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EU urged to build stockpiles to prepare for pandemic, natural disaster or invasion
The Guardian
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July 9, 2025
The EU should develop stockpiles of food, medicine, generators and raw materials to be better prepared for a military invasion, pandemic or natural disaster, the European Commission has said. Outlining its first-ever strategy on stockpiling, the...
Conductor Neeme Järvi Recovering From a Fall on Conductor's Podium
The Violin Channel
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July 8, 2025
The Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi had slipped on the conductor’s podium as he was throwing flowers to the singers after conducting the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra at the National Song Festival. Kultuur reported that he has since been...
Opec+ and oil executives deliver optimism from Vienna
The National News
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The Opec International Seminar, held biennially, has brought together oil ministers and industry heavyweights from Saudi Aramco and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation to the chief executives of Shell, British Petroleum (BP) and TotalEnergies. This...
Conductor Neeme Järvi recovering after fall during Song Festival encore
ERR
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July 9, 2025
Veteran conductor Neeme Järvi is recovering in the hospital this week after a fall on the conductor's podium during the final encore of the Song Festival in Tallinn on Sunday night. At the end of the main concert of the XXVIII Song Festival on...
EU’s top port braces for possible Russia war by 2030
Azzet
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July 9, 2025
Europe could be a lot closer to directly engaging in war with Russia, with the trading bloc’s largest port, Rotterdam, having already begun preparing for such an eventuality. The port’s CEO Boudewijn Siemons is understood to have told the...
Lessons in Finland’s Conscription Model
Small Wars Journal
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July 10, 2025
Finland is a country in Northern Europe that has excelled in both quality of life and military capability. Sharing one of the largest borders with a consistently hostile neighbor in Russia, Helsinki’s quality of life could not have been achieved...
Exploring the global digital ID landscape
Atlantic Council
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July 10, 2025
Report July 10, 2025 • 7:00 am ET Print this page Exploring the global digital ID landscape By Coley Felt and Will LaRivee Executive summary In an increasingly digital world, digital identity systems represent a fundamental transformation in how...
Putin could plunge UK into total blackout unless undersea cables are protected
The i paper
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July 10, 2025
Britain's network of 45 undersea cables provide essential power and communication services but are vulnerable to sabotage from a hostile state and would take months to repair Britain risks being plunged into darkness with its communication...
Ghana Card Evolves from ID to National Digital Infrastructure Spine
News Ghana
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July 9, 2025
Ghana’s national identity card is transitioning from a basic identification tool to foundational digital public infrastructure, enabling integrated service delivery across governance, healthcare, banking, and civic systems. This strategic shift,...
For the US and the free world, security demands a resilience-first approach
Atlantic Council
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July 8, 2025
Report July 8, 2025 • 8:00 am ET Print this page For the US and the free world, security demands a resilience-first approach By Elizabeth Sizeland This report is the foundational document of the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience...
New small molecule shows promise against cutaneous HPV infections
Medical News
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July 8, 2025
Human papillomaviruses, or HPVs, can cause dangerous infections in the skin and mucous membranes and may lead to cancer. Vaccines that prevent mucosal HPV infections aren't effective against cutaneous infections, which can cause serious diseases,...
Review: Before / After
Cineuropa
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08/07/2025 - Manoël Dupont’s first feature is a loosely told and largely improvised docufiction about two men forming a bond as they embark on a hair transplant journey Jérémy Lamblot and Baptiste Leclere in Before / After Brussels-based...
Don’t kill equal treatment at work bill, EU countries and MEPs tell Commission
Politico Europe
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July 4, 2025
But social affairs ministers of Belgium, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden want to save the directive from the chopping block. In the letter, they argued that...
Pinchuk Foundation, YES to discuss link between security, reconstruction on occasion of URC2025 in Rome with participation of Kellogg, other experts
Interfax Ukraine
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July 8, 2025
On Wednesday, July 9, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the Yalta European Strategy (YES) will hold a panel discussion in Rome on the topic: No Security – No Recovery, among the participants of which are US Presidential Envoy Keith Kellogg,...
Transfer movement at Hearts as new signings jet into Edinburgh ready for the SPFL
Edinburgh Evening News
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July 9, 2025
Sabah Kerjota and Pierre Landry Kabore will soon play in the SPFL Prospective Hearts signings Sabah Kerjota and Pierre Landry Kabore are arriving in Edinburgh to complete moves to Tynecastle Park. Neither is likely to be available in time for...
Italy gets offline digital wallet access as country advances digitalization
Biometric Update
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July 9, 2025
Italy is seeing a seismic shift in its civil status registers as it leaves behind analogue, paper-based recording keeping in favor of sophisticated digital identity tools. The country’s National Archive of Civil Status (ANSC) is consolidating...
Searching the Globe for Answers to America’s Thorniest Problems
Current Affairs
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July 7, 2025
In what would be the final year of the first Donald Trump administration, the COVID-19 pandemic put many age-old cracks in American society into high relief. Our ailing, grossly unequal healthcare system was woefully ill-prepared for a public...
Media Review: July 7
Bulgarian News Agency
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The topic of Bulgaria joining the eurozone dominates Monday's news media. ECONOMY 24 Chasa's front-page story reads that because of the upcoming entry in the eurozone, banks in Bulgaria are reducing fees as early as in July to make the transition...
The masks of Naomi Osaka at the US Open
Rediff
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US Open champion Naomi Osaka wore a different face mask for each of her matches at Flushing Meadows this year. They each carried the name of a Black American and aimed to highlight racial injustice in the United States to a wider audience: Round...
Lithuania Gains EU Backing For Higher Defense Spending Through 2028
MENAFN
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July 9, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 9. At the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) meeting held today in Brussels, the European Union (EU) finance ministers gave a thumbs up to Lithuania's fiscal structural plan and the...