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Heavy rain and flooding in Spain leaves thousands without electricity

01:00 Intense rain caused flooding in eastern Spain, forcing dozens of people to be rescued by emergency workers from their homes, cars and campgrounds on Wednesday.High temperatures an

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Shell plans to double electric car charging points in the UK by 2050

The Shell logo reflected in the side mirror of a car in London in January 2015. /Reuters/ Toby Melville Royal Dutch Shell will install 50,000 new electric car charging points in the UK by 2050

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Firefighters stop wildfires from burning down a power plant in Turkey

01:19 On Wednesday night, Sadik Akin slept out in the open air in southwest Turkey after fleeing the wildfires that have devastated large parts of the country.He was one of the workers

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EU tells UK it 'will not renegotiate' the Northern Ireland protocol

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was unmoved by British requests to renegotiate the Northern Ireland protocol. /Pascal Rossignol/Reuters The European Union "will not renegoti

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Russia and U.S. attempt to coordinate response to climate change

01:00 U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is meeting with Russian officials in Moscow, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, to discuss potential joint action on climate change.Kerry arri

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Czechia opens its first drive-through vaccination center

00:52 Some people in Czechia are getting their COVID-19 vaccinations in an unique way - at a drive-through.The center, which is the first of its kind in the country, was opened by a pri

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Chaos at UK port as thousands stranded despite French border opening

A police officer directing traffic in Dover, UK after France temporarily closed its border with the country on Sunday. /AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth/ The border between France and the UK has opened

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Birth rate drops to all-time low in England and Wales

In 1960, there were 2.57 children born for every woman in the Europe. In 2018, there was only 1.54 children born per woman. The first half of 2020 marks the eighth consecutive year that birth

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Polish protesters gain support against strict abortion ban

01:08 Support for pro-choice protesters in Poland has grown as demonstrations continue into an eighth day, with even the president stepping back some of his support for the country's c

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny now able to walk and talk

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny shown walking down stairs at Charite hospital in Berlin. /Reuters Russian opposition leaderAlexei Navalny has regained the ability to walk and talk aft

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Medicane: Rare hurricane-like storm hits Greece

01:00 Winds, floods and power outages have been caused by a rare hurricane-like storm in Greece, which has also endangered a group of migrants stranded in a boat.A Mediterranean cyclon

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Scientists can now float a boat on levitating liquid

00:55 Scientist have done what was once thought impossible, they have floated a toy boat upside down on levitating liquid, and they did it by accident.The liquid is made from silicon o

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Europe's largest carnival goes online for the first time

01:20 Notting Hill Carnival is moving online for the first time in its 54-year history because of COVID-19.It is one of the world's largest carnivals, second to only Brazil's Rio Carni

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Stranded Banksy migrant rescue boat gets help in Mediterranean

01:17 The Italian coast guard has rescued 49 of the 219 people stranded on a rescue boat off the coast of Libya.The boat was funded by the British artist Banksy, and is still stranded

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The pill turns 60: How far have contraceptives come in Europe?

There are at least 15 different types of contraceptives now available. /VCG/ For women before the birth control pill was introduced in the 1960s, there was little they could do to take control

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Saving Beirut's pets, left homeless after the blast

04:22 Just two hours after the explosion that rocked through Beirut last week, volunteers started to go through the wreckage near the city's port to look for traumatized pets that were

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Can cannabis shrink the garment industry's carbon footprint?

03:14 For thousands of years, cannabis has been grown for reasons other than drugs.George Washington, the first president of the U.S., grew the plant on his farm to make products such