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A schoolboy, a professor and a designer among winners of Dubai's app championship

Ehsan Adouane started interviewing scientists on YouTube at the age of nine. At 13, he beat thousands of entrants worldwide to win one of Dubai's top tech prizes. His app, Ettan Ehsan turns homework into a game, breaking school subjects into quick, visual challenges. It took the Best Youth-made App award at this year's Create Apps Championship. "I want to now help students just like me to make homework more fun and more fast-paced and more gamified," he says. The win brings money and backing.

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Could the US cut Ukraine off from vital military intelligence again?

When Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv on Monday night, residents were caught off guard. There was no advance air-raid warning, leaving people confused and with no time to seek shelter as explosions rocked the capital. Such incidents have occurred before, but this time the lack of warning fuelled speculation that Washington might have suspended intelligence-sharing with Kyiv amid escalating diplomatic tensions. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Tuesday that Ukraine had received n

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Spanish crown returns to Ceuta after 19 years amid lingering migration crisis

Felipe VI has taken 12 years on the throne to make it to Ceuta, and he is doing so in the same month, intriguingly, as his great-grandfather. The King and Queen Letizia will enter Ceuta's City Hall, in Plaza de África, launching a two-day trip that continues tomorrow in Melilla. It is the first time they have officially set foot in both cities as monarchs. The last royal visit was by Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía, in November 2007, after an 80-year gap. This time the backdrop is very different:

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Video. Kazakhstan’s first Open Asian Falconry Cup showcases ancient hunting heritage

Golden eagles, hawks and saker falcons featured in traditional hunting contests at the inaugural Open Asian Falconry Cup , the main competition of the fifth Shygys Salburyny International Festival . Participants came from Kazakhstan , Türkiye , Russia , China , Mongolia , Kyrgyzstan , Uzbekistan , Georgia , Spain and Hungary . Around 15,000 spectators attended the two-day event, which also featured sighthound races, the taming of unbroken horses, mounted archery, the horseback coin-picking cont

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Vatican says growth on Pope Leo XIV's lung was cancerous

Pope Leo XIV had part of his right lung removed during an operation on Tuesday after doctors found a cancerous growth, according to the Vatican. "To ensure the procedure was radical, the lower lobe of the right lung was removed," the Vatican said in a statement, whilst also confirming a diagnosis of a "pulmonary adenocarcinoma, as suspected from the pre-operative tests." "The Holy Father was in the operating room for about 3 hours, and the duration of the operation itself was around 90 minutes

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Europe paid Russia $209bn for energy since 2022, far below Moscow’s $320bn claim

The European Commission disputed Russia's claim on Tuesday that the EU spent $320.7 billion (€286 billion) on energy from Moscow since 2022, citing a significantly lower figure, according to a Commission spokesperson. Contrary to Moscow's claims, Russia supplied the EU with €197 billion ($209 billion) worth of energy between March 2022 and July 2026, the Commission spokesperson said, citing COMEXT data, the official reference database managed by Eurostat. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexande

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Sweden's centre-left leader Magdalena Andersson again fails to form government

Sweden's Social Democratic party leader Magdalena Andersson said Tuesday she had failed to form a government with the three other parties in the left-wing bloc following last month's election. "My overall assessment is that progress has been made, but at the same time, the conditions are currently not in place to form a government that can be tolerated by the parliament," Andersson told a press conference. She spoke after reporting back to parliament speaker Andreas Norlen, who had tasked her

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One dead, two arrested as Portugal seizes 3.7 tonnes of cocaine off Faro coast

Portuguese authorities have seized 3.7 tonnes of cocaine off the coast of Faro, in the Algarve, following an international operation against drug trafficking. In a statement, the Judicial Police (PJ) said the seizure, carried out on Sunday, came after "an investigation that led to the dismantling of a criminal group dedicated to introducing large quantities of drugs into the European continent through the use of high-speed vessels." The drugs were aboard one such vessel, "detected and intercep

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Europe must switch to 'war-mode' defence production, Polish defence minister says

Poland’s Minister of National Defence and Deputy Prime Minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, said Europe must adopt a “war-mode” mentality in its defence sector or risk harming Europeans in the future. “I am actually an advocate for the war-mode when it comes to the production in defence sector,” he said at a press conference on the sidelines of the Warsaw Security Forum on Tuesday. “This is what the Russian Federation does at the moment. We cannot overlook this fact.” Russia shifted towards w

