Venezuela's opposition leaders on Monday (5 August) appealed to the army, the main pillar of support for President Nicolás Maduro, to turn on him and "take the side of the people" after his disputed reelection.

Digital technologies are transforming urban governance. European cities leverage Local Digital Twins and Platforms for smart transition, but face strategic, procurement, and implementation challenges. European Commission initiatives can help bridge the digital divide and promote inclusive and smarter urban environments.

A Polish man will stand trial in Denmark on Tuesday (6 August) over an attack on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in central Copenhagen in early June, facing charges of assaulting a public official.

Chinese tech giants including Huawei and Baidu as well as startups are stockpiling high bandwidth memory (HBM) semiconductors from Samsung Electronics in anticipation of US curbs on exports of the chips to China, three sources said.

The British government said on Monday (5 August) officials were examining the role foreign states had played in amplifying disinformation online which had helped fuel violent protests, while warning social media firms they had to do more to stop it.

At least five US personnel were injured in an attack against a military base in Iraq on Monday (5 August), US officials said, as the Middle East braced for a possible new wave of attacks by Iran and its allies.

Bangladesh's military was in control of the country on Tuesday (6 August) after mass protests forced longtime ruler Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee.

A Russian pianist and anti-war activist has died in prison after going on hunger strike, his mother said, in what the European Union called a shocking case of political repression.

Israeli’s policy of strategic ambiguity over its nuclear weapons arsenal makes it “difficult to know” how close the current crisis in the Middle East is to escalating into a nuclear war, a leading anti-nuclear weapons group has warned.

Consumer organisations allege X's artificial intelligence (AI) tool is in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in a complaint filed with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Monday (5 August).

Tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EV) will likely boost investments in new European factories, which is good news but could also undermine Europe’s industrial base, to address this challenge the EU needs to strengthen and unify its investment rules, writes Tobias Gehrke.

A revised version of the EU’s rules on industrial emissions came into force on Sunday (4 July), extending to more livestock farms than previous legislation.

Former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, says he plans to return to Spain for the inauguration of the new regional head, socialist Salvador Illa, despite facing likely arrest, amid heightened political tensions.

TikTok can no longer launch rewards programmes for its EU users, following binding measures that the European Commission announced on Monday (5 August).

Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström opened the door to new EU sanctions against Chinese companies, accused of circumventing EU sanctions against Russia, to export goods via third countries into the country.

For the last five years, the German FDP has been the leader of a rebellious minority within the EU Parliament's liberal group, but this term the former outliers could exert greater influence over the direction of a fragmented Renew Europe.

The Philippines and Germany on Sunday (4 August) committed to signing a defence cooperation arrangement this year, vowing to uphold international rules-based order in the region as tensions flare over disputed areas of the South China Sea.

The far-right favourites to win Austria's next election have forged an alliance with Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán that could deepen defiance of Brussels and threaten already fragile consensus over the Ukraine war if they take power.

Two of the Russian dissidents who were freed from prison and arrived in Germany as part of last week's major East-West prisoner swap say they are already thinking about returning to Russia, but vow to continue political activism even from abroad.

The US Commerce Department is expected to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous and connected vehicles in the coming weeks, according to sources briefed on the matter.