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Novi Sad Canopy Collapse: Ten Questions the Trial Must Answer
News

Novi Sad Canopy Collapse: Ten Questions the Trial Must Answer

A Serbian court is still preparing to hear the Novi Sad station canopy collapse that killed 16. Ten key questions show w...

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Europe's Heatwave Is Costing France Nuclear Power and Draining Norway's Hydro Reserves
Energy

Europe's Heatwave Is Costing France Nuclear Power and Draining Norway's Hydro Reserves

Summer heat has cut French nuclear output by 3.7 TWh and left Norwegian reservoirs at a 20-year low, raising the risk of...

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EU AI Act transparency rules kick in: deepfakes must be labelled
Technology

EU AI Act transparency rules kick in: deepfakes must be labelled

EU AI Act transparency obligations take effect Aug 2: AI-generated content must be labelled and chatbots must identify t...

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Angola Aims to Attract Better Investment, Not Just More Investment
Economy

Angola Aims to Attract Better Investment, Not Just More Investment

AIPEX's Arlindo Rangel says Angola now measures success by implemented projects, jobs and exports — and is leaning on ar...

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Angola Reassures: Kwanza in SADC Payment System Won't Drain Forex Reserves
Economy

Angola Reassures: Kwanza in SADC Payment System Won't Drain Forex Reserves

The BNA says adding the kwanza as a settlement currency to the SADC-RTGS will not dent international reserves and should...

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Brazil's Workers' Party Makes Lula's Fourth-Term Bid Official, Setting Up Bolsonaro Showdown
Politics

Brazil's Workers' Party Makes Lula's Fourth-Term Bid Official, Setting Up Bolsonaro Showdown

The PT formalized Lula and Alckmin as its ticket for October, with the 80-year-old incumbent leading a polarized race ag...

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Heat Waves Are Starting to Reshape Where Spaniards Buy Homes
Real Estate

Heat Waves Are Starting to Reshape Where Spaniards Buy Homes

A fifth of Spaniards say extreme heat has already pushed them to move or look elsewhere, as thermal comfort joins price ...

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Airbus Spain Faces Indefinite Strike From 24 August After Workers Reject Pay Deal
Companies

Airbus Spain Faces Indefinite Strike From 24 August After Workers Reject Pay Deal

CGT, UGT and UTIL filed an indefinite strike notice covering all Airbus Spanish centers after workers rejected a 5%/5% p...

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Avançsa Puts €4M into Open Cosmos as Catalonia Deepens Its Space Industry Bet
Companies

Avançsa Puts €4M into Open Cosmos as Catalonia Deepens Its Space Industry Bet

Catalonia's Avançsa is lending €4 million to satellite maker Open Cosmos, adding to €31 million from ICF funds and cemen...

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Euribor Explained: The Benchmark Behind Spain's Variable-Rate Mortgages
Personal Finance

Euribor Explained: The Benchmark Behind Spain's Variable-Rate Mortgages

An explainer on the Euribor: how the eurozone interbank benchmark is calculated daily, which tenors matter, and why Span...

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Chasing the Coco de Mer: A Pilgrimage to Praslin for the World's Largest Seed
Travel

Chasing the Coco de Mer: A Pilgrimage to Praslin for the World's Largest Seed

A travel writer's quest for a certified coco de mer nut leads to Praslin, where the world's largest seed grows with a my...

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CJP Core Members to Meet August 5 to Chart Future Course After NEET Protests
Politics

CJP Core Members to Meet August 5 to Chart Future Course After NEET Protests

Cockroach Janta Party core members gather in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on August 5 to set a future agenda after protests...

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Greece Sets Minimum €132/Tonne Fee for Solar Panel Recycling
Energy

Greece Sets Minimum €132/Tonne Fee for Solar Panel Recycling

Greece's recycling agency set a minimum €132-per-tonne fee (plus VAT) for photovoltaic panel waste, unlocking funding to...

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No Story to Report: Source Item Contained Only a Consent Notice
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No Story to Report: Source Item Contained Only a Consent Notice

The source item carried no editorial content, only a cookie-consent notice, so NewsFormal is filing no story rather than...

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Five Wild Joe Scarbo Builds: Baja Touareg, Ken Block's 911 and a 600kg V8
Automotive

Five Wild Joe Scarbo Builds: Baja Touareg, Ken Block's 911 and a 600kg V8

The engineer behind the Defender Trophy Truck has more in his past than Land Rover: a Baja-class Touareg, Ken Block's Pi...

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Louis-Marie Piron, Veteran of 50 Years in Real Estate, Headlines Forbes Luxembourg Event
News

Louis-Marie Piron, Veteran of 50 Years in Real Estate, Headlines Forbes Luxembourg Event

Forbes Luxembourg's Talk B17 series welcomes Louis-Marie Piron, the builder behind a 50-year construction and real estat...

