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Fight for the light or betray your allies in the new Fire Emblem Shadows smart device game, available now!

Official Fire Emblem Shadows website: https://shadows.nintendo.com/

Download here: iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id6746113513 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nintendo.zaha

I can't take away the eraser or give it to him only when he asks, because I have more students.

He's impulsive but nice. His parents know he does stuff like that.

Any ideas?

Having exhausted a failed policy of appeasement, the US president may at last be ready to put pressure on Moscow

Are there any attempts to reproduce the icon styles, or just a description of them? I already knew some attempts to reproduce the "refraction" effects of Liquid Glass. This is on iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe.

With just weeks to go until the international climate conference, nations are stepping up to submit new climate targets for 2035. But will they be enough to prevent a climate catastrophe?

British authorities detained a man in his 40s over a series of cyberattacks that grounded flights at major European airports. Such attacks against transport hubs are on the rise.

Europe faces a new challenge: Trump’s America is exporting its culture wars into the EU. From meddling in elections to humiliating trade and defence deals, MAGA is reshaping Europe’s politics. But a new report argues Europe can fight back—with unity, confidence, and its own values. In this video, we unpack Trump’s culture war, Europe’s response, and what’s at stake for the EU’s future.

In the fall of 2014, Sweden became the first western EU country to recognise the state of Palestine. The small Nordic nation had hoped to spark a European-wide tide of recognitions. Instead, it found itself isolated – and left to pay a steep price in its diplomatic relations with Israel. More than a decade on, here is what France and other Western states who have recently followed suit can learn from Sweden's experience.

A French court on Thursday sentenced former president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years of prison for accepting illegal campaign funds from late Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy was convicted of criminal conspiracy but was acquitted of other charges.

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European Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi on Thursday signalled his openness to a taxation system on products high in sugar, fat, and salt to help finance public health during a meeting with the European Parliament’s health committee.

Asked by Renew MEP Vlad Voiculescu about his thoughts on taxing highly processed food, the commissioner concluded that it is “something we can reflect on” within the framework of the Commission’s cardiovascular health plan.

“We need a good measurement tool, because we’ve had these debates and, in general, they always end up in an ideological discussion about depriving people of their choices, about imposing conditions on industries, rather than about protecting public health,” Várhelyi said.

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US airstrikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea are an "act of tyranny", Colombia's President Gustavo Petro told the BBC in an interview where he also called for criminal proceedings against US officials if investigations find Colombians were killed in the attacks.

Donald Trump has cast the strikes, which have reportedly killed 17 since they began this month, as needed to stop the flow of fentanyl and other illegal narcotics into the US.

Legal experts and lawmakers, though, have questioned if they violate international human rights laws.

"Why launch a missile if you could simply stop the boat and arrest the crew?" said Petro. "That's what one would call murder."

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/38047757

Donald Trump is suddenly bullish when it comes to Ukraine’s chances of repelling Russia’s invasion and regaining all its territory, yet the shift in rhetoric means little unless he is prepared to ramp up pressure on the Kremlin, diplomats and foreign officials say.

Thus far, Trump hasn’t taken these essential steps, they added.

https://archive.ph/2025.09.25-100130/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-25/sap-hit-by-eu-antitrust-probe-into-software-support-practices