Over 90% of irregular migrants reaching the EU rely on smugglers.

Today, the Council & the EP reached a provisional deal to strengthen Europol's fight against smuggling & trafficking.

It will improve operational support & create a new centre to deal with migration. 👇
link.europa.eu/Py4Rrq

The 9 Speeches I'll Be Tracking at UNGA This Year Your UNGA Cheat Sheet

Here are the 9 UNGA speeches I'm most anticipating

www.globaldispatches.org/p/the-9-spee...

Quiz- Connaissez-vous bien l’histoire de la colonisation ? En amont de notre cycle de conférence « Pourquoi la colonisation nous hante », dix questions pour tester vos connaissances sur le sujet.

Quiz- Connaissez-vous bien l’histoire de la colonisation ?

The Murder of Tamima Nibras Juhar and Far-Right Violence in Norway - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism The murder of Tamima Nibras Juhar on August 24 is part of a long series of severe far-right and racist attacks in Norway in recent years. To prevent such attacks in the future, it may help to understa...

The murder of Tamima Nibras Juhar on Aug 24 is part of a long series of severe far-right & racist attacks in Norway in recent years, writes the RTV team at C-REX in a new blog post. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Photos supposedly showing street artist Banksy’s most recent mural outside the Royal Courts of Justice have been edited to include the St George’s and Union Jack flags.

Edited photos of Banksy’s most recent mural at the Royal Courts of Justice, before it was partly removed, are circulating online.

They show a person holding a St George’s or Union Jack flag, but in the actual mural the person was holding a placard: fullfact.org/culture-and-...

"A wee bit tardy" 9 September 2025: Confirmation of Charges Hearings for an Absent Joseph Kony

Today is Day 2 of the #ICC’s Confirmation of Charges hearing re: Joseph #Kony, and LRA violence in #Uganda

Yesterday’s sessions were marked, shaped, and shadowed by a sense of absence: physical, geographical, and historical.

I jotted down some observations: lucygaynor.substack.com/p/a-wee-bit-...

I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night

Today in 1914 the first British soldier fired a shot in the First World War.

Alhaji Grunshi, of the Gold Coast Regiment, opened fire while invading German held Togoland.

Absolutely incredible scenes in Italy over the (formerly BBC) Good Food website's cacio e pepe recipe

British ambassador contacted, Italian journalists seething

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How Strong Is Your Vocabulary? - Word Game | Merriam-Webster Take our 10-question quiz to find out — and maybe learn some new words along the way.

How STRONG is your vocabulary?
www.merriam-webster.com/games/vocabu...

⚖️ Le parquet antiterroriste français a annoncé lundi requérir un nouveau mandat d'arrêt international contre l'ex-président syrien Bachar al-Assad pour des attaques chimiques mortelles en 2013 en Syrie, après l'annulation par la justice vendredi d'un premier mandat d'arrêt.

⚫️ La Direction de l’AFP partage l’angoisse exprimée par la SDJ quant à la situation effroyable de ses collaborateurs dans la bande de Gaza ⬇️

Paper copies of UJAR 2025 at its launch in April in The Hague.

🔎 TRIAL International is looking for a consultant to coordinate, research and draft the 2026 edition of the #UniversalJurisdiction Annual Review (UJAR).

📌 Deadline for the submissions of tenders: 10 August 2025

More information on our website 👉 trialinternational.org/latest-post/...

#SRE2025 wraps up today in Warsaw. From opening remarks to moderating expert panels, our CEO Alessia Melasecche Germini states: “SRE is where policy meets innovation to shape Europe’s security future”. Read our full recap 👉 www.meta-group.com/news/meta-gr...

