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Months of protests in Serbia reached a new intensity Wednesday night as riot police intervened to separate rival demonstrations of anti-government protesters and supporters of President Aleksandar Vucic. The president once again accused unnamed foreign powers of orchestrating the protests, which first began after the deadly collapse of a subway...

Spain on Thursday mourned its third wildfire death this week and Greece began beating back a blaze threatening its third-largest city Patras as an unrelenting heatwave stoked tinderbox conditions in southern Europe. The extreme summer heat, which scientists say human-driven climate change is lengthening and intensifying, has fuelled blazes and...

Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms. The prolonged Nordic heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows “no country is safe from climate change”, scientists say. Norway, Sweden and Finland have historically cool climates but were hit by...

Former minister says Tories are ignoring heartland voters and risk losing ground to Reform in next election. The Conservatives are “not close to recognising” how badly they are positioned for the next election, the former cabinet minister David Gauke has said. Gauke, a former justice secretary who also worked in...

Russian hackers took control of a Norwegian dam this year, opening a floodgate and allowing water to flow unnoticed for four hours, Norway’s intelligence service has said. The admission, by the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), marks the first time that Oslo has formally attributed the cyber-attack in April on...

Seven children reach shore as dozens of people intercepted on risky route, which authorities say is now used more often About 100 people, including several children, risked their lives by trying to swim from Morocco into Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta early on Saturday morning, as the territory’s authorities...

Duke of Sussex ‘absolutely committed’ to supporting children and young people in Lesotho and Botswana Prince Harry is considering establishing a new charity after a dispute that led to him leaving Sentebale, a spokesperson has said. It comes after the Duke of Sussex was criticised by the Charity Commission for...

“These are certainly the most difficult 24 hours of the firefighting season,” declared the president of the Union of Fire Officers. Greece has called on the EU civil protection mechanism to secure four additional water-bombing aircraft. Greece was battling around twenty wildfires on Wednesday, August 13, facing what fire service...

The Arla cooperative says five in six farmers receive very few or zero applications for job vacancies. Dairy farmers have warned that a long-running shortage of workers, exacerbated by Brexit and the pandemic, has put the UK’s food security under pressure. Five in six farmers who have looked for workers...

The Trump administration has accused the United Kingdom of backsliding on human rights over the past year, citing antisemitic violence and “serious restrictions” on freedom of speech. The annual U.S. State Department report, which assesses human rights conditions worldwide, highlighted laws restricting speech around abortion clinics, as well as what...