TAG: Safety
Northern Europe’s new naval priority: Submarine sabotage
HANKO, Finland — Finnish and British troops undertaking a routine naval training exercise on a recen...
8 months ago
Hand over ‘missing’ €5B in Russian asset profits, Ukraine tells EU
BRUSSELS — Ukraine is pushing for another €5 billion from the proceeds generated by frozen Russian assets that the EU has decided to withhold from the war-ravaged nation.Euroclear, the body holding the vast majority of Russia's central bank assets in Euro...
6 months ago
Drone strikes hit Russia-controlled nuclear power plant in Ukraine
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was targeted in drone attacks, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday.Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) present at the power station — which has been under Russian occupati...
6 months ago
6 countries move to protect the North Sea from Russians
Six countries bordering the North Sea signed an agreement on Tuesday to protect critical underwater infrastructure from foreign sabotage and attacks.The agreement — signed by Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom and Denmark — aims...
6 months ago
Von der Leyen threads the climate needle to keep her job
BRUSSELS — Ursula von der Leyen has just pulled off a delicate green balancing act. The German politician secured a second term as European Commission president on Thursday with a political program carefully designed to woo both conservatives and environm...
2 months ago
Europe’s €10 trillion gamble
BRUSSELS ― Unlike Americans, Europeans don’t take risks. If they did, the €10 trillion they have languishing in their bank accounts ― that’s more than a third the size of the U.S. economy ― could be invested in the stock market instead. That would give co...
2 months ago
Seine water quality ‘marginally acceptable’ at latest Olympics race, new samples show
PARIS — The Seine's water quality was satisfactory during the Olympics' triathlon relay race on Monday, the latest testing results revealed.During the race, the levels of E-coli bacteria in the river were measured at 418 colony-forming units (cfu) of E-co...
2 months ago
Russia sets Ukrainian nuclear power plant on fire, says Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Russia has started a fire on the grounds of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest such facility in Europe.It comes as the war between the two countries enters a new phase, with Ukraine o...
2 months ago
The sonic boom is back for passenger aviation … maybe
BRUSSELS — Two decades after the retirement of the Concorde, supersonic flight is preparing for a comeback with the same argument the iconic jet used — it could halve travel times on transatlantic trips.Boom Supersonic, an American aerospace company pumpi...
2 months ago
Ukraine’s plan to buy Russian-made nuclear reactors sparks uproar
Ukraine's government is fighting off growing opposition to a multimillion-dollar scheme to buy mothballed nuclear reactors, facing accusations that officials are opening the door to corruption just as they push to clean up the country’s energy sector.The...
2 months ago
Safety deteriorating at Ukraine nuclear plant after drone strike, IAEA warns
Safety at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is deteriorating, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned following a drone strike near the facility, Europe's largest nuclear plant.The drone struck about 100 meters from the Dniprovska po...
1 month ago
Saudi oil giant spends well over a billion on ‘sportswashing,’ new report says
Saudi Arabia is spending more than a billion dollars to sponsor global sporting events as it looks to burnish its reputation and assert itself as a global superpower, according to a new report out Wednesday.The report by think tank New Weather Institute r...
4 weeks ago
Too fast, too furious: Paris speed limit crashes into right-wing opposition
PARIS — France's new transport minister hadn’t even been on the job for a week when he sat down with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo in a last-ditch effort to get her to reconsider a controversial policy: slowing the speed limit on the capital's main ring road.T...
2 weeks ago
Ukraine kills nuclear plant’s pro-Russian security chief with car bomb
The security chief at a Russia-controlled nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was killed in a car bombing Friday, according to Russian and Ukrainian authorities.Andriy Korotkyy, head of security at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, died after his...
1 week ago