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Russia Abandons Missile Moratorium, Warns of Retaliation Over US Deployment Plans in Europe

Arise News · August 5, 2025

Russia has formally declared an end to its self-imposed moratorium on deploying nuclear-capable intermediate-range missiles, a move that significantly heightens tensions with the United States and raises the specter of a new global arms race. In a...

Tesla Sales in the UK and Germany fall, while China’s BYD grows

Sarajevo Times · August 5, 2025

US electric vehicle (EV) giant Tesla saw sales plummet in Europe’s two biggest car markets in July, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) and Germany’s KBA. New vehicle registrations fell by around 60...

Novel Tuberculosis Shots May Benefit HIV-Positive Population

Medscape ·

TOPLINE: A two-dose regimen of the M72/AS01E-4, a recombinant fusion protein tuberculosis vaccine candidate, demonstrated acceptable safety and immunogenicity in virally suppressed, antiretroviral therapy (ART)-treated adolescents and adults...

NSF invests $100 million in new U.S. AI research institutes – global context and technology-company dynamics

R&D Magazine · August 5, 2025

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $100 million investment, made jointly with Capital One and Intel, to fund five National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes and a community hub. The goal of the pact is to enable the...

Francis Ford Coppola Shares Update After Hospitalization in Italy: ‘I Am Well!’

Rolling Stone · August 5, 2025

The director was scheduled to undergo a long-planned surgery, but reportedly suffered atrial fibrillation before entering the operating room Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola “is fine” after he was taken to a hospital in Calabria, Italy,...

Vácrátót Garden Wins Spot on Europe’s Map of Historic Landscapes

Hungary Today · August 5, 2025

The National Botanical Garden in Vácrátót (close to Budapest) has earned a distinguished spot on the European Route of Historic Gardens, becoming the fourth Hungarian site to be included in the prestigious cultural network, reports the Hungarian...

Claude Opus 4.1 boosts AI coding and research with 64K context and SWE-bench leaderboard gains

R&D Magazine · August 5, 2025

Another week, another AI model drop (or maybe at least two). While OpenAI is rumored to imminently launch GPT-5, its much-delayed successor to GPT-4 that gave way to a smattering of successors, Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.1, which...

VFS Global renews contract for Germany visa services across the Middle East; adds four new locations to the network

MENAFN · August 5, 2025

(MENAFN- VFS Global) VFS Global’s Germany Visa Application Centre network extended to 72 locations worldwide The German Federal Foreign Office has renewed its contract with VFS Global in the Middle East for an additional seven years. Under this...

Uruguay's population projected to decline over time

MercoPress ·

Tuesday, August 5th 2025 - 21:26 UTC A smaller population could decrease housing demand in major cities like Montevideo A study released this week by Uruguay's National Institute of Statistics (INE) showed that the South American country's...

How the US-EU trade deal could affect the EU and what's positive for Ukraine

European Pravda ·

On 27 July, just days before Donald Trump's deadline for imposing unilateral "reciprocal" tariffs, the EU and the US reached a trade agreement. And this is one of the few trade deals Donald Trump has concluded so far. These agreements are of an...

Tánaiste raises case of Gena Heraty with EU's Kaja Kallas

RTE Ireland · August 5, 2025

Tánaiste Simon Harris has raised the kidnapping of Irish citizen Gena Heraty in Haiti with the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas. Ms Heraty and seven other people who were kidnapped by a gang two days...

Policy Updates: EU Suspends Planned Tariff Retaliation

Profarmer · August 5, 2025

Vast Supplies of U.S. Aid Remain Stranded, Despite State Department Promises: “DESTROY” stickers were affixed this week to hundreds of cases of U.S.-branded food aid — 15,000 pounds’ worth — that have languished for months in a Georgia warehouse...

How the US began dismantling the system it created and what the EU should do

European Pravda ·

Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has slashed foreign aid and weaponized the United States’ economic power to bully long-standing allies In a matter of months, both the international role and global standing of the United States...

Montana State Plant Scientist Chaofu Lu Receives Fulbright For Research In France

The Roundup - Montana · August 5, 2025

Chaofu Lu, a professor in MSU’s Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, will spend the spring semester of 2026 in France with the support of a recent Fulbright Scholar Award. (MSU photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez) BOZEMAN – Montana State...

What nuclear weapons look like today - and how a city as big as London could be wiped out instantly

Sky News · August 5, 2025

Eighty years ago today, an American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the dawn of the atomic age, but the birth of the bomb can be traced beyond the deserts of New Mexico to Britain, five years earlier. A...

Ricola appoints Ann Nee Lim as Senior Account Manager Europe Travel Retail

The Moodie Davitt Report · August 5, 2025

“I am excited to be joining the fabulous team at Ricola and starting a new chapter in my travel retail career” – Ann Nee LimRicola has named Ann Nee Lim as Senior Account Manager Europe Travel Retail. Lim brings over two decades of international...

Tesla sales in Britain plummet 60% to less than 1,000 new cars amid Musk backlash and waning EV growth

This Is Money · August 5, 2025

By MIKE SHEEN, BUSINESS EDITOR Updated: 09:47 EDT, 5 August 2025 Sales of new Tesla electric cars plummeted below 1,000 units last month, as demand across Europe deteriorates and EV growth stalls. Figures published by industry body Society of...

[Adrian Wooldridge] Britain faces a long, hot and nervous summer

Korea Herald · August 5, 2025

There is an ominous sense in the air in Britain -- a sense that the country is headed toward the rocks and that the captain has no idea how to steer the ship. This feeling is vague, but vague feelings can sometimes tell us more about the future...

Fraudulent research is 'destroying trust in science'

Deutsche Welle · August 5, 2025

Fraudulent scientific research is on the rise and it is jeopardizing medical research, experts have warned. A new study has found that networks of bad actors work together to publish bogus research. The findings, published in the journal PNAS,...

Network payment tokenization revenue set to grow to $7 billion by 2032, ABI Research finds

The Green Sheet - California ·

Tuesday, August 05, 2025 — 15:16:19 (UTC) NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Business models are adapting to keep pace with emerging players and evolving trends in the payment tokenization market, generating upselling and development...