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    British father fined €3,000 in Cyprus over toddler's fatal hotel window fall

    A 37-year-old British father has been fined €3,000 by a court in Paphos, avoiding a prison term after his young son died in a fall from a fourth-floor hotel window on the first day of their holiday.

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Two tankers burn off Sulina

Trump squeezes Kyiv as Europe haggles over money and Black Sea shipping burns

Ukrainian officials said the White House ordered a 160 km/h speed cap on Starshield terminals used by fast drones, as Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine would resume strikes on Russian refineries after a three-day pause. In the Black Sea, two tankers burned near Romania and at least seven sailors were missing, while rescuers in Peshawar counted at least 34 dead after a school roof collapsed.

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  • Lions rugby player dies in France

    SA Rugby says Johannesburg Lions player Hyron Andrews, 31, died after a fall at the team hotel in La Rochelle and that the death was an accident.

  • Pope Leo XIV undergoes lung surgery

    Pope Leo XIV will make his first public appearance since his hospitalisation on Sunday to deliver the Angelus prayer, the Vatican says.

  • Settler attacks in the West Bank

    Settler attacks during the West Bank olive harvest injured at least 12 Palestinians, a local official tells the BBC.

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European Union · Updated 23m ago

The Green Deal under revision

The findings add detail to the already recorded Franco-German 2035 compromise and the ETS2 split, with no new formal decision.

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