President al-Sharaa Reaffirms Syria’s Unity says No Place for Separatist Agendas following Unrest in Sweida Province

On 19 July 2025, Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa declared that Syria will not serve as a platform for separatist projects, responding to escalating tensions in the southern Sweida province, home to the country’s Druze minority. 🗣️ Presidential Statement In a televised address, al-Sharaa emphasized: 🤝 Regional and International Support 🔍 Context: Sweida Unrest Recent clashes […]

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U.S. to Destroy 500 Metric Tons of Emergency USAID Food Aid Due to Expiration and Logistics Failures

On July 18, 2025, the U.S. State Department confirmed plans to destroy nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food aid, specifically high-energy biscuits originally intended for famine-stricken regions. The rations, valued at $800,000 and funded by U.S. taxpayers, had been stored in a Dubai warehouse since late 2023 and are now set to be incinerated […]

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What Trump’s decision to send more weapons to Ukraine will mean for the war

At face value, Donald Trump’s announcement about his plans on Russia and Ukraine look like a major policy change. Speaking from the Oval Office on July 14, where he had been meeting with Nato secretary general Mark Rutte, the US president said he would send “top-of-the-line-weapons” to help Kyiv and – unless a ceasefire deal […]

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Minimising the risks children and young people face online

  The online world is a place of endless possibilities, where people can expand their learning, creativity and communication. It is also a place with many risks, particularly for children and young people. To minimise these risks, the Commission has presented guidelines on the protection of minors, as well as a prototype of an age-verification […]

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Family drugs gang sentenced for £5 million cocaine smuggling operation at Birmingham Airport

A woman from Bradford who enlisted her own children into a sophisticated £5 million pound cocaine smuggling operation was jailed for more than 13 years today at Birmingham Crown Court. Farzana Kauser, 54, headed up the Bradford-based gang, five of which were her own children, including two who were teenagers at the time of the […]

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2025’s first summer heatwave was early, and deadly, for all of Western Europe

The first heatwave of the summer hit Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Germany early in the year, breaking June temperature records in many areas. It was Western Europe’s warmest June since records began, and Spain’s warmest since it began recording temperature anomalies in 1961. Temperatures soared past 40ºC in the last week of the month […]

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Tánaiste Welcomes Appointment of Irish Scientist to UN Panel on Nuclear War Effects

On 18 July 2025, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Harris TD welcomed the appointment of Dr. Neil Rowan to the newly established United Nations Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War. Dr. Rowan, a professor at the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, is one of 21 global experts […]

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Announcement of Visa Restrictions on Brazilian Judicial Officials and their Immediate Family Members

President Trump made clear that his administration will hold accountable foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected expression in the United States.  Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes’s political witch hunt against Jair Bolsonaro created a persecution and censorship complex so sweeping that it not only violates basic rights of Brazilians, […]

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Justice Department Publishes Proposed Rule to Grant Relief to Certain Individuals Precluded from Possessing Firearms | US Office of Public Affairs

WASHINGTON — President Trump directed the Department of Justice to address the ongoing infringements of the Second Amendment rights of US citizens—all of them. Federal law disables the firearms rights of many citizens who have been convicted of crimes without regard to whether they actually pose a threat of violence. But federal law also empowers […]

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