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YIT Slovakia's New CEO Maps Out State Ties, Košice Entry and a 1,700-Apartment Bet
Real Estate

YIT Slovakia's New CEO Maps Out State Ties, Košice Entry and a 1,700-Apartment Bet

YIT Slovakia's new chief Patrik Golský is moving beyond Bratislava — into state cooperation, Košice and foreign markets ...

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Slovakia's Economic Literacy Shortfall, Seen Through a Mower Cutting Dead Grass
Education

Slovakia's Economic Literacy Shortfall, Seen Through a Mower Cutting Dead Grass

An opinion essay uses a municipal worker mowing a scorched lawn to argue that Slovakia's weak economic literacy lets pop...

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Forbes Slovakia Names 2026 Top 32 Influencers, With Past Winners as Judges
Lifestyle

Forbes Slovakia Names 2026 Top 32 Influencers, With Past Winners as Judges

Forbes Slovakia unveils its second annual ranking of the country's most responsible influencers, adding new names from e...

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Slovakia 2040: Vision Promises Affordable Housing, Strategy Still to Come
Real Estate

Slovakia 2040: Vision Promises Affordable Housing, Strategy Still to Come

Slovakia's 2040 vision targets cheaper flats relative to incomes, but current data show how ambitious that is — and the ...

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Why Gen Z Investors Keep Falling Into Leverage, CFD and FOMO Traps — and How to Avoid Them
Personal Finance

Why Gen Z Investors Keep Falling Into Leverage, CFD and FOMO Traps — and How to Avoid Them

New investors are being lured by 50x leverage, CFDs and zero-fee platforms. Here is what the traps really cost — and how...

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Jean Grey's MCU Debut in Spider-Man: Brand New Day Sets Up a Full X-Men Reset
News

Jean Grey's MCU Debut in Spider-Man: Brand New Day Sets Up a Full X-Men Reset

Sadie Sink introduces a new Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, planting the seeds of an X-Men reset that Marvel say...

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Japan Warned of 'Super El Niño' Risk: Heat Waves, Disrupted Typhoons and a 13% Food-Price Hit
News

Japan Warned of 'Super El Niño' Risk: Heat Waves, Disrupted Typhoons and a 13% Food-Price Hit

Japan's weather agency confirmed El Niño on June 10, but scientists warn it could grow into a record 'super El Niño' — w...

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Xiaomi Q1 Revenue Holds at ¥99.1bn as Auto Sales and Overseas IoT Offset Memory Costs
Companies

Xiaomi Q1 Revenue Holds at ¥99.1bn as Auto Sales and Overseas IoT Offset Memory Costs

Xiaomi's first-quarter revenue held near ¥100 billion despite memory price pressure, with more than 80,000 EV deliveries...

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China's M&A Market Jumps 60.7% in 2025 as Policy Reshapes Deal Logic
Companies

China's M&A Market Jumps 60.7% in 2025 as Policy Reshapes Deal Logic

Chinese M&A activity hit 2,800 deals worth over 964 billion yuan in 2025, with policy support and AI tools reshaping how...

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China Puts Elderly-Care Branding at the Core of Its Silver Economy Strategy
Health

China Puts Elderly-Care Branding at the Core of Its Silver Economy Strategy

Beijing is pushing a fragmented elderly-care sector — 40,000-plus homes, fewer than 20 listed operators — to consolidate...

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Xi'an Tianmei's Stachyose Standards Aim to Break China's Premium Prebiotic Bottleneck
Companies

Xi'an Tianmei's Stachyose Standards Aim to Break China's Premium Prebiotic Bottleneck

A Chinese stachyose maker is betting on purity standards and NMR testing to move the prebiotic ingredient up the value c...

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China's 15th Five-Year Plan Puts Financial Power, Risk Control at Core
Economy

China's 15th Five-Year Plan Puts Financial Power, Risk Control at Core

Beijing's 2026-2030 blueprint makes 'financial power' a formal goal for the first time, ordering stricter regulation and...

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Marsh to Provide Risk and Insurance Services for Meta's $10B Texas AI Data Centre
Insurance

Marsh to Provide Risk and Insurance Services for Meta's $10B Texas AI Data Centre

Marsh will handle project risk analysis and insurance for Meta and BlackRock's $10B, 1GW AI data centre campus in El Pas...

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Run-off deal volumes halve in H1 2026, but PwC sees strong pipeline ahead
Insurance

Run-off deal volumes halve in H1 2026, but PwC sees strong pipeline ahead

PwC's H1 2026 review counts 13 disclosed non-life run-off deals versus 23 a year earlier, with $780m in gross liabilitie...

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