Iceland voters reject move to restart EU accession talks
Icelanders voted against resuming accession talks with the European Union, closing off the referendum’s central option.
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Iceland votes on reopening European Union membership talks
A national referendum asks whether Iceland should restart EU accession negotiations, reopening debates over security, sovereignty, fishing and the economy.
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Serbia says Ratko Mladić will receive state and military honors after death
Serbia’s justice minister says the convicted Bosnian-Serb commander will be buried with the country’s highest military and state honors, a move likely to deepen regional anger over wartime accountability.
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King Harald V Dies at 89, Bringing a 35-Year Reign in Norway to a Close
Norway entered a new royal era after King Harald V died in Oslo and Crown Prince Haakon automatically became King Haakon VIII.
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Cambodia says it has closed more than 700 scam compounds in year-long crackdown
Cambodia says it shut more than 700 online scam centres, detained nearly 30,000 suspects and deported tens of thousands of foreign nationals in a year-long campaign against a cybercrime industry that has spread across the region.
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Vienna museum theft puts 200-carat necklace and security under scrutiny
Two men allegedly walked into Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts with tickets, smashed a display case and left with a 200-carat platinum-and-diamond necklace, turning a carefully staged exhibition into the latest in a run of high-profile European museum heists.
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Greenland launches reconciliation process after Danish contraception reports
Greenland and Denmark are moving to a reconciliation commission and compensation scheme after experts split over whether forced contraception amounted to genocide.
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Norway mourns King Harald V after his death at 89, as Haakon becomes king
Norway’s King Harald V has died aged 89 after a period of declining health, triggering national mourning and the accession of his son, Haakon, to the throne.
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Norway mourns King Harald V after death at 89, with Crown Prince Haakon succeeding him
The Norwegian monarch died after treatment for a rare blood condition, triggering national mourning and the accession of his son, Haakon.
Read report »Israel says two youths will be indicted over alleged ISIS pledge and attack plot
Police and prosecutors are moving against a 16-year-old and a 19-year-old accused of planning attacks on security forces at the Temple Mount and an IDF base.
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Denmark Approves Compensation for Greenlandic Women Affected by Coercive Birth-Control Campaign
A new Danish compensation law arrives as Greenland and Denmark continue to dispute whether the historic campaign amounted to genocide against Inuit women and girls.
Read report »Tooro Kingdom’s King Oyo dies at 34, ending a historic reign
Uganda’s Tooro Kingdom has lost its monarch, King Rukidi IV, who became one of the world’s youngest rulers when he took the throne as a child.
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Trump orders US agencies to use ‘Lake America’ for Lake Ontario
The federal naming change applies to American maps and databases, while Canadian leaders and several US governors rejected the new label.
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Zambian opposition candidate Brian Mundubile held in treason inquiry
The presidential runner-up surrendered after two weeks in hiding as a disputed election result and an unusual court closure intensified scrutiny of Zambia’s political process.
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June 2028 trial set for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three co-defendants
A military commissions judge rejected prosecutors’ proposed January 2027 start, extending the long-running Guantánamo case by about 18 months.
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Two dead after driver strikes pedestrians in Caen
French authorities detained a 26-year-old man after the deliberate ramming near the Normandy city’s train station; prosecutors said terrorism was not the current theory.
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Russia seeks German reporter Michael Martens through international notice
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung correspondent faces an in-absentia arrest order and a Russian incitement case over a question asked at a Belgrade press conference.
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Deogratius Ndejembi nominated as Tanzania’s next vice president
The former energy minister was selected to replace Emmanuel Nchimbi but still required National Assembly confirmation and an oath before taking office.
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US designates Palestine Action and two other groups as terrorist organizations
Washington also listed Italy-based Autistici/Inventati and pro-Palestinian Masar Badil as officials pledged financial pressure against movements they called violent and far-left.
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Tanzania Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi announces resignation
Nchimbi said he would leave politics and public service on September 4, amid reports of tension within President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government.
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Brazil fines TikTok 153.7 million reais over protections for young users
The ANPD ordered ByteDance to erase improperly processed data and strengthen privacy, parental controls and content filtering for accounts belonging to children under 16.
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Aargau parliament backs headscarf ban for schoolgirls aged 16 and under
Lawmakers approved the motion 78–54 despite the Swiss canton’s government warning that a religion-specific clothing restriction could conflict with constitutional protections.
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Hungary seeks criminal probe into $965 million ventilator purchase
Hungary has asked prosecutors to examine whether a pandemic-era ventilator procurement from China involved fraud or other offenses.
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X Corp. threatens Nitter with cease-and-desist over scraping claims
The company accused the open-source X viewer of scraping data and demanded it stop displaying posts without using X directly.
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