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Scientology’s Public Relations Push: Community Service as Strategy in Europe
Scientology-backed volunteers boost drug-prevention across France, using community outreach to reshape the group’s public image.
EUROPE
Plucked Out of Thin Air? How Meteorologists Name Storms
UK, Ireland & Netherlands unveil 2025-26 storm names, Amy, Brahm, and Chandra, chosen from 50k public suggestions to boost safety.
LIFESTYLE
From Balenciaga to Swatch: ‘Outrage’ as the New Ad Currency
Swatch joins brands using outrage as strategy: turning shock into sales. But fake scandals risk backlash that can destroy reputations.
Popular
Fairphone Enters the Office, Not the High Street
As Radboud University announced Fairphones for staff on 16 January 2026, effective 1 February, a niche ethical handset gained an ally that ordinary shoppers still rarely offer.
Big Tech Giants Take Over the European Public Square
Invisible code, engineered thousands of miles away, dictates the daily cadence of European voices.
Guilty by Involvement: Britain, Berbera, and Red Sea Tensions
Britain’s state-backed bets on a Red Sea port are now dragging London into a genocidal war in Sudan and a high-stakes diplomatic collision with Saudi Arabia.
Timbuktu Manuscripts Return as Museums Raise Prices
As 28,000 manuscripts arrived back at the Timbuktu Ahmed Baba Institute in August 2025 after 13 years in Bamako, Paris's Louvre raised standard admission to €22, marking the latest divergence in how access to Africa's written past is being rearranged.
Houthi Payroll Politics and Riyadh’s Bet to Secure Yemen Peace
Yemen’s government workers wait for paychecks as Riyadh bets that money will buy the peace that ten years of war was unable to secure.
