🐼🐼These cute month-old twin panda babies won’t face the public at their Madrid zoo until April.

But you can have a sneak peak now 👇
https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-20/Madrid-zoo-helping-to-increase-Giant-Panda-population-14uu4tP5kTS/index.html

Beijing 2022 will bring:

⛷️ Greater participation in winter sport
💖 Hope that the pandemic can be overcome
📺 Higher profile for winter sport
🌏 Proof that sustainability = success

Says Olympics' Chief 👇
https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-19/Winter-sports-will-be-pushed-to-a-new-level-by-B...

Facebook says it is going to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build a “metaverse,” saying that it sees the virtual reality version of the internet as the future.Joseph Evans from EndersAnalysis explained what it’s all about.

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From $4,500 mini city-cars to vehicles that convert into private cinemas, China’s electric car sector is booming.

Read more: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-19/Thanks-to-models-under-5-000-China-dominates-electric-car-sales-14sN1JBFuM0/index.html

#PlugIn 🔌 🚗

Austrian research project ’car2flex’ has decided to look at ways for 🚗vehicles to give a little back - when they're not being driven. #plugin

Read more: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-18/Could-Austria-s-electric-vehicles-help-power-the-national-grid--14o5ya5aZmU/index.html

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James Carcass keeps his furnace running at 1100 degrees Celsius for weeks, working around the clock to keep it burning 🔥 as he struggles to maintain Hungary's disappearing glass blowing tradition.

Read more: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-18/-Hungary-s-disappearing-glass-masters-14mhWWRPpT...

🌱In the Sussex countryside in the UK, complete with a visitor's center and coffee shop, lies the Millennium Seed Bank, the heart of humanity's investment in future growth.
"We've got the smallest seed in the world and biggest seed in the world," Tim Pearce, a senior partnership coordinator, revea...

It’s official. Italy has just become the first country in Europe to make its vaccine passport compulsory for all workers.

Hermione Kitson reports from Rome: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-17/-Vaccine-passports-now-compulsory-for-all-workers-in-Italy--14pvw3cr5K0/index.html

Desertification is a growing problem across Europe - driven by a combination of over-farming and climate change.

One of the worst-hit regions is southern Spain, home to the country's $60 billion agriculture industry.

Spain's south suffers from the lack of frequent rainfall, it is one of the dri...

UK lawmaker David Amess has died after being stabbed during his regular session where he meets voters, police have announced.

A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Read more: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-15/UK-lawmaker-David-Amess-stabbed-man-arrested-14nVSsPwc5G/...

🌳 🧬 From fighting tree pathogens to DNA barcoding the world’s plants... how the 30-year partnership between Britain’s The Botanics and China’s Kunming Institute of Botany is proving crucial in understanding and conserving plant diversity.

Read more: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-16/How-C...

As construction workers cut up railway tracks in southern Hungary, the country marked its latest move toward becoming a European logistics hub.

The Budapest to Belgrade railway is the first major infrastructure project in Europe for China's Belt and Rail Initiative and the second most expensive...

40% of insect species are in decline. For humans, it’s particularly urgent to save the 🐝#COP15

Read more: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-14/Save-the-biodiversity-save-the-bees-14fBL4cOMr6/index.html

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Two days after Alexander Schallenberg replaced Sebastian Kurz as Austria's chancellor, an arrest in the investigation against Kurz and his team is causing a stir.

Opinion poll researcher Sabine Beinschab was reportedly taken into custody Tuesday morning amid accusations she played a role in the ...

Two hundred years ago river banks across the UK were strengthened to protect housing and other human-built areas.

But now environmentalists are knocking some of these down, and recreating wetlands that they hope will boost biodiversity. 🐥🐛

As the UN Biodiversity Conference starts in Kunming, C...

As the UN Biodiversity Conference starts in Kunming, China, John Bevir walks you through some of the bold ideas in the UK to help its wildlife. 🐥🐛

Read more: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-11/Accept-climate-change-accept-need-to-adapt-say-UK-conservationists-14haTf8HqEw/index.html

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The United Nations has declared that nature is declining globally at a rate unprecedented in human history. So never has there been a more urgent need for the world to come together to address the biodiversity crisis.
And yet the chance to do that - COP15 - has now been delayed for over a year th...

Fishing communities throughout the UK backed the vote to leave the European Union, only to find that red tape, hygiene requirements and additional costs left them struggling to export their catches to the continent. CGTN’s Michael Voss visited the nation’s largest independent fishing fleets at Ne...

As the pandemic ravaged the arts, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment moved from a prestigious concert venue to a north London school to cut costs. 🏫🇬🇧 It’s turned out to be a win-win for the musicians and the pupils. 🎼🎻

Read more: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-03/London-orchestra-m...

The eruptions began almost two weeks ago and have shown no signs of slowing down, Cumbre Vieja has left a devastating trail.

So far, more than 600 buildings have been destroyed and more than 6,000 people have had to evacuate. Thankfully, no lives have been lost.

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He was bruised, bloodied and had a broken nose. And yet, moments after 25-year-old Cambridge University graduate Yuanzhao Zhang had allegedly been viciously beaten by a gang inside his local supermarket, he still found it in him to get back up and try to chase them.

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While Germany scrambles to form a new coalition, it’s safe to say the next Chancellor will have a very busy time ahead. From climate change to relations with Russia; a growing pile of global political problems awaits them.

Here, The Agenda’s Stephen Cole explains what Angela Merkel’s successor ...

Since the outcome of the German Election, clouds of uncertainty continue hovering over the country. Until a coalition is formed, Europe’s economic powerhouse will remain distracted from important global issues by its own internal political ambiguity.

What is crystal clear, though, is that the n...

Dr Ursula Münch, Professor of Political Science at the University of Munich tells Stephen Cole that Germany’s position inside the European Union is not dependent on the person who is governing, adding that the election has presented an opportunity for change towards a “totally different German so...