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Reuters
Oct 15, 2025

France top court rejects Le Pen’s challenge to electoral rules

Le Pen was barred in March from seeking public office for five years after a French court convicted her and other members of her party for misappropriation of funds.

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Reuters
Oct 13, 2025

Far-right Chega wins only 12% votes, 3 mayors in Portugal local polls

The party won three out of 308 elected mayorships in Sunday’s election, despite having predicted it could win 30. Its vote share fell to 12 per cent, a far cry from its nearly 23 per cent in the parliamentary election five months ago.

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Reuters
Oct 03, 2025

Macron, Merz against ‘dark enlightenment’ of authoritarianism

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron said Europe must do more to counter illiberal, anti-immigrant parties surging in opinion polls, in part by bolstering the continent’s flagging economy.

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AFP
Sep 01, 2025

UK experiences warmest summer on record

“Provisional Met Office statistics show that summer 2025 is officially the warmest on record with a mean temperature of 16.10C, surpassing the previous record of 15.76C set in 2018,” Met Office scientist Emily Carlisle said in a statement.

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Web Desk
Aug 25, 2025

Record drought in Europe, hundreds dead in Pakistan flash floods

Around half of the area has been affected by drought since mid-April 2025, a situation worse than the severe drought of the summer of 2022, AFP said.

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AFP
Aug 21, 2025

EU wildfires burnt 2.5m acres in 2025, an area larger than Cyprus

This calculation is based on a total compiled by AFP from estimates by country by EFFIS, at a time when Spain and Portugal are still battling wildfires.

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AFP
Aug 20, 2025

Climate change: Mosquito-borne diseases a new normal in Europe

“This shift is driven by climatic and environmental factors such as rising temperatures, longer summer seasons, milder winters and changes in rainfall patterns — conditions that combine to create a favourable environment for mosquitoes to thrive and transmit viruses,” it said in a statement.

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Web Desk
Jul 14, 2025

Report says new UK weather records being set ‘very frequently’

The report also found that last year was the UK’s fourth warmest since 1884 with the last three years all in the top five warmest on record.

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AFP
Jun 27, 2025

Heatwave across Mediterranean sparks health and fire warnings

The searing heat spreading across the Mediterranean from the Iberian Peninsula to the Balkans and Greece comes as climate scientists warn that galloping human-induced climate change is causing more extreme weather, including longer and more intense heatwaves.

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Web Desk
Jun 24, 2025

Trump casts doubt on mutual defence ahead of NATO summit

The NATO summit and its final statement will be focused on heeding Trump’s call to spend 5% of GDP on defence — a significant jump from the current 2% goal.