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Italy

Measles-like disease killing dolphins in Tuscany, scientists reveal

Tests on some of the dolphins carried out by scientists at the University of Siena and the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale in Rome, show the dolphins were killed by cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV), the Tuscan regional authority announced on Tuesday.

Economy

Need a cheap mortgage rate? Try this Danish bank - it's less than 0%

Borrowers will be able to secure a -0.5% interest rate over 10 years.

Sweden

Automated sobriety check installed at Gothenburg port's ferry terminal

Drivers selected at random will have to submit to the test. If they fail, the gate remains closed and police is alerted.

Serbia

Serbia and Kosovo told to compromise and resume talks

Kosovo and Serbia have been told to put their differences aside so that both countries can resume membership talks with the EU.

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Australia

EU to Australia: Stop calling your cheese Feta or Gruyere

At first glance, blocks of feta produced in Australia or in Greece are not as different as chalk and cheese. But for the European Union, they are.

United Kingdom

Debate flares up over whether UK PM can suspend parliament for Brexit

Debate is hotting up in the UK over whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson should be allowed to suspend parliament to push through a no-deal Brexit as MPs prepare to take the government to court over the issue.

Malaysia

Body found in Malaysia confirmed as missing teenager Nora Quoirin

The Lucie Blackman Trust confirmed "with great sadness that the body found today is that of missing teenager Nora Quoirin."

World News

EU asylum applications jumped 10% in first six months of 2019

Overall, just over a third of decisions (34%) issued in the first six months of 2019 were granted EU-regulated protection

United Kingdom

UK MPs running out of options to block no-deal Brexit, report says

There is no time for MPs opposing to a no-deal Brexit to legislate against it or to hold elections or a second referendum that would derail such an event, according to the Institute for Government.

France

This is the camp training France's new generation of climate activists

"The leitmotiv of all these people is that they have already marched for the climate this year but they want to go a little further," a spokesperson for the camp told Euronews.

USA

'No indication' of racial motive for Ohio shooting say Police

Though police are "not close" in establishing a motive for the Ohio shooting, they've ruled a "racial motive".

United Kingdom

UK Border Force find 60 guns in car arriving in Dover from Calais

Britain's National Crime Agency said the find is believed to be "the largest seizure of lethal purpose weapons at a UK port."

France

French police and protesters clash in Nantes over man's death

The death of 24-year-old Steve Maia Canico in June has once again sparked a debate over police accountability and brutality in France.

Romania

Romania minister sacked over 'deeply wrong' comments on kidnapped teen

Romania's education minister, Ecaterina Andronescu, has been sacked over "deeply wrong" comments she made about a kidnapping case.

World News

Lull in terror attacks may not last 'until the end of 2019': UN report

The relative lull in Islamist terror attacks "may not last long, possibly not even until the end of 2019," UN monitors have warned in a report.

United Kingdom

Pro- and anti-Tommy Robinson protests to be held in London

"Experience has shown us that protests such as those planned for this weekend can create tension and disorder," a Met Police Commander said ahead of the rallies.

USA

US withdraws from key nuclear treaty with Russia

The collapse of the 1987 treaty banning intermediate-range missiles has some fearing the world could enter into a new arms race.

United Kingdom

Lib Dems win Welsh by-election, cut Johnson parliament majority to one

"My very first act as your MP when I arrive in Westminster will be to find Mr Boris Johnson, wherever he’s hiding, and tell him loud and clear: stop playing with the futures of our communities and rule out a no-deal Brexit," newly-elected Jane Dodds said.

United Kingdom

Scotland wants continued EU-protection for its whisky and salmon

Scottish authorities have called on the British government to secure mutual recognition of geographically protected produce with the EU even in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Turkey

Boris Johnson's ancestral Turkish village 'proud' over him becoming PM

The new British leader's great-great-grandfather was born in Kalfat, in central Turkey, in 1813.

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