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The robot vacuum specialist iRobot is updating its smart home range with a new household cleaner that can dodges cables, circumnavigate dog poo and mop around your rugs. Robot hoovers are notorious for choking themselves on the likes of smartphone cabl…

One person has died during a police intervention in the Antwerp district of Merksem on Wednesday morning, Belgian news agency Belga reported. “A dozen searches were carried out on Wednesday, mainly in the Antwerp region, as part of an investigation int…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is in favour of granting asylum to Russian conscientious objectors. “I am in favour of offering these people protection,” Scholz told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper. “Of course, they have to go through a se…

The European Union believes sabotage is the likely cause of leaks from the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines and is threatening countermeasures, its top diplomat says on behalf of all member states. “The European Union is deeply concerned about damage …

Three people were seriously injured in an explosion in the centre of the German city of Halle on Tuesday, police said. The explosion happened around 6 pm (1600 GMT) in the public toilets on the city’s market square, in a historic building that houses a…

The governments of Denmark and Sweden said they suspected acts of sabotage after three leaks were discovered on the Nord Stream pipelines that carry gas from Russia to Europe via the Baltic Sea. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said it was not yet know…

Three people were injured in an explosion on a market square in the German city of Halle on Tuesday, police said. The explosion happened around 6 pm (1600 GMT) in the public toilets on the square, and two people sustained serious injuries, a police spo…

Germany will “probably” keep two nuclear power plants connected to the grid in the first quarter of 2023, Economics Minster Robert Habeck said on Tuesday. He called it a “necessary” measure, saying that talks with the operators of the Isar 2 and Neckar…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again strongly criticized Greece for its handling of refugees in the Mediterranean. We do not accept that the Aegean and Mediterranean Sea are stained with blood, tears or hostility, the president said on…

German customs officers at the port of Hamburg seized a record 182 kilograms of crystal meth, said to be the single biggest haul ever confiscated in the country. “Such a large quantity of crystal meth, which we have removed from the illegal market, is …