France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nunez defended the decision to expel pro-Kremlin commentator Xenia Fedorova, saying on Thursday that the measure was “not an infringement on freedom of expression”. Authorities ordered her to leave France on Wednesday amid allegations that she…
European football’s governing body UEFA said on Thursday it would boycott the World Cup if FIFA pressed ahead with its private investor plan. “No UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain…
Delano D’Souza is pleased to welcome Dr. Melissa Sterry, Scientist, Designer, Strategist and Founding Director of Panarchic Codex® : Design for Living with Wildfire. Dr. Sterry reframes wildfire as a systemic phenomenon: climate change intensifies heat and drought, nineteenth century…
Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome James Reade, Professor of Economics at the University of Reading. He argues that FIFA’s reported proposal of private equity involvement in the FIFA World Cup represents far more than a financial restructuring. It raises…
UEFA’s member associations have unanimously agreed to boycott the World Cup and other FIFA competitions in opposition to FIFA’s proposal to sell stakes in a tournament-operating subsidiary to outside investors.
Social media posts are pointing to a study of more than 470,000 people to argue that sunscreen increases the risk of skin cancer. However, the study didn’t examine whether sunscreen is dangerous, and its findings have been largely distorted.
France’s wildfire risk remains “extremely high” despite a slight improvement in weather conditions, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Thursday (July 30), citing persistent drought and fast-spreading blazes across the country. Nunez said higher humidity and weaker winds had helped…
Beginning in the 1950s, the Soviet Union launched an ambitious programme aimed at developing artificial intelligence. While the history of AI today seems to be shaped by the giants of Silicon Valley, ideas originating from behind the Iron Curtain had…
Polish authorities are investigating an object that came down in eastern Poland overnight and is thought to be a Russian missile, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday. The discovery followed reports of an explosion, with investigators finding a crater…
French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the “situation is still quite complicated” as wildfires continued to burn after a crisis meeting Thursday in Paris. Regarding the giant wildfires that have spread in Gironde region, Nunez said the blaze stabilised but…