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EU’s new entry system frustrates travellers: up to two-hour waits at Europe’s major airports
Financial Times data show waiting times at Frankfurt, Munich and Amsterdam doubling this summer under the EU's new Entry/Exit System, prompting eight member states and Switzerland to request extended exemptions ahead of September's looming deadline


Syria’s “Site 99” that concealed Assad’s nuclear material: Israel’s threats, the deal with the US & Turkey
Assad stored material that could have been used to build a “dirty bomb” at a secret site in Syria. Following intensive negotiations and threats, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will ultimately be responsible for removing it

Messages from Fauci on the safety of coronavirus vaccines during pregnancy made public: what he wrote in 2021
Republican senators released the first messages from his government-issued phone

Historic properties dating back to the 12th century are looking for new owners
From Genoese residences and old fortresses to neoclassical mansions and tower houses in Athens, Thessaloniki, Chios, Syros, Corfu, Rhodes, Hydra, Mani and the Zagori villages, these properties constitute a special category of the market that follows its own rules
The War of the Straits: 3+1 chokepoints are reshaping the map of global shipping
Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, Suez and the Black Sea are increasing distances for ships, fuel costs, insurance premiums and freight rates, and are altering the geography of energy flows

30 years since the killings of Isaac and Solomou: They were killed in front of cameras, yet the perpetrators were never tried
The crimes were captured frame by frame, the suspects were identified, yet no one was ever brought to trial. Instead, some of those implicated even went on to political careers in the Turkish-controlled north of Cyprus

Nightmare in Colombia after magnitude 7.4 earthquake: Death toll rises to 132, 570 injured as race against time continues in the rubble
Sixty people have died in Pereira alone, five cities are under red alert, and seven airports remain closed

Mystery surrounds police officer found dead in Agios Dimitrios – Toxicology tests to reveal cause of death
The police officer was found dead in the driver's seat of a locked police vehicle. A preliminary post-mortem points to a suspected pulmonary oedema and signs of oxygen deprivation, while investigators examine an almost empty gin bottle found by his side and trace his final movements through phone signal

The incredible operation to “smuggle” Trump out of Turkey: Hidden in a catering container & flown on a military aircraft
An elaborate deception operation was carried out in Turkey last month to ensure the safe departure of Donald Trump from the country after US intelligence agencies assessed an Iranian threat against the US President as credible

Don’t fear AI, it won’t take our jobs, Zuckerberg reassures, as opposition to data centres heightens
Meta's chief defends his new strategy of combining open artificial intelligence models with investment in the cities that host data centres, in a lengthy essay

Colombia declared a state of “national disaster” after magnitude 7.4 earthquake: Over 111 dead, including children, as search for survivors continues
President Abelardo de la Espriella, sworn in just three days earlier, is now leading the emergency response and travelling to Pereira, where governors report widespread building damage, injuries and aftershock fears across Chocó and Risaralda