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'Our future is being robbed': Greta Thunberg joins France student protests against school conditions

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joined high school pupils campaigning for better learning conditions in France on Tuesday ahead of fresh nationwide demonstrations, with authorities and participants wary of further violence. The 23-year-old, who became famous as a teen for school strikes to demand action on climate change, stood among pupils demonstrating outside a school at the heart of the movement in the capital's largest suburb of Saint-Denis. Thunberg arrived at the Paul Éluard high school

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Hungarian lawmakers vote to cut anti-LGBTQ+ legislation from Orbán-era law

Hungarian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to remove anti-LGBTQ++ provisions in a 2021 "child protection" law adopted under nationalist ex-leader Viktor Orbán. Parliament passed a bill to amend the law with 139 votes in favour and 51 votes against, marking the first significant reversal of Orbán's curbs targeting the LGBTQ++ community since pro-EU Prime Minister Péter Magyar took power in May. Instead of banning the "portrayal" or "promotion" of sexual and gender diversity in content accessible to c

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EU ends anti-corruption funding curbs on Hungary, freeing €4.2bn

The Council of the EU has brought an end to the conditionality mechanism imposed on Hungary to address corruption risks in the country. The decision unfreezes €4.2 billion in funding and allows Hungary to rejoin the Erasmus+ student exchange programme and the Horizon Europe research initiative. The EU introduced the conditionality mechanism in 2022 under the government of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, making access to EU funds dependent on respect for the rule of law. The move also led t

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Germany, Italy and Belgium call for ‘emergency brake’ on EU legislation

The leaders of Germany, Italy and Belgium have called for a mechanism to halt new EU legislation deemed excessively burdensome for businesses, as part of a broader push to strengthen the bloc’s economic competitiveness. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever have proposed an “emergency brake” in a letter sent on Monday to European Council President António Costa, seen by Euronews. The proposed mechanism would act as “a l

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Benjamin Netanyahu orders prosecution of 'NAZA' documentary interviewees

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the country’s attorney general and the head of the Shin Bet security service to reveal the identities of officers interviewed in the award-winning film NAZA . Netanyahu is ordering for the filmmakers, Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, to be prosecuted for causing “harm to Israel’s diplomatic and security interests”. He has asked for attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara, IDF chief of staff Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, and S

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Child marriage in southern Germany: Over 350 cases recorded, some brides as young as 11

In the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, a total of 358 so-called child marriages have been officially recorded since 2012. Only eight of these forced marriages have so far been legally annulled. According to authorities, the other 350 cases were brought to an end in other ways. This alarming finding comes from a response by the Baden-Württemberg state government to a minor inquiry submitted by AfD state parliament members Nikolaos Boutakoglou and Emely Knorr. The Tübingen region

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Video. EU sovereignty is ‘a need’ in the space, Sateliot CEO says

Jaume Sanpera, CEO of Spanish satellite operator Sateliot, believes Europe needs to “wake up” and avoid becoming dependent on two global power blocs. The industry, he argues, needs “a push” to help European tech companies become global champions. Sateliot, a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellites, recently launched five new satellites. According to Sanpera, Europe “needs to have its own sovereignty in space”. In such a fast-moving industry, concerns over overregulatio

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No respite for Ukraine despite Trump’s energy truce announcement

As an aside, you might notice a new look and feel to our newsletter from today. Good news: you can now also read Europe Today every morning in French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. But first, some breaking news: Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev has said that two more ships have been hit by drones in the Black Sea, one of which sank. Ukraine has blamed previous such attacks on Russia, accusing Moscow of seeking to choke off Kyiv’s vital maritime export route. More . Ukraine under

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At least 11 missing after two ships struck off Bulgaria in latest Black Sea attack, official says

Eleven people are missing after two merchant ships were struck off the Bulgarian coast on Tuesday in the latest spillover from the Ukraine war in the Black Sea. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev summoned the Russian ambassador after drones struck a Ukrainian-owned cargo ship, while another vessel was also hit and sank further north off the coast of the NATO and EU member. NATO chief Mark Rutte said the alliance would adjust its defences "as needed." Radev said the Ukrainian-owned cargo shi

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