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Universities say they will face a cash crisis if lucrative foreign fee income is cut and not replaced, with one recently published analysis by the Russell Group suggesting the sector would be left £580 million out of pocket. A U.K. official said the home fees demand wasn’t mentioned in the “common understanding” drawn up as […]

Macron has linked the attack to the war in the Middle East but declined to assign blame for the killing. Instead he said he would remain “prudent,” wait to speak to the Iraqi prime minister and receive more details from the France’s own armed forces. The incident, however, comes as a pro-Iranian armed group called Ashab […]

Oldbury is “an absolutely prime site” for private firms to sweep in, he told MPs in February. “We have lots of companies from the U.S. working with U.K. companies on these other routes to market,” he said.  Easing planning rules to build nuclear closer to urban centers could open up another site, Heysham in north-west England, to future development. That site is owned by French […]

The senior official also complained about a stipulation in the law that if the level of deforestation in any country exceeds 70,000 hectares annually, that country cannot be considered “low risk.” That standard “just doesn’t work for us,” they said. “It’s not fair.” Representatives from the European Commission are meeting with members of the delegation […]

Norway supplies roughly a third of EU gas imports, though Arctic gas accounts for a much smaller share, around 3 percent of the bloc’s imports. Still, Norwegian leaders argue a moratorium would send the wrong signal while Europe remains dependent on external energy supplies. Norwegian officials, industry groups and unions are lobbying Brussels to drop […]

“We are in fact condemning the attitude of Ms Metsola, whom our French delegation and our Patriots group had asked to hold a minute of silence here in tribute to Quentin,” Jean-Paul Garraud, head of the French National Rally in the European Parliament, wrote on social media. “Metsola had indeed promised us this minute of […]

FIFA is caught between Iran and a hard place. Tehran’s football federation has urged the world governing body to eject the U.S. from the 2026 World Cup, while America hammers Iran with missile strikes. The U.S. is co-hosting the premier football tournament this summer along with Canada and Mexico, and the U.S.-Israeli strikes that decapitated […]

“Russia will get money for its war machine and there are a lot of drones that are built on Russian soil to destabilize the Middle East,” he added. The U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory attacks against American allies in the Gulf have halted transit in the Strait of Hormuz, driving up energy prices. […]

“The European Union’s indifference and acquiescence in the face of U.S. and Israeli aggression, brutalities and atrocities amounts to nothing less than complicity,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said. 21 HRS ago 2 mins read

Demobilized Russian fighters could pose crime and security risks for the EU’s Schengen free-movement area, northern and eastern capitals warn. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech