The California Attorney General issued an official letter in which he imposed a ban on Harry and Meghan's Archewell foundation from collecting and spending money. This decision is related to several serious negligence committed by the organization, described by the prosecutor's office as "criminal".more

After the high-profile murder of a 39-year-old Pole in Stockholm, who was shot in April when he drew the attention of a group of young people, fewer Swedes are willing to intervene in the event of a crime - according to a Demoskop survey published for the Aftonbladet newspaper.more

Voters who will be abroad on the day of the European Parliament elections have several options to cast their votes. The simplest solution is a certificate of voting rights. Nearly 300 district electoral commissions will be established outside the country.more

New Zealand was named the most beautiful country in the world by the Rough Guides travel platform. The place in this ranking is determined by user votes.more

The profiles of 13 politicians running for the European Parliament and representing heterogeneous forces in the EU defined as nationalist, populist and illiberal were presented by the French daily "Le Monde". He emphasizes that these candidates, including former Prime Minister Beata Szydło, can count on good electoral results.more

Hackers broke into the Europol Platform for Experts (EPE) website, which serves police officers from all over Europe to exchange information; now criminals are selling their loot on the Internet - reported the German weekly "Der Spiegel".more

Nemo, representing Switzerland, left the Malmö Arena with the crystal microphone trophy. The artist received a total of 591 points in the jury and audience votes. Right behind him were the representatives of Croatia and Ukraine. This year's host of the competition was Sweden, which hosted this musical event for the seventh time.more

The popularity of a given place among tourists may turn out to be its curse. The inhabitants of the charming village of Binibeca Vell, located in Menorca, have experienced this. For some time now, its population has been complaining not only about the excess but also about the inappropriate behavior of tourists, blaming officials for the situation.more

A winning of over EUR 101 million was won yesterday in the Italian Superenalotto number game at the Naples collector's office. This is the award for the "six" - the first this year.more

Companies sending cocoa to Europe are violating European Union regulations by selling beans from deforested areas of Liberia. To conceal these practices, they label cocoa as coming from neighboring Côte d'Ivoire.more

Between 6 and 9 June EU citizens will go to the polls to elect the European Parliament, the only parliament directly elected by people from multiple countries. More than 370 million people will be eligible to vote, including millions of EU citizens living in the UK. more

More and more Polish tourists are robbed in Rome - this information was provided to PAP by consular services. As they emphasize, foreigners should be especially vigilant in the Eternal City. It has been under tourist siege for weeks, which is being taken advantage of by pickpockets and car thieves.more

In 2023, approximately 693,000 people were born in Germany. children, which is the least than in any corresponding period in the last decade - according to data from the Federal Statistical Office. Germans are also deciding to get married less and less often.more

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg assured the Italian daily "La Repubblica" that there is currently no risk of any attack by Russia on one of the member states of the North Atlantic Alliance. He added that Russia's nuclear rhetoric is "irresponsible."more

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was sentenced yesterday by a court in Stockholm to a fine for twice (March 12 and 14) blocking the entrance to the Swedish parliament together with other activists.more

2024 may be a record year in terms of the number of foreign tourists arriving in Spain. From January to March, over 16.1 million foreigners came there for vacation.more

The viewers' votes were not enough to guarantee Luna and the song "The Tower" a place in the final ten selected in the first Eurovision semi-final. This year's competition is under the slogan "United By Music", and a total of 26 countries will fight for victory in Saturday's final, 20 of which will be selected in two semi-finals.more

After analyzing data following a launch scrub Monday, United Launch Alliance managers decided to haul the Atlas 5 rocket carrying Boeing's Starliner astronaut ferry ship back to its processing facility to replace a suspect valve, delaying another launch try to at least May 17, NASA said in a blog post Tuesday.more

The UK, US and Australia have sanctioned the Russian leader of cyber-crime gang LockBit.more

Extending the period in which pregnancy can be terminated from 12 to 18 weeks, as well as abolishing the requirement for parental consent for abortion in the case of teenagers aged 15-17 - these are the main changes to the Health Act agreed upon by the Danish government with part of the opposition.more

There is a risk that the US will withdraw from Europe. I have been trying to convince Germany to take over the role of European leader for 40 years, but they are very reluctant, admitted former president Lech Wałęsa in an interview for the Danish newspaper "Jylland-Posten".more

The European Commission announced yesterday that it would end the procedure under Art. 7. v. Poland. However, this will not happen earlier than May 21. In the EC's assessment, there is no longer a serious threat to the rule of law in Poland. The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, congratulated Prime Minister Donald Tusk.more

France sent about 100 soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Foreign Legion to Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine. They are to help the Ukrainian army repel Russia's offensive in Donbas - said analyst Stephen Bryen, deputy undersecretary of state at the Pentagon during the presidency of Ronald Reagan (1981-89), in an article for the Asia Times website.more

Life expectancy from birth in the EU in 2023 was 81.5 years. This is 0.9 years more compared to 2022, Eurostat reported.more

European intelligence agencies have warned their governments that Russia is planning a sabotage campaign across Europe in connection with "entering into a lasting conflict with the West," the British Financial Times reported yesterday. Moscow is actively preparing bombings, arson attacks and attacks on infrastructure, carried out both directly and through "proxies".more

Among European Union countries, Hungary had the highest number of prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants in 2022, according to the latest Eurostat data. The first four places in the list are occupied by the Visegrad Group countries, with Poland in second place.more

Portugal's Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fatima, one of the world's most popular Marian devotions, has launched an accommodation booking option via its website.more

In many supermarkets in Canada, you can pay for your purchases at self-service checkouts, but large shops of this type with only self-service checkouts have not caught on in the country. The chains are therefore returning to cashier-operated checkouts.more

Authorities in the municipalities of Obidos and Caldas da Rainha in the west of Portugal have warned residents in the region against using local bathing waters following the appearance of at least two sharks of a species dangerous to humans.more