rapidly strengthening El Niño, raising the odds of disruptive heat, drought and heavy rain. Preparedness now can reduce damage later.
Jul 31, 2026
A cruise missile hit a block of flats in the north on Wednesday and a guided bomb struck two buses in the east on Thursday. Zelenskyy warns the attacks will grow as winter nears.
Oct 9, 2026
Search teams are still working at a bombed school in the Zaporizhzhia region while overnight strikes cut power across Ukraine and left Kyiv without running water for most of a day.
Nov 4, 2026
