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Over 80 migrants die after boat drifts 26 days south of Canary Islands

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Earth News

Why Greece's polluting 'ghost farms' are finally disappearing

Abandoned farms have left the Ionian Sea filled with fishing nets, tiles, plastics and timber - but media coverage and pressure from the authorities has triggered a momentous 'shift'.

Europe News

Greek coastguard accused of migrant boat pushback in Aegean Sea

At least 1,209 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year, according to the International Organisation for Migration.

Iran

Iran executed at least 1,639 in 2025, international NGOs say

Rights groups including Amnesty International say Iran carries out the most executions of any nation worldwide per capita, and the most of any country other than China, for which no reliable data is available.

Netherlands

Dutch initiative helps women newcomers to Rotterdam mix by cooking

At the Mixblik food factory, women from around the world combine their passion for cooking with lessons in sales, administration, food industry standards and the Dutch language.

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Israel

Israel says it 'will enforce' ban on 37 NGOs in Gaza

Israel will enforce a ban on 37 international NGOs in the Gaza Strip, citing failure to meet security and transparency standards.

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso's junta arrests European NGO workers for 'spying'

The Netherlands-based International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO) said it "categorically rejects" the allegations made regarding its eight workers.

Health news

EU Commission unlocks health funds but leaves civil society reeling from cuts

After months of delay, the European Commission has finally published its long-awaited 2025 budget programme for health, but civil society organisations say the delay and funding cuts have already caused lasting damage, forcing layoffs and halting key activities.

Gaza

More than 100 aid organisations sound alarm over famine in Gaza

In a joint statement, leading organisations including Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International and Oxfam said that famine is widespread across Gaza.

Afghanistan

Taliban deny British couple held in Afghan prison are being mistreated

UN rights experts have demanded the release of Peter and Barbie Reynolds, warning that the couple are at risk of irreparable harm or even death.

Europe News

Battle over NGO financing heats up again in Brussels

Three right-wing political groups seek to re-table a proposal to establish an investigative committee at the European Parliament, as Transparency International files a complaint against MEPs leaking sensitive NGO contracts to the press.

Europe News

Euroviews. Using public funds to sway the public is not policy — it’s propaganda

Using the European Commission’s institutional power to target companies or rig the political process isn’t a strategy. It’s abuse. And no amount of NGO window-dressing changes that, Joachim Nikolaus Steinhöfel writes.

Europe News

European Commission goes on the offensive against NGO accusations

The European Commission on Saturday denied German media reports that it had signed ”secret contracts” with environmental NGOs to promote the bloc’s climate policy.

Earth News

EU unveils Ocean Pact ahead of UN conference in France

The EU is hoping to position itself as a leader in marine protection ahead of a UN summit on preserving the world's oceans next week.

Hungary

Hungary delays vote on 'transparency law' until autumn

The "Transparency in Public Life" bill would impose strict regulations on foreign-funded NGOs that are deemed a risk to Hungary's sovereignty.

World

Thousands march in Budapest to protest 'transparency bill'

After a series of protests in the Hungarian countryside, Budapest was the scene of a silent protest organised by aHang.

World News

Salvadoran lawyer and Bukele critic Ruth López arrested

Rights group have condemned the move and have expressed concern that the attorney's whereabouts are still not known.