🇵🇱 • Karol Nawrocki officially sworn in as the new President of Poland.

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🇮🇹 • Italy's government, under PM Giorgia Meloni, is pushing to restart the long-delayed Messina Strait bridge project, connecting Sicily to the mainland. The €13bn initiative is now being framed as strategic military infrastructure, potentially allowing Italy to count it toward NATO's defense spending targets.

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🇷🇺 • Moskow's State University closed their "Nature of Time Institute", which had held over 850 meetings in 25 years. They were trying to develop means of teleportation and time travel.

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🇮🇹🇺🇸 • Elon Musk’s SpaceX has signed a historic agreement with the Italian Space Agency to transport experiments to Mars aboard Starship. The missions will carry payloads designed to collect valuable scientific data.

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🇩🇪 • Germany’s industrial production plunged 1.9% in June—the sharpest fall since May 2020 and well above the expected 0.5% drop—pushing factory output to its lowest level since the pandemic.

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🇳🇱 • Netherlands says it's not planning to recognize Palestinian state at this time.

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🇮🇹🇺🇸🇷🇺 • Rome is being floated as a possible venue for a Trump-Putin summit that could take place as soon as next week.

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 • Today, the Council of the EU decided to provide Ukraine with €3.056 billion under the Ukraine Facility, - Ukrainian PM Svyrydenko

We are grateful to the Danish Presidency for its clear support. Every such decision brings us closer to a strong Ukraine in a united Europe.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 • Trump, Putin to meet in Alaska on August 15

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🇺🇦 • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:

The answer to the Ukrainian territorial question is already in the Constitution of Ukraine. No one will retreat from this and no one can. Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier.

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 • Europe and Ukraine have unveiled a bold peace framework, demanding a full ceasefire before any negotiations, reciprocal territorial exchanges, and ironclad security guarantees for Kyiv, potentially including NATO membership.

The plan firmly rejects Putin’s push for Ukraine to cede Donetsk without concessions, setting a strong stance ahead of Trump’s Alaska summit with Putin on August 15, 2025.

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🇩🇪🇮🇱 • German Chancellor Friedrich Merz:

We stand by Israel, and we also identify the causes of this conflict very clearly: This is Hamas' terrorism. This is the terror of October 7, 2023, which continues to this day. This must be combated.

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🇩🇰🇪🇪🇫🇮🇮🇸🇱🇻🇱🇹🇳🇴🇸🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸🇷🇺 • Nordic-Baltic G8 countries issue statement warning against peace talks with Russia without taking into account Ukraine's position and Europe's security.

Negotiations can only take place under a ceasefire. President Zelensky has made it clear that Ukraine is ready for peace talks, provided that its sovereignty is fully respected. The Nordic-Baltic G8 will remain by Ukraine's side, united in purpose and resolute in defending our security.

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🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 • The United States and Ukraine's European allies agree that Europe will fund further military and security assistance to Ukraine. US Vice President JD Vance gave an interview to Fox News on August 10 and reiterated the Trump Administration's position that the United States will no longer directly fund the Ukrainian military effort, but that Europe can continue to buy weapons from US manufacturers for Ukraine and Europe's own defensive needs.

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🇩🇪🇺🇦 • Germany's Rheinmetall announces plans to double production capacity at its forthcoming Ukrainian artillery facility, aiming to manufacture 300,000 155mm artillery shells annually by 2026 to strengthen Ukraine's defense capabilities.

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🇫🇷 • French nuclear plant halts reactors over jellyfish in filters, power company says.

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🇳🇴🇮🇱 • Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund terminates all contracts with asset managers handling Israeli investments and has divested parts of its portfolio.

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🇪🇺 • Radar satellite data shows Europe's arms factories are expanding at three times the peacetime rate, covering more than 7 million square metres since Russia's 2022 invasion in a scale unseen in decades.

EU subsidies such as the €500 million ASAP programme have accelerated shell, missile, and explosives production, with ammunition capacity set to rise from 300,000 to 2 million rounds annually by the end of this year. Major players including Rheinmetall, BAE, MBDA, Nammo, and Kongsberg are building new facilities and roads, with some shell output expected to multiply more than tenfold.

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🇮🇹🇮🇱 • Italy’s Defense Minister has posited sanctions on Israel, calling the situation in Gaza unacceptable and contrary to the founding values of our civilization.

What is happening in Gaza is unacceptable. We are not facing a military operation with collateral damage, but the pure denial of the law and the founding values of our civilization.

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