The European Commission has given more details on how it plans to end Europe's dependence on Russian fossil fuels.
Russia supplies 40% of the EU's natural gas and 27% of its imported oil. The EU sends the country roughly $420 billion a year in return.
Now, the EU plans to speed its shift to green energy, but says it must also invest in pipelines in other countries. It has been accused of helping fund the war in...
Social media sites are facing criticism for the spread of graphic and far-right material from Saturday's attack in Buffalo, New York, the BBC reports.
Campaign group Hope Not Hate called the response "wholly inadequate."
The gunman livestreamed the fatal shooting of 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket on Twitch. Twitch quickly took down the livesuffaltream on Saturday – but Meta and Twitter's moderation remains under scrutiny.
The platforms say footage from the attack and links to the shooter's manifesto are...
Turkey's president has restated his opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO - just hours after they said they would seek membership.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the two Nordic nations should not bother sending delegations to convince Turkey, a key NATO member, of their bids, the BBC reports.
He says he is angered by what he sees as their willingness to host Kurdish militants.
Without the support of all NATO members, Sweden and Finland cannot join the...
Data about every internet user is shared hundreds of times each day as companies bid for online advertising slots, a report suggests.
The study, by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), found that the average European user's data is shared 376 times per day. The figure rises to 747 times daily for U.S.-based users, the report claims.
Revenue from digital advertisements is what keeps most internet services free to use.
The ICCL is currently engaged in legal action...
Switzerland voted Sunday to boost the availability of transplant organs by making everyone a potential donor after death unless they have expressly objected, reports Medical Xpress.
The legal change, approved by 60% of voters in a referendum, marks a dramatic shift from the current system.
Under the existing laws, transplants are only possible if the deceased person consented while alive – and their wishes are often unknown. In such cases, the decision is left up to relatives, who...
Last year, scientists at Scripps Research and Toscana Life Sciences studied the blood of 14 COVID-19 survivors to find the most potent antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. One of the leading molecules that emerged – now in stage II/III trials in Italy – was an antibody dubbed J08, which seemed to be capable of both preventing and treating COVID-19.
Now, the same group – a collaboration between scientists at Scripps Research and in Italy and France –...
Bernard Bigot, a French scientist leading a vast international effort to demonstrate that nuclear fusion can be a viable source of energy, has died, Phys.org reports. He was 72.
The organization behind the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, said Bigot died Saturday from an unspecified illness. The organization's director general since March 2015, Bigot was approaching the midway point of his second term, due to end in 2025.
An ITER statement described his death as "a...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned his Finnish counterpart that joining NATO and abandoning Finland's neutral status would be a "mistake".
He told Sauli Niinistö there was no threat to Finland's security, the BBC reports.
The exchange came during a phone call made by the Finnish president, ahead of a formal request that Finland is expected to announce soon. Sweden has also indicated its intention to join the western alliance, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Finland shares a...
North Korea today (Saturday) reported 21 new deaths and 174,440 more people with fever symptoms as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19, reports Medical Xpress.
The new deaths and cases, which were from Friday, increased total numbers to 27 deaths and 524,440 illnesses amid a rapid spread of fever since late April. North Korea said 243,630 people had recovered and 280,810 remained in quarantine. State media didn't specify how many of the...
A total lunar eclipse will grace the night skies this weekend, providing longer than usual thrills for stargazers across North and South America, Phys.org reports.
The celestial action unfolds Sunday night into early Monday morning, with the moon bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth's sunsets and sunrises for about 1.5 hours, one of the longest totalities of the decade. It will be the first so-called blood moon in a year.
Observers in...
