Mary Smith of New South Law, which acted on the landowners’ behalf, said her clients had been “vindicated”. She added the case would have implications for other communities affected by infrastructure projects from energy schemes to road-building in future. “Your home is your sanctuary. That sanctuary has been disrupted over and over again by an…
Infected people aboard the MV Hondius, a Dutch cruise ship with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, have started to be evacuated from the ship and brought to hospitals in Europe. Two patients have landed in the Netherlands, where they are receiving medical treatment, according to a statement on Wednesday from Oceanwide Expeditions, the Dutch company…
Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital and hedge funds, has a new plan to generate bigger returns on AI beyond its sizable stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and data center companies like Singapore’s DayOne and CoreWeave. It has launched a venture called Next Frontier to buy up land near large power sources…
Shorouk Express Economy Materials 20 September 2025 10:23 (UTC +04:00) Photo: Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan Since 2022, Kazakhstan has returned 13.7 million hectares of land to state ownership, redistributing 6.2 million hectares and initiating usage on 4 million hectares. The government aims to fully reintroduce unused agricultural land into…
Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Any peace deal that would see Ukraine cede territory to Russia in hopes of ending the war would be deeply unpopular with the Ukrainian people. It would…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email European leaders have rallied in support of Ukraine after a defiant Volodymyr Zelensky rejected Donald Trump’s suggestion that a peace plan may involve giving…
Shorouk Express What you need to know so far today… An appeals court has temporarily blocked California Governor Gavin Newsom from regaining control of 4,000 National Guard troops mobilized in Los Angeles by the Trump administration.The ruling came after a U.S. District Judge stated that President Trump’s control of the troops was “illegal” and violated…
Shorouk Express Klitschko, a political opponent of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, made clear that the Ukrainian president hadn’t discussed any settlement with him: “President Zelenskyy does [it] himself. It’s not my function.” While admitting it would be a “painful solution” to achieve peace, Klitschko insisted the Ukrainian people would “never accept occupation” by Moscow long term. But…
Shorouk Express Faced with a housing crisis, the regional government in the Balearic Islands has approved plans to allow new construction on rural land and speed up planning processes. The Balearic Islands government this week passed a decree allowing for the reclassification of rural land in order to build more housing in Palma de Mallorca….
Shorouk Express Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Katy Perry and five other women have safely returned to Earth after they were blasted into space on an all-female rocket launch. Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’s…
