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Last update: 12 hours agoEurovision in Vienna: The 70th Eurovision Grand Final kicks off tonight, with Israel’s Noam Bettan aiming to turn months of rehearsing “simulated boos” into stage calm, while Vienna’s security ramps up after warnings of a major terror threat—bomb dogs, drone defences and hundreds of police in a weeks-long 24/7 operation. Staging Tech & Logistics: Behind the scenes, “ninjas” swap each country’s physical set in under a minute, keeping the show moving between acts. Culture Under Pressure: LGBTQ activists accuse the EBU of “pinkwashing” Israel, as several countries boycott and the contest’s neutrality debate spills into the spotlight. Science & Nature: A new moth species from Crete has been named after Pope Leo XIV, and gut-microbe research links evolutionary adaptation to disease-associated lineages. Austria/Europe Watch: ORF’s political interference scandal is framed as a wake-up call ahead of wider public-media reforms.
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