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The European Union is preparing bloc-wide restrictions on young children’s access to social media after an expert panel urged phased, age-based controls. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the move in Brussels on July 13. She said the

Wildfires have burned more than 1,300 hectares of the historic Fontainebleau forest southeast of Paris, forcing evacuations and a major aerial response. Firefighters had not contained the blazes by late Monday after flames spread across separate parts of the forest

At least 12 people died and 23 remained missing on Saturday after a fast-moving wildfire swept through Almería province in southern Spain. The blaze continued burning near Los Gallardos and Bédar after scorching about 5,000 hectares of forest, scrubland and

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres urged governments to make the Responsibility to Protect a routine part of national policy, saying conflict, impunity and technology risks have raised the danger of mass atrocities. Courtenay Rattray, his Chef de Cabinet, delivered the

Firefighters in Portugal, Greece and Spain battled major wildfires on Sunday as heat, wind and dry ground strained emergency crews across southern Europe. The largest deployment focused on Portugal’s central Vouzela area. More than 1,200 firefighters worked there with nearly

A fast-moving wildfire in southern France has burned about 4,500 hectares in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, after spreading from the area around Trévillach. The fire began on Saturday evening in rough terrain west of Perpignan. Strong Tramontane winds, dry vegetation and

The Home Office and Border Force recorded 11,884 migrants reaching the UK in small boats across the English Channel from January to June 2026, down 41 percent from the first half of 2025. Authorities counted 19,982 arrivals in the same

A fast-moving wildfire forced nearly 3,000 people from campsites, homes and businesses in southern France after flames spread from Sainte-Marie-la-Mer to Canet-en-Roussillon near Perpignan. Firefighters deployed aircraft and ground crews on Thursday as strong wind pushed the blaze through a

EU countries returned 34,550 people to third countries in the first quarter of 2026, an 8.1% rise from a year earlier, Eurostat said. The figure covers non-EU citizens returned after receiving an order to leave. The same data showed 108,475

Six people were killed in a shooting at a youth welfare facility in Stade, a northern German town west of Hamburg, on Monday. Police said the attack happened at a mother-and-child residence on Dankersstrasse. Five victims died at the scene,