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Ukraine's human rights commissioner urged the United Nations to investigate an image widely shared online on Saturday (3 August) that he said likely showed a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war killed and dismembered by Russian forces.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Istanbul on Saturday evening (3 August) to denounce the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran earlier this week.

The leaders of seven European Union states called on Venezuela Saturday (3 August) to publish its voting records to show the "full transparency and integrity of the electoral process".

Hungary's boxing federation and Bulgaria's Olympic Committee have contacted the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to object to the participation of two athletes at the Paris Olympics, the governing bodies said on Friday (2 August) amid a gender dispute at the Games.

The United States will bolster its military presence in the Middle East, deploying additional warships and fighter jets to protect US personnel and defend Israel amid soaring tensions in the region, the Pentagon said Friday (2 August).

Israel advanced last year the highest number of settlements in the occupied West Bank since the Oslo Accords of the 1990s, the European Union's representative office in the Palestinian territories said on Friday (2 August).

Russian assaults are raising pressure on the strategic eastern logistics hub of Pokrovsk, Ukraine said on Friday (2 August), as waves of guided bombs and infantry lead to some of Moscow's largest territorial gains since the spring.

Russian opposition activists freed in an landmark prisoner exchange expressed misgivings about the terms of the deal, as the Kremlin said that at least three of its agents were among those released.

Slovakia and Hungary on Friday (2 August) rebuffed a European Commission suggestion that they could replace lost Russian oil supplies via an alternative route through Croatia, saying the country is unreliable for oil transit.

EU member states are increasingly integrating climate change concerns into their dietary guidelines, but economic and cultural differences among countries continue to stand in the way of an EU-wide consensus on sustainable and healthy diets. 

The left-wing Sumar platform, a junior partner in Spain's Socialist-led government, suffered an ideological split this week after its former leader and current Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz called for the "recognition of the results" of Venezuela's contested elections, against the will of many other platform members.

The European Investment Bank (EIB)’s €5 billion wind package kickstarted with the first €500 million counter-guarantee deal with Deutsche Bank, as part of a financial effort set to strengthen the European wind industry.

Ursula von der Leyen is facing an unfortunate and unnecessary challenge to her plans to increase investment as part of her second term as European Commission President. The political guidelines for her second term set out to “turbo charge investment”, promising to “unlock the financing needed for the green, digital and social transition.”

As the annual Rule of Law Report highlighted the deterioration of press freedom in Italy, the head of the country's largest journalists' union accused Prime Minister Georgia Meloni of shifting the blame.

The European Commission has started moving ahead with efforts to facilitate data centres for artificial intelligence (AI), needed to boost the EU’s competitiveness globally.  

Venetians and visitors alike welcomed new rules introduced on Thursday (1 August) to limit the size of tourist groups in the latest effort to reduce overcrowding.

Top Iranian officials will meet the representatives of Iran's regional allies from Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen to discuss potential retaliation against Israel after the killing of the Hamas leader in Tehran, five sources told Reuters.

The United States on Thursday (1 August) recognised Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's opponent and opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the winner of Venezuela's disputed presidential election, rejecting Maduro's claim of victory.

French President Emmanuel Macron has opted to take a back seat during the Olympic Games after weeks of domestic political turmoil, heading to his Mediterranean holiday residence and leaving Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to oversee proceedings in Paris.

The European Union on Thursday (1 August) demanded Hungary respond to fears that a decision by Budapest to relax visa rules for Russian and Belarusian nationals heightens the risk of spying in the bloc.