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European lawmakers face a decision on whether ordinary consumers would be confused by the idea of vegetarian sausages or vegan burgers. Meat producers say it's not that simple.

As per Firefox translation Swedish to English (original article in Swedish, based on Danish newspaper reports that are behind a paywall). Article at risknet.xyz contains links to sources.

In a historic change, the United States is identified for the first time as a security threat in Danish intelligence service DDIS's annual threat picture report. The report, published in early December, highlights that the United States, along with other major powers such as Russia and China, is using its economic and technological power to influence smaller states – even its allies.

The report marks a clear departure from previous Danish security policy analyses, where the U.S. has been regarded as a guarantor of Denmark and Europe's security throughout the post-war period. Now the United States is instead highlighted as an actor whose actions partially undermine the rules-based international order.

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“It hurts deep into the soul to read the report. It’s a worldview that’s put on end,” [Kristian Mouritzen] says.

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Police officers in western Germany made a shock discovery after they noticed a woman using her phone in the driver's seat. It turned out that someone else was behind the wheel.

A police patrol in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate made a shocking discovery after they came across a driver who appeared to be typing on her mobile phone.

While such behaviour would already be hazardous, what they saw on closer inspection stunned officers. A toddler, less than two years old, was sitting on her lap with both hands on the steering wheel.

According to police, the woman showed no understanding of the risk. She insisted that the child had not been feeling well and that she was simply driving to a fast-food restaurant.

In 2023, a prolific donor to a Danish sperm bank was found to carry a genetic mutation that can contribute to childhood cancers. Some parents were never warned, an investigation by DW and European partners has found.

Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential.

The authoritative World Inequality Report 2026, based on data compiled by 200 researchers, also found that the top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% combined, while the poorest half captures less than 10% of total global earnings.

Wealth – the value of people’s assets – was even more concentrated than income, or earnings from work and investments, the report found, with the richest 10% of the world’s population owning 75% of wealth and the bottom half just 2%.

In almost every region, the top 1% was wealthier than the bottom 90% combined, the report found, with wealth inequality increasing rapidly around the world.

“The result is a world in which a tiny minority commands unprecedented financial power, while billions remain excluded from even basic economic stability,” the authors, led by Ricardo Gómez-Carrera of the Paris School of Economics, wrote.

During Donald Trump’s first administration, commentators sagely advised that his words, were to be “taken seriously, not literally”. Experience suggests that formula puts the cart before the horse.

A new US National Security Strategy and a series of comments from US officials, presidential proxies and Trump himself, have culminated in what could be one of the most profound crises for Atlanticism, the security doctrine that has sustained peace and democracy in Europe since the end of the second world war.

Where Trump’s point of departure was once the failure of Europe to contribute sufficiently to its own security, he has now embraced a more alarming vision.

Coloured both by racism and a staggering contempt for Europe’s political institutions and leaders, he has warned of the risk of civilisational collapse on a continent he barely knows, and that he has viewed more often from the window of an armoured sedan.

The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is “safe” and “will be” in Oslo after “a journey in a situation of extreme danger,” although she will not attend the Nobel peace prize ceremony this afternoon, organisers have said.

Machado has been seen only once in public since going into hiding in August last year amid a tense showdown with the president, Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela’s attorney general has said Machado, 58, would be considered a “fugitive” if she left the country to accept the award.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy appears to blow up some of the key principles behind 80 years of European collective defence, challenging the foundation of the continent’s relationship with the country.

But on whether the White House will — or even can — follow through on many of its more radical or transformative demands, many European capitals will likely need more convincing.

In a blistering attack, Trump’s new policy portrays Europe’s governments as weak and ineffective. Migration has destroyed the continent’s self-confidence, it claims, accusing the European Union of contributing to a loss of national sovereignty, weakened political freedoms and the diminished effectiveness of individual nation states.

Not a word is mentioned of Russia being an adversary — or the instigator of a horrific, ongoing war against its neighbour Ukraine.

The document does not say the U.S. core interest should be the defeat of Russia and the return of Ukraine’s territories, but rather that it should seek to restore “strategic stability" with Russia.

If you've ever been catcalled late at night, you may be familiar with the stress response it can spark. Your defensive guard can go up and leave you feeling physically shaken and vulnerable.

All my female friends have had such experiences, and all of us have at one point or another walked home in the dark holding our keys in our hands. I even joined a karate club at university, in case the worst should happen, and through repeated drills learnt how to efficiently throw an opponent to the ground and hit the right pressure point to cause pain.

When unwanted sexual attention isn't immediately threatening, however, it is often shrugged off and ignored. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have a lasting psychological effect. Research now shows even everyday acts of sexism can have repercussions that stretch throughout people's bodies and lives.

If anyone ever tries to claim that China is the world's biggest polluter, show them this graph. We don't even need to get into the per capita statistics or the fact that China is the world's factory and the West has effectively outsourced much of their own pollution to China over the past 40 years. The US alone is responsible for almost double the cumulative historic emissions of China. And taken together the "collective West", despite making up a fraction of the global population is responsible for the overwhelming majority of the entire world's cumulative historic emissions.

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This is an excellent report.

It's truly shocking that Britain is one of the only nations in the West where corporations are allowed to wire money to political parties, even if the shareholders aren't british.