67 h. ago Tiny baby 'fighting for life' after brain dead woman on life support gives birth

Adriana Smith's son, Chance, was born via emergency caesarean and weighing one pound and 13 ounces early on Friday morning.

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7 d. ago Dublin is the only large European capital without a metro: what would Leopold Bloom make of that? | Dermot Hodson

In James Joyce’s Ulysses, the city’s most famous fictional resident was as frustrated by its transport links in 1904 as many of us are todayIreland’s planning body, An Bord Pleanála, will determine later this year the fate of an ambitious proposal to build the country’s first underground railway. Residents of the Irish capital won’t be holding their breath, however. Since it was first proposed 25 years ago, MetroLink has been cancelled, revived and rebranded. The latest version of the plan, which involves just 18.8km of track, has been subject to delays, costs that have spiralled to five times the original estimate, and fierce opposition from homeowners, heritage bodies and businesses.A wide-awake city of tech firms, theatres and tourist attractions, Dublin is one of the EU’s richest metropolitan areas; it is also the only large western European capital without a metro. No Dubliner would have been more frustrated with the situation’s absurdities, and MetroLink’s slow progress, than ...

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9 d. ago Golub Capital eyes European expansion and unveils new London office

Golub Capital eyes European expansion and unveils new London office  Alternative Credit Investor

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1 week ago Brits should learn to speak Russian if defence spending isn't ramped up, NATO chief warns

NATO secretary general Mark Rutte, speaking at an event in central London, warned that Vladimir Putin will be able to mount a credible threat against the bloc within five years, with missiles able to reach European capitals in minutes

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1 week ago Norway’s oil fund calls for urgent reform of European capital markets

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund says ambitious action needed to improve competitiveness

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1 week ago Woman in her 30s fighting for her life after being found injured on the road moments after riding e

The woman was found injured by police on Corporation Road in Leicester at around 3pm last Sunday and remains in a critical condition in hospital.

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2 w. ago Ukraine hits Crimea bridge with underwater explosives – Europe live

Russia says traffic has been temporarily suspended on the road and rail bridgeItalian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and France’s president Emmanuel Macron will aim to reconcile their difference in talks in Rome on Tuesday, according to AFP.The European rivals are meeting in the Italian capital from 18.00 GMT for talks and then dinner, an encounter Macron said he had initiated. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Israel fears the threat of trade sanctions — but is the EU ready to follow through? | Martin Konečný

A human rights review of EU-Israel ties is under way. The results will be significant for both the war and Europe’s reputationAfter many months of inaction and complicity in the face of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, Europe is finally beginning to stir. Tens of thousands of people killed and attacks on schools and hospitals had apparently not been enough. But, along with the blocking of humanitarian aid and open calls for ethnic cleansing, Israel’s actions finally became too severe to ignore, deny or justify. In recent weeks, a cascade of unusually strong statements, diplomatic rebukes and threats of sanctions has emerged from European capitals – each move amplifying the next, as if a long-dormant herd has suddenly jolted into motion.Among these developments, the most significant may be the possible suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement, which grants Israel preferential access to the world’s largest single market. Last month, the Dutch foreign minister, Caspar Veldkamp, b...

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2 w. ago The EU faces a moment of truth. Will it follow through on trade sanctions on Israel – or slide into irrelevance? | Martin Konečný

A human rights review of EU-Israel ties is under way. The results will be significant for both the war and Europe’s reputationAfter many months of inaction and complicity in the face of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, Europe is finally beginning to stir. Tens of thousands of people killed and attacks on schools and hospitals had apparently not been enough. But, along with the blocking of humanitarian aid and open calls for ethnic cleansing, Israel’s actions finally became too severe to ignore, deny or justify. In recent weeks, a cascade of unusually strong statements, diplomatic rebukes and threats of sanctions has emerged from European capitals – each move amplifying the next, as if a long-dormant herd has suddenly jolted into motion.Among these developments, the most significant may be the possible suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement, which grants Israel preferential access to the world’s largest single market. Last month, the Dutch foreign minister, Caspar Veldkamp, b...

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2 w. ago Car ploughs into crowd celebrating PSG Champions League win in French city of Grenoble leaving four members of the same family injured as young woman fights for life

A young woman was said to be the worst injured and 'fighting for her life' after being hit first.

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2 w. ago Brit woman dies as SUV ploughs into bakery at holiday hotspot as husband fights for life

The woman's husband is in hospital fighting for his life while the driver is said to have suffered only minor injuries in the horror crash on the holiday island of Kos

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2 w. ago British woman is killed and her husband left fighting for life after SUV crashes into bakery in Kos

The driver reportedly lost control of his vehicle before slamming into the building, in Tigaki, Kos, shattering the windows and dragging the couple along.

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2 w. ago Brit woman dead in Kos and husband fighting for life as SUV crashes into bakery

The driver allegedly lost control of his vehicle before crashing into the bakery, shattering the windows and dragging the British couple along - leaving one dead and another fighting for his life

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3 w. ago Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country?

Switzerland is home to more than 370,000 nuclear bunkers – enough to shelter every member of the population. But if the worst should happen, would they actually work?At first, Zora Schelbert, the chief operating officer and tour guide at the Sonnenberg nuclear bunker in Lucerne, Switzerland, wasn’t sure whether the requests she was receiving were a joke. It was February 2022, and Russia had just dropped the first bombs over Kyiv. “People were asking me what kind of measures they should take, where they would have to go,” Schelbert said. She quickly realised they had confused the historical society she works for, Unterirdisch Überleben (Surviving Underground), for the local department of civil protection.To the alternating fascination, bewilderment and envy of its European neighbours, Switzerland, population nearly 9 million, has more bunkers per capita than anywhere else in the world – enough to guarantee shelter space to every single resident in the event of a crisis. (Sweden and F...

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3 w. ago Expert warns of fatal error to avoid during bear attack following terrifying incident

A horrifying bear attack has left a woman critically injured just miles from a European city, but not many people are aware of what they should do if they encounter a bear

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3 w. ago Woman fighting for life after horror bear attack as grizzly beast disappears into forest

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A woman has been left in a critical condition following a bear attack in a forest in a tourist hotspot, with the animal fleeing back to the woods

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3 w. ago Woman fighting for life after bear attack just miles from European capital

Residents have been warned to stay away from the area and be cautious

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