Meta Proposes Online Teen Protection Plan to EU Commission

The new European Union packaging regulation, effective 12 August, introduces immediate chemical safety and compliance duties, advancing a transition to more recyclable, reusable, and less wasteful packaging. Businesses now face documentation requirements, and food-contact packaging containing PFAS above specific limits is banned from the EU market.
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MEPs have welcomed moves to fill a “vacuum” that they say left children “unprotected.”
Since previous rules expired, EU tech platforms have been legally barred from voluntarily flagging child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
But centre right MEPs say this created an “unprecedented online blind spot “with as many as 55,000 reports of child abuse missed every single day.
Historically, up to 99% of re

Wednesday’s rare event will bring totality to Greenland, Iceland, Spain and a corner of Portugal as authorities urge safe viewing and careful travel
On Wednesday, 12 August, a total solar eclipse will traverse parts of Europe and the North Atlantic, briefly plunging Greenland, western Iceland, much of northern Spain, and a small section of northeastern Portugal into darkness. A partial eclipse w

Infantino has faced intense criticism and calls to resign after it was revealed he intended to create a new company separate from the Swiss-based nonprofit in charge of international football. FIFA Forward Enterprise would have controlled the commercial rights to FIFA events, encompassing broadcasting, sponsorship, ticketing, licensing, and related businesses.
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Filippo La Vecchia is widely recognised as one of Brussels’ top Italian chefs. But his rise to the top has been from easy – he’s had to overcome everything from a health pandemic and economic crises to terrorist attacks on the city.
Osteria Romana, located at the top of  the city’s fashionable Avenue Louise, has built a fine reputation in the near 15 years since it opened.
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Using Certified Glasses and Indirect Methods Safely During Eclipses
Observing a solar eclipse safely requires more than regular sunglasses or makeshift filters. Certified solar eclipse glasses or safe indirect viewing methods are essential during partial and annular eclipse phases. Direct viewing without protection is only safe during the brief totality phase of a total eclipse, when the Moon co

Three fishing vessels are “constantly patrolling off the coast of the plant” to conduct “preventive fishing operations 24/7,” the company stated.
Tuesday’s jellyfish invasion is the latest in a series of climate change-driven incidents impacting French nuclear energy during a particularly intense summer.
Nuclear power plants are typically situated by rivers or coastli

Failure by the international community to respond to perceived attacks on the sovereignty of other nations risks sending the wrong signal.
That was a message from the former Finnish Prime Minister of Finland at an event in Taiwan.
Sanna Marin was speaking at the opening of the 10th Ketagalan Forum in the Taiwanese capital.
The event, hosted by the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ta

A “commission” of international experts reveals how unexamined narratives led to an international miscarriage of justice.
A new collection of studies on the prolonged and troubled saga of Konstantin Rudnev and Ashram Shambhala emerges at a time when public discussions about minority spiritualities are driven more by repeated claims than actual knowledge. Following earlier discussions in “Bitter