Palantir: UK Fraud Files and the Swiss Press
Palantir got inside the FCA's fraud files this week while a Zurich court heard its case against a magazine that reported Switzerland had rejected it nine times....
Europe’s Air Pollution Kills the Poor Twice as Fast
Poor European regions face nearly double the air pollution death risk of wealthy ones, a Nature Medicine study of 88 million deaths published this week found....
Europe Drops the Passport Stamp for Good
Schengen passport stamps end next month, replaced by fingerprints and facial scans for more than 60 nationalities including the UK, US, and Australia....
Why Belgium Revived the Lumumba Murder Trial
A Brussels court sent Étienne Davignon, 93, to trial this week for Lumumba's 1961 killing, the first Belgian official prosecuted for it in 65 years....
Britain’s Creative Industries Beat the AI Scraping Machine
Britain dropped its AI copyright opt-out plan this week after Elton John, Thom Yorke and 88 per cent of respondents all said the same thing: no....
The Iran War Splits the Balkans
At a forum in Baku this week, former Balkan presidents warned Trump is failing on Iran, while back home Albania found itself on the front line of the same war....
Out-classed: Chalamet Takes on Europe’s Classical Arts
With the Oscars five days away, Timothée Chalamet managed to unite the opera world, the ballet world, and his own family against a single offhand remark....
France: The End of Macron’s Middle Ground
The tallies from the municipal ballots gave the political fringes a triumph that the French establishment had not planned for....
Three Forgotten Islands Could Decide the Strait of Hormuz
Iran warned this week that any attack on its Hormuz islands would turn the Gulf bloody, as the UAE signalled it now sees a chance to reclaim them....
Stuttgart Voters Punish Merz as Energy Prices Surge
In the industrial heart of Germany, rising energy costs and a sudden war have triggered a surprise election win that hints voters are reaching a breaking point....