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk Digital News Report 2025

🚨 @reutersinstitute.bsky.social #DigitalNewsReport2025 takeaways:

📱 Social media now beats TV as top news source for under-35s
🎙️ Influencers like Joe Rogan rival mainstream outlets
🤖 1 in 6 young people use AI chatbots for news
📉 Trust & interest keep dropping

🔗 https://twp.ai/9PTkb4

Five ways to keep teenagers safe by the water Talking to teenagers about safety isn’t easy. Here’s how to do it in a way that’s honest, effective and grounded in care.

Talking to teenagers about safety isn’t easy. Here’s how to do it in a way that’s honest, effective and grounded in care.

Cerys Matthews - Bloomsday special: James Joyce's Ulysses - BBC Sounds Cerys celebrates Bloomsday and explores the world of James Joyce's Ulysses.

For those with an interest in #Ulysses & #Bloomsday (16 June) check out @cerysmatthews.bsky.social’s
celebration of James Joyce’s novel. The segment in which I feature begins @ 2 hours, but don’t miss Angeline Ball’s rendition of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy at the end. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The cover of the original 1922 edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, plus my own 2022 book, Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey.

‘But it’s no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life.
What, says Alf
Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.’
My favourite quote from #Ulysses #Bloomsday

Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation? - bellingcat We tasked LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI to geolocate our unpublished holiday snaps. Here's how they did.

We all know AI models can now create realistic images and videos but how do they fare at identifying where a real image was taken? Bellingcat researchers have put Large Language Models to the test: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

‘Free reign’ or ‘free rein’?

‘Free rein’ is the one that means unrestricted liberty of action or decision.

It comes from horseback riding and refers to holding the reins that control the horse loosely so as to allow the horse to freely move along at its own pace/direction.

You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

Kabinet wil geen harde regels voor overheidsgebruik Amerikaanse clouds NSC en GroenLinks-PvdA willen een minimum van 30 procent voor Europese leveranciers, maar daar ziet het kabinet weinig in.

Kabinet wil geen harde regels voor overheidsgebruik Amerikaanse clouds

British woman in France regains right to vote in European elections - Europe Street News A British woman living in France has regained the right to vote in the EU Parliament election, a right that she had lost after Brexit.

NEW: A British woman who has lived in France since 1984 has won back the right to vote in the European Parliament election, a right associated to EU citizenship that she had lost after Brexit. What does it mean for other UK citizens in France? europestreet.news/british-woma...

2/2 - 🔎 Can you identify any of these items? Even the smallest tip could help.

⚠️ Our #TraceAnObject website has new images taken from files depicting child sexual abuse.

💡 You can help us move these investigations forward by submitting an anonymous tip.

Go to www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse

1/2 - 🔎 Can you identify any of these items? Even the smallest tip could help.

⚠️ Our #TraceAnObject website has new images taken from files depicting child sexual abuse.

💡 You can help us move these investigations forward by submitting an anonymous tip.

Go to www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse

🚨 Newsletter alert! 📰 This month, JRR launched its 2024 annual report! Last year, we completed a total of 103 expert deployments across 25 countries across the globe! Take a moment to dive into 11 impact stories to better understand how JRR supports justice and accountability initiatives.

Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might What made the US step back from the system that it profited handsomely from for decades?

LONG READ
From David Ricardo to Alexander Hamilton to David Autor to the “sum of all cheating” to the equation that tariffs penguins, to loaded guns & game theory.

Another BBC InDepth trying to explain what’s on earth is going on and where it’s going….

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚄 Le groupe italien Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), qui détient la compagnie ferroviaire Trenitalia, a annoncé son intention d'ouvrir une liaison à grande vitesse entre Paris et Londres d'ici 2029, pour venir concurrencer Eurostar, unique opérateur à emprunter le tunnel sous la Manche.

End of eternal ice: Many glaciers will not survive this century, climate scientists say Glaciers in many regions will not survive the 21st century if they keep melting at the current rate, potentially jeopardising hundreds of millions of people living downstream, UN climate experts said ...

news.un.org/en/story/202...

Jihadisme: autour des enfants revenus en France, un long travail de vérité.
➡️ u.afp.com/Sosv