Who cares about war and sanctions, as long as business can continue as normal?
A year-long investigation traces Indonesian nickel from a biodiversity sanctuary and indigenous homeland, through Chinese factories, to the batteries powering Europe top automaker’s electric cars – and those of its rivals – exposing the hidden cost of the automotive industry’s green transition.
Air-raid sirens interrupting chemotherapy, bombed pharmaceutical warehouses, and a three-hospital waiting list for a scan that expires within hours. For Ukraine's cancer patients, the war has turned an already gruelling ordeal into something close to impossible.
Seventy-three-year-old Vasyl Berezka and his wife, Liudmyla, barely managed to escape Oleshky, a city in the temporarily occupied part of Kherson Oblast that has been almost impossible to leave since late May 2026. No food is being brought into the city, medical supplies are nearly exhausted and residents are on the brink of starvation.
Poland's labour inspectorate is set to issue a report on Ryanair Sun before year's end. The low-cost airline is offering flight-attendant positions in Prague, Budapest and Warsaw, but on self-employed contracts. The complaint by its Polish staff reflects a wider problem. How to enforce labour law at the European level?
Spanish F-18s are now shooting down Russian drones over Romania. On NATO's eastern flank – largely ignored while the world watches the Baltics – the war in Ukraine has never felt so close.
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