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Video. The fire broke out at 2 am on Thursday on the seventh and top floor of an apartment block in the Moulins district, located in the west of the city. Source link

Euronews Health has compiled a list of five common items you should avoid using that contain toxic PFAS, or “forever chemicals”. ADVERTISEMENTPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as “forever chemicals,” are used across various industries, from electronics to aerospace. However, they have also found their way into everyday consumer products, raising public concern due to their harmful effects on people’s health.”PFAS are these man-made chemicals, they don’t occur naturally, we have to make them in the lab,” Dr Shelley Liu, associate professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the US, told Euronews Health. “They are really…

Water MattersEurope’s water is under increasing pressure. Pollution, droughts, floods are taking their toll on our drinking water, lakes, rivers and coastlines. Join us on a journey around Europe to see why protecting ecosystems matters, how our wastewater can be better managed, and to discover some of the best water solutions. Video reports, an animated explainer series and live debate – find out why Water Matters, from Euronews. Source link

Biden, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, has repeatedly said he’s not backing down, adamant that he’s the candidate who beat Trump before and can do so again. Source link

Greens emerge as kingmakers as von der Leyen vows to keep the centrist coalition strong. ADVERTISEMENTPro-European forces celebrated the comfortable re-election of Ursula von der Leyen in Strasbourg’s European Parliament on Thursday.Von der Leyen relied mainly on allies to her left to secure a second term as European Commission chief – and not, as was once expected, on hard-right Conservatives.In a vote that over recent weeks has looked too close to call, von der Leyen took a majority of 41, even wider than when she first assumed the role in 2019. Crucially, she did so by relying on broad support…

Some craters on the Moon in permanent shadow are also believed to hold frozen water that can provide drinking water and fuel for future missions. ADVERTISEMENTA cave has been discovered on the Moon not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago, raising hopes that there could be hundreds more that could house future astronauts.An Italian-led team reported earlier this week that there’s evidence for a sizable cave accessible from the deepest known pit on the Moon. It’s located at the Sea of Tranquility, just 400 km from Apollo 11’s landing site.The pit, like the more…

A year and a half after its liberation from Russian forces, residents are slowly returning to Kamianka, a village in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. ADVERTISEMENTNot a single house in the village survived, and a year and a half after the liberation, there is still no electricity, but 39 families have returned to live in Kamianka in the Kharkiv Oblast. Before the full-scale war, more than a thousand people lived in this village near Izium, but almost all of them left in 2022, when there were battles for Kamianka and it fell under occupation, says the village’s council leader Yevhenii…

Attack in the 8th arrondissement comes as the French capital is already on high security alert days before the July 26 opening of the Summer Olympics. Source link

Yaël Braun-Pivet of Macron’s centrist party is reelected as new President of the National Assembly with 220 votes. Source link

The company already faced data protection complaints in several EU countries. ADVERTISEMENTUS tech giant Meta will not roll-out multimodel AI models – so-called virtual assistants – in Europe due to regulatory unpredictability, a company spokesperson confirmed to Euronews today (18 July).“We will release a multimodal Llama model over the coming months, but not in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment,” a Meta spokesperson said.The news, first reported by Axios, comes as the company had already paused the roll-out of its AI assistant in Europe after the Irish Data Protection Commission told Meta to postpone its…