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In a case, the United Nations' highest court said countries must to slash emissions or risk having to pay off nations that are hard hit by climate change.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed the advisory opinion as a that shows the "power of young people to make a difference".

European countries have tightened migration policies this year, with more changes expected, despite a 38% drop in illegal migrant entries last year to the lowest level since 2021.

Elections this year have seen far-right, anti-migration parties grow in popularity and immigration remains a politically charged topic in the bloc's 27 member states.

Dehumanised and disposable is how Amazon workers in Poland, Germany and France described how they felt working in the online retail giant's warehouses.

"You are no longer Julie or Ludovic, you are number 412, and you can be replaced by number 313," El Djoudi Laouedj, an area manager and trade union member at Amazon's Lauwin-Planque warehouse in France told Context.

As hundreds of firefighters battled fast-moving wildfires just outside the French city of , experts warned the risk to other European urban centres was rising as suburbs expand into forested areas and climate change drives hotter, drier summers.

More than twice as many urban areas in Europe are at risk of wildfires than in either North America or Asia, according to a May report by the European Academies Science Advisory Council, which advises European policymakers.

Content moderators from the Philippines to Turkey are uniting to push for greater mental health support to help them cope with the psychological effects of exposure to a rising tide of disturbing images online.

The people tasked with removing harmful content from tech giants like Meta Platforms or TikTok, report a range of noxious health effects from loss of appetite to anxiety and suicidal thoughts.

Every year, more than 1,000 wildfires burn through hundreds of thousands of , releasing planet-warming gases and turning climate-saving assets to ashes.

With woodlands spanning almost 40% of Europe's total land area, the fastest-warming continent is to fight blazes as climate change drives hotter and drier weather, which is expected to by 2100.

Britain's lawmakers have voted to following concerns over a growing number of police investigations into women ending late pregnancies.

While abortion has been legal for almost 60 years, women in England and Wales can be prosecuted if they terminate a pregnancy after 24 weeks under an 1861 law that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

Starving patients begging for food in shattered hospitals, doctors pushed to the brink, surviving on one meal a day, trying to treat injuries without medicines - this was the testimony of two Doctors without Borders' staff recently returned from Gaza.

They spoke after their NGO sent an open letter to European Union leaders this week, urging the bloc to act now to pressure Israel to stop attacks in Gaza and open the borders to aid.

More than a million people have backed a Europe-wide ban on "conversion therapy", boosting European Union efforts to outlaw outdated and discredited practices that aim to change a person's sexuality or gender identity.

The petition’s run counter to a rise in anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment in many parts of the EU, which has been accused of failing to do enough to protect gay rights.

As the popularity of social media and messaging apps grows, so does the volume of child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, on the internet, and 2024 was the , a new report shows.

European Union countries host more than 60% of child sexual abuse web pages identified in the last year, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), prompting calls for better regulations and reporting tools to protect potential victims.