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The European Union has said it "strongly regrets" a fresh move by US president Donald Trump to double import tariffs on steel and aluminium to 50 percent, warning the decision risks derailing efforts to resolve an escalating trade dispute with the United States. The new tariffs took effect on Wednesday.

It is the largest habitat on Earth – and also the least explored. As world leaders prepare to meet in Nice for a major UN summit on the ocean's future, scientists say we still know remarkably little about what lies beneath the waves.

Inter Milan head coach Simone Inzaghi quit on Tuesday less than three days after Paris Saint-Germain humiliated his side 5-0 to claim the 2025 Champions League.

Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka moved into the semis and for the first time in Paris so did Lorenzo Musetti. Awaiting the Italian? The Spaniard.

The consumer association UFC-Que Choisir announced Tuesday that it has launched several legal actions in response to what it calls the Nestlé mineral water "scandal". It accuses the company of deceiving consumers and has condemned the lack of "action" on behalf of public authorities.

French Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Tuesday he wanted tougher punishments for anyone found guilty of "violence" against law enforcement officers, after arrests this weekend during Champion's League football celebrations.

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has confirmed the collapse of the Dutch government following the withdrawal of Geert Wilders' far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) from the coalition.

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau is meeting Tuesday with the Tunisian ambassador to France following the murder of a Tunisian man by one of his neighbours at the weekend that is being investigated by anti-terrorism police as a hate crime.

Turkish authorities are intensifying their crackdown on Istanbul's imprisoned mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu. The move comes as İmamoğlu, despite his incarceration, remains President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s principal political rival, with protests continuing over his arrest.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called for a parliamentary confidence vote in a bid to demonstrate continuing support for his pro-EU government after nationalist Karol Nawrocki won the presidential election.

The French parliament on Monday backed a bill that would promote Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, to the rank of brigadier general, an act of reparation for one of the most notorious acts of antisemitism in the country's history.