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China’s Auto Exports Surge 43.2% in First Two Months

New-energy vehicles lead a $13.91 billion charge as BYD, SAIC and Nio step up efforts in foreign markets, notably Western Europe and Southeast Asia

Caixin Global

We thought the first hunter-gatherers in Europe went missing during the last ice age. Now, ancient DNA analysis says otherwise

Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian Peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology Evolution today.

The Conversation

Russia and West clash over probe of Nord Stream sabotage

Russia has clashed with the United States and other Western nations over the Kremlin’s call for a U.N. investigation of the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Western Europe

The Independent UK

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Almost 1,000 prison guards hospitalised in just one year after attacks by lags

Mark Fairhurst, chairman of union the Prison Officers Association, called the country's prisons "the most hostile workplace in Western Europe" and said the most violent group of prisoners were the under 18s

Daily Mirror

Russia says U.S. should prove it did not destroy Nord Stream

The United States should try to prove it was not behind the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines that connected Russia to Western Europe, the Russian embassy to the United States said on Thursday.

Reuters

Old documentary detailing life on one of Scots most deprived council estates resurfaces

Thatcher-era Craigmillar was among the most impoverished communities in Western Europe, with employment rates twice as high as the Scottish national average and a lack of investment in the area.

Daily Record

Rocket released in Europe's first satellite launch

Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket was released from its carrier aircraft late on Monday, a key stage of Western Europe's first satellite launch that took off from the coastal town of Newquay in southwest England.

Reuters

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Plane carrying rocket takes off for 1st UK satellite launch

A modified jumbo jet carrying a Virgin Orbit rocket has taken off from southwestern England, marking the first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from Western Europe

The Independent UK

UK prisons 'most hostile workplaces in Western Europe' as days off with stress soar

The Prison Officers’ Association says staff are facing mental health issues because they’re operating in the most hostile workplaces in Western Europe

Daily Mirror

Czech border controls blocking migrants' route to Germany frustrate Slovakia

Slovakia on Thursday stepped up pressure on the Czech Republic to ease border controls in place for weeks to combat an increase in the number of migrants, mostly from Syria, who are heading to Germany and Western Europe.

Reuters

Prior to Industrial Revolution, global living standards were very low, says economic historian Jared Rubin

Britain industrialised first, and several other nations in Western Europe and North America followed soon thereafter, says Jared Rubin

The Hindu

In Ukraine, this volunteer sniper embodies the embattled nation’s military

He’d moved to Western Europe to work as an engineer but returned after Russia invaded and soon was being trained. “I don’t like to kill people. It’s not something you want to do. But it’s something you have to do.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Volunteer sniper embodies Ukraine’s versatile military

Andriy scrambled back to Ukraine at the start of Russia's war after moving to Western Europe to work as an engineer

The Independent UK

UPDATE: European firefighters come to France's assistance as 'monster' wildfire rages out of control

Wildfires continue to rage in south-western France this Thursday, with dozens of houses destroyed, over 6,800 hectares of land scortched, forcing the evacuation of at least 10,000 people. Firefighters from across Europe have come to France's assistance as the massive blaze in the wine-growing Gironde region continues to burn out…

Radio France Internationale

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Republicans are embracing one of the world’s worst leaders

Despite the detestable recent comments of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said “We do not want to become peoples(sic) of mixed-race” or join in Western Europe’s “mixed-race world,” CPAC will all too happily host him.

France 24

‘We’ve lost everything’: Tourists evacuated in France’s Gironde as wildfires rage

As a heatwave scorches Western Europe, some 38,500 people have been evacuated away from forest fires raging in France’s southwestern Gironde region. No deaths have been reported as of Wednesday, but holidaymakers at campsites near the Dune du Pilat – Europe’s tallest sand dune, perched amid a forest on the…

The Conversation

The UK just hit 40℃ for the first time. It's a stark reminder of the deadly heat awaiting Australia

A severe heatwave in Western Europe is shattering temperature records – including in the United Kingdom, where temperatures exceeded 40℃ on Tuesday for the first time on record.

France 24

A heatwave ‘hotspot’: Western Europe grapples with record heat, raging fires

The punishing heatwave that has triggered deadly wildfires across southwest Europe is poised to break temperature records in France and the United Kingdom early this week, confirming scientists’ warnings that Western Europe has become a heatwave “hot spot”.

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Survivor of 1942 Jewish roundup tells her story 'for those who didn't come back'

On 16 and 17 July, 1942, French police snatched close to 13,000 Jewish men, women and children from their homes in Paris in what was the largest operation of its kind in Western Europe. Most were taken to the Winter Velodrome before being sent to the death camps. Arlette Testyler,…

The Independent UK

Firefighters battle wildfires from Portugal to France

Firefighters from Portugal and Spain to southern France are battling a spate of wildfires scorching Western Europe amid an unusual heat wave that authorities link to climate change

France 24

Holocaust: Meeting the last witnesses to the Vél d'Hiv roundup, 80 years on

Over two days in the summer of 1942, French police carried out Western Europe’s largest wartime roundup of Jews, acting on orders from occupying German forces and their French allies in the Vichy Regime.

Axios

Heat domes spike in Europe as climate change helps shift weather patterns

The persistent heat domes are becoming far more common than similar events elsewhere in the world.

WEKU

Shredded trees, dead dolphins and wildfires — how Russia's invasion is hurting nature

The environmental impacts from Russia's invasion of Ukraine could be felt far longer than the war itself.

Wales Online

Russian journalist sells Nobel Prize for over 100m dollars to help Ukraine

Dmitry Muratov left Russia for Western Europe on Thursday to begin his trip to New York City, where the auction took place

The Independent UK

Hot weekend for Europe, officials warn of extreme fire risk

People are flocking to parks and pools across Western Europe for a bit of respite from an early heat wave that saw the mercury rise above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in France and Spain

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