Iranian voters face a choice between the hard-line former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and longtime MP who has allied himself with moderates and reformists within Iran's Shiite theocracy. After years of economic struggle, mass protests and tensions, public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic. No candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the initial round of voting on 28 June, forcing the runoff. The 39.9% turnout was also the lowest ever in an Iranian election. There have been calls for a boycott, including from imprisoned Nobel P...
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Travellers using Catania airport - Sicily’s largest - are facing severe delays and cancellations thanks to Mount Etna’s latest eruption. The active volcano, Europe’s highest, has seen significantly increased activity over the past week. Stromboli, on the nearby Aeolian island, could also erupt imminently. The Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia in Catania has reported that ash emanating from Mount Etna has reached a staggering 4.35 kilometres into the air. As a result, much of the airspace near the volcano was forced to close to passenger aircraft. That means that the number of arri...
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Housing insecurity is on the rise as the cost of housing increases, homelessness grows, and the availability of decent housing decreases worldwide. Recent research published in the journal Pediatrics found that housing insecurity impacts children’s well-being into their teenage years. Teenagers who experienced some degree of housing insecurity in their childhood were found to be more likely to have adverse health outcomes. The research was based on data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing (FFCWB) study, which followed children from age one through adolescence. The study examined wh...
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Russia has been hit by an overnight Ukrainian drone strike in the southern region of Krasnodar. Local media reports at least one person has been killed, while Krasnodar region Governor Veniamin Kondratyev wrote on Telegram that a home had been “completely destroyed”. Other drone attacks have been reported in the neighbouring Russian republic of Adygea, as well as the central Tombov region, which have set several oil depots on fire. Russia’s Defence Ministry did not mention the drone attack in Tombov in any of its statements. Meanwhile, the ministry has released footage which it says shows Russ...
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Brazil's Federal Police have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds the far-right leader received from Saudi Arabia during his time in office, according to a source with knowledge of the accusations. A second source confirmed the indictment, although not for which specific crimes. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorised to speak publicly. Brazil’s Supreme Court has yet to receive the police report with the indictment. Once it does, the country’s prosecutor-general, Paul...
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Why does the EU fail to produce its own Google, Amazon or Facebook? Is Europe lacking entrepreneurship, technical savvy or simply imagination? Contrary to what many think, the EU does even better than the US at creating high-tech start-ups; however, many European firms whither on the vine due to a lack of finance. Yet a simple solution has been lying in plain sight for decades – we simply need to grasp it. The answer, as with a great many questions, is money. In each of the past five years, the EU has created more high-tech start-ups than the US. Nonetheless, many of them fail to scale up, whi...
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France's biomedicine agency is calling for more sperm and egg donations, saying the number of donors is "insufficient" to meet increasing demand. A law passed in 2021 opened up reimbursement for assisted reproductive technology such as artificial insemination, in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or freezing ova to female couples and single women. These procedures had originally only been available for heterosexual couples or for medical reasons. The legal change has, however, led to long delays for these types of medical procedures and an "unprecedented increase" in demand, according to France's biom...
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Biden was joined by his family, Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff as they waved to crowds and watched the display from the balcony of the White House. Harris at one point grabbed Biden's hand and held it high in the air, and later the two hugged.
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By this fall, Spanish authorities will be using digital wallets to verify a user’s age online when they access porn or adult sites. The Cartera Digital Beta “wallet” will be a mobile app that stores an “adult age credential” issued by the Spanish government after analysing the user’s ID card stored in the system. The wallet generates 30 pairs of keys per month that can be used once to verify a person’s identity, according to a technical document released this week. The system will have double authentication “to prevent minors from accessing through adult devices,” according to Spain’s Minister...
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The survey questioned more than 750 UK investors who owned portfolios worth more than £25,000 (€29,527), apart from other savings, residential property and pensions. Some 47% of investors were happy with their portfolio performance in the past year, while just 40% were optimistic about their investments’ prospects in the next year. Soaring inflation, ongoing geopolitical conflicts and the UK’s current uncertain economic and political situation were all highlighted as the key reasons for portfolios performing disappointingly so far. Some 32% of investors revealed that higher interest rates had ...
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