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Czech border controls blocking migrants' route to Germany frustrate Slovakia

Slovakia on Thursday stepped up pressure on the Czech Republic to ease border controls in place for weeks to combat an increase in the number of migrants, mostly from Syria, who are heading to Germany and Western Europe.

Reuters

Prior to Industrial Revolution, global living standards were very low, says economic historian Jared Rubin

Britain industrialised first, and several other nations in Western Europe and North America followed soon thereafter, says Jared Rubin

The Hindu

In Ukraine, this volunteer sniper embodies the embattled nation’s military

He’d moved to Western Europe to work as an engineer but returned after Russia invaded and soon was being trained. “I don’t like to kill people. It’s not something you want to do. But it’s something you have to do.”

Chicago Sun-Times

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Volunteer sniper embodies Ukraine’s versatile military

Andriy scrambled back to Ukraine at the start of Russia's war after moving to Western Europe to work as an engineer

The Independent UK

UPDATE: European firefighters come to France's assistance as 'monster' wildfire rages out of control

Wildfires continue to rage in south-western France this Thursday, with dozens of houses destroyed, over 6,800 hectares of land scortched, forcing the evacuation of at least 10,000 people. Firefighters from across Europe have come to France's assistance as the massive blaze in the wine-growing Gironde region continues to burn out…

Radio France Internationale

Republicans are embracing one of the world’s worst leaders

Despite the detestable recent comments of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said “We do not want to become peoples(sic) of mixed-race” or join in Western Europe’s “mixed-race world,” CPAC will all too happily host him.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘We’ve lost everything’: Tourists evacuated in France’s Gironde as wildfires rage

As a heatwave scorches Western Europe, some 38,500 people have been evacuated away from forest fires raging in France’s southwestern Gironde region. No deaths have been reported as of Wednesday, but holidaymakers at campsites near the Dune du Pilat – Europe’s tallest sand dune, perched amid a forest on the…

France 24

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The UK just hit 40℃ for the first time. It's a stark reminder of the deadly heat awaiting Australia

A severe heatwave in Western Europe is shattering temperature records – including in the United Kingdom, where temperatures exceeded 40℃ on Tuesday for the first time on record.

The Conversation

A heatwave ‘hotspot’: Western Europe grapples with record heat, raging fires

The punishing heatwave that has triggered deadly wildfires across southwest Europe is poised to break temperature records in France and the United Kingdom early this week, confirming scientists’ warnings that Western Europe has become a heatwave “hot spot”.

France 24

Survivor of 1942 Jewish roundup tells her story 'for those who didn't come back'

On 16 and 17 July, 1942, French police snatched close to 13,000 Jewish men, women and children from their homes in Paris in what was the largest operation of its kind in Western Europe. Most were taken to the Winter Velodrome before being sent to the death camps. Arlette Testyler,…

Radio France Internationale

Firefighters battle wildfires from Portugal to France

Firefighters from Portugal and Spain to southern France are battling a spate of wildfires scorching Western Europe amid an unusual heat wave that authorities link to climate change

The Independent UK

Holocaust: Meeting the last witnesses to the Vél d'Hiv roundup, 80 years on

Over two days in the summer of 1942, French police carried out Western Europe’s largest wartime roundup of Jews, acting on orders from occupying German forces and their French allies in the Vichy Regime.

France 24

Heat domes spike in Europe as climate change helps shift weather patterns

The persistent heat domes are becoming far more common than similar events elsewhere in the world.

Axios

Shredded trees, dead dolphins and wildfires — how Russia's invasion is hurting nature

The environmental impacts from Russia's invasion of Ukraine could be felt far longer than the war itself.

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Russian journalist sells Nobel Prize for over 100m dollars to help Ukraine

Dmitry Muratov left Russia for Western Europe on Thursday to begin his trip to New York City, where the auction took place

The Independent UK

Hot weekend for Europe, officials warn of extreme fire risk

People are flocking to parks and pools across Western Europe for a bit of respite from an early heat wave that saw the mercury rise above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in France and Spain

WEKU

Europe wilts under early heat wave from Med to North Sea

A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western Europe its first heat wave of the summer.

Reuters

Savannah says Portugal lithium mine delayed by 'political process'

Savannah Resources said on Wednesday it had little control over what it described as the political process which is delaying its extraction plans for what could become western Europe's largest lithium mine in northern Portugal.

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Benzinga

Alibaba's Overseas Growth Push Gets Critical To Beat Domestic Slowdown

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's (NYSE:BABA) hunt for overseas growth is critical to offset sluggish demand at home by expanding in Europe through its Southeast Asian offshoot, Lazada, Reuters reports. Lazada plans to target local European vendors, while Alibaba's existing global platform, AliExpress, will continue to focus mainly on cross-border sales from China. However, the…

Benzinga

Interactive Brokers' Carbon Offsets Feature To Be Available On Firm's IMPACT App

Interactive Brokers Group Inc (NASDAQ: IBKR) announced the launch of Carbon Offsets to its clients in Western Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine Cuts Russia Gas at 1 Hub, Underlining Risk to Supply

Ukraine shut down a pipeline Wednesday that carries Russian natural gas to homes and industries in Western Europe, while a Kremlin-installed official in a southern region seized by Russian troops said the area will ask Moscow to annex it. The talk of annexation in Kherson - and Russia's apparent willingness…

Daily Mirror

Britain could become fattest nation in Europe due to takeaways addiction, report says

The World Health Organisation’s latest report on obesity in the continent shows 64% of UK adults are overweight, including 28% who are obese. It puts Britain as the fattest nation in Western Europe

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gucci in Focus as China Lockdowns Weigh on Kering Q1 Sales

Disruptions from COVID-19 lockdowns in China cast a cloud on forecast-beating first-quarter sales from Gucci owner Kering on Thursday, even as the group pointed to sustained demand from the United States and Western Europe for its high-end fashion and leather goods labels. Group sales for the three months ending in…

Chicago Tribune

China’s surge proves the folly of trying to achieve ‘zero-COVID-19′

From the outset, mystery has shrouded the COVID-19 pandemic in China. The origin of the virus remains unknown, important Chinese journalists and key scientists have been muted, and case and death totals reported by China’s government have been unbelievably low — the United States and most of Western Europe have…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Biden Ending Europe Trip with Unity Message that Echoes Past

Twenty-five years ago, Joe Biden visited Warsaw, Poland, with a warning: Even though the Soviet Union had collapsed, some of NATO’s original members weren’t doing enough to ensure the alliance’s collective defense. “Now it is time for the people of Western Europe to invest in the security of their continent…

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