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Bastille Day terror: 'Many dead' after truck crashes into crowd in Nice, France
A truck crashed into a crowd of people in Nice, France, leaving an unknown number of people dead and many others injured. Authorities are calling it an act of terrorism, and treating it as an active...
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Abandoned churches in all their ruined glory
Roman Robroek takes beautiful photos at abandoned sites all over Europe, including the thousands of abandoned churches across the continent as much of Europe becomes more secular. (more…)
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Most European millennials would join "a large-scale uprising"
The European Broadcasters' Union polled 500,000 18-25 year olds on the question, "Would you actively participate in a large scale uprising against the generation in power if it happened in the next...
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A whirlwind timelapse tour of Europe
Stan Chang just released the second in his Magical Europe series. Warning: you may want to travel Europe after watching. (more…)
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25 years ago, a mutant American crayfish turned to asexual reproduction, and...
The marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) is a mutant slough crayfish (Procambarus fallax) an American species; the mutation that allowed slough crayfish to reproduce asexually by cloning itself...
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The EU's latest copyright proposal is so bad, it even outlaws Creative...
The EU is mooting a new copyright regime for the largest market in the world, and the Commissioners who are drafting the new rules are completely captured by the entertainment industry, to the extent...
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Watch a hyperlapse review of Europe's wintry wonderland
Spring has finally arrived, and JF1LMS is celebrating by releasing a hyperlapse of some great footage shot all winter in the Slovak village where he grew up, all shot manually in bitter cold. Crank it...
View ArticleEuropean measles outbreak infects 41,000 people, killing 27 of them (so far)
Anti-vaccine shenanigans have lowered Europe's average vaccination rate below the threshold to adequately provide for herd immunity. Following the decade's lowest year of measles cases in 2016, the...
View Article🐍 Giant python slithers around Poland scaring everyone
For nearly two months now, the people of Poland have been captivated by the tale of a missing 16-foot python that is believed to be slithering around Warsaw still. As the Wall Street Journal writers...
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What 'Independence Day' Is Like In Transnistria, An Unrecognized Country...
Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, is an Eastern European territory with a strong Soviet vibe. Technically, the country does not exist. Transnistria is considered a part of...
View ArticleEU Parliament demands Facebook audit after breach hits 87 million users
MEPs in European Parliament want Facebook to submit to a full audit by European Union bodies to determine whether the U.S. based social media company adequately protects users’ personal data. The...
View ArticleEven the rightsholders think Europe’s Article 13 is a mess, call for an...
With only days to go before the planned conclusion of the new EU Directive on Copyright in the Single Digital Market, Europe's largest and most powerful rightsholder groups -- from the Premier League...
View ArticleTwo Russia-backed hacker groups target Europe ahead of elections, FireEye...
Security services firm FireEye says two hacker groups known to be sponsored by the Russian government of Vladimir Putin are waging cyber-attacks currently against European government systems. FireEye...
View ArticleEurope's surging, far-right, "anti-establishment" parties: funded by...
On May 26th, Europeans will vote for the next EU Parliament, and the region's far-right, "nationalist/anti-establishment" parties (AfD Germany, UKIP/Brexit UK, PiS/Poland, etc) are expected make large...
View ArticleEurope just suffered through the hottest June in recorded history
Here in Alberta, Canada, it's been a frigging miserable summer so far: cold, full of rain and precious little sun. For weeks, I've been mumbling under my breath, in tooth-grinding resentment, that I...
View ArticleExtinction Rebellion activists close Geneva private-jet terminal
Activists from the group Extinction Rebellion, which protests climate change, blocked the private jet terminal at Geneva airport on Saturday. The group says they want to draw attention to private jets...
View ArticleParis: Police fire tear gas, water cannons on 'yellow vest' protest anniversary
In Paris on Saturday, police fired water cannons and tear gas on protesters who gathered to mark one year since the anti-government “yellow vest” demonstrations of 2018. The gilet jaune protests got...
View ArticleEFF announces major new EU focus and two amazing new hires
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just hired two new staffers focused on the EU: Icelandic poet, artist, and free expression activist Birgitta Jónsdóttir, and European Internet policy expert...
View ArticleGoogle users in UK will soon lose EU data protection: Report
Post-Brexit, Google plans to move UK user accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, and will place them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, where privacy protections are weaker,...
View ArticleAmazon to be hit with antitrust charges in Europe
The European Union is expected to formally file charges against Amazon.com for harvesting data from third-party sellers, and using that information to compete against those sellers on the sales...
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