Germany: The suspicion that mercury was the cause of the death of the fish has not been confirmed

The causes of the death of up to 100 tons of fish in the waters of the Oder are still unknown. However, the German environment ministry has been alerting about a “terrible environmental catastrophe with transnational consequences.” According to the dpa agency, the suspicion of the German side that mercury was the cause of the fish's death has not been confirmed.more

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A court in the Netherlands, which is considering the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane over Ukraine in 2014, announced that the verdict will be issued on November 17. The flight machine MH 17 was knocked down over territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.more

Many nursing homes will soon no longer be able to accommodate because there is a shortage of carers. If it continues as it is, in the future only rich people will be able to be cared for, said Christine Vogler, chairman of the German Nursing Council, in an interview with the newspaper "Bild am Sonntag".more

The car with the unconscious driver drove over 25 kilometers yesterday on the motorway before the police managed to stop it, informs the daily "Het Nieuwsblad". The car had cruise control on and a correction system to keep it in the lane.more

The Ukrainian army has resisted attacks by Russian troops in the Donbass towards Bakhmut, Avdiyivka and Slovyansk, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a communiqué this morning.more

After the Second World War, the Allies imposed reparations in kind on Germany instead of monetary reparations, as those imposed after the First World War ultimately harmed future peace in Europe. In the West, the receipt of reparations in kind was abandoned over time in favour of the Marshall Plan.more

China's communist authorities are using US-developed electronic surveillance tools to massively surveil citizens so that they feel constantly watched, the authors of a new book on China's surveillance system have assessed in an interview with the Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post.more

Heatwaves have exceeded expectations from climate models. July's record-breaking temperatures in the UK have been exceeded earlier than scientists had anticipated, Nature reports.more

Following the attack on Salman Rushdie, sales of his book 'The Satanic Verses', for which a fatwa was imposed on him, are rapidly increasing. On Amazon's online shop in France, the novel was today at number one in terms of sales, reports BFMTV.more

This year's drought is the most severe in Spain's history, according to hydrological data from the Pedro Sanchez government. The estimates are based on analyses by the Ministry of Ecology and Demography.more

The royal family and the Dutch state profited from slave brothels set up during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies between 1942-45, investigative journalism platform Follow The Money (FTM) reported yesterday.more

According to the Italian agency ANSA, local researchers have created an effective vaccine against cancer. The preparation induces an immune response to the tumor, which may increase the effectiveness of already used immunotherapeutic drugs.more

The temperature in the Arctic is rising four times faster than in the rest of the Earth, according to a study published yesterday by scientists from the Finnish Meteorological Institute who analyzed trends in temperature levels beyond the Arctic Circle from 1979 to 2021.more

The FBI seized top secret files in a search of former US President Donald Trump's estate in Florida this week, documents show. Agents removed 11 sets of documents, including some marked "TS/SCI", a designation for material that could cause "exceptionally grave" damage to US national security.more

Salman Rushdie's agent has said "the news is not good" after the author was stabbed at an event in New York state. He was attacked on stage, and is now on a ventilator and unable to speak, Andrew Wylie said in a statement, adding that the author, 75, may lose one eye.more

Inflation in France rose to 6.1 percent in July. in annual terms, while the unemployment rate in Q2 remained stable at 7.4%. - reported by the French National Statistics Institute (Insee)more

In the publication in Nature, researchers identified 11 key areas in the human genome that are important in the context of susceptibility to coronavirus infection and the course of COVID-19. Among the authors of the publication is a researcher from Poland.more

There is little water in the layers reaching a depth of 300 meters near InSight's landing site. Not only is ice missing, but even water-containing minerals are missing.more

Tomorrow morning is this year's peak of the Perseid meteor shower, or "night of shooting stars". At that time, astronomical picnics are organized in various places. Perseids can be observed to a lesser extent earlier.more

Among the documents that FBI agents searched for during a search of Donald Trump's property were those related to nuclear weapons, the Washington Post reported, citing sources known to the investigation. The newspaper did not say whether the agents found the documents they were looking for.more

Business closures are on the rise in the Netherlands, reports the Dutch Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In the first six months of this year, 76,000 businesses were closed, the highest number in fifteen years.more

As a result of the activation of anti-vaccine movements during the Covid-19 pandemic, the rate of routine vaccination is declining in many countries, warns Professor Peter J. Hotez in Nature. According to him, vaccination in children and adults is at risk in the US and worldwide.more

Scientists predict that increasingly warmer nights resulting from observed climate change will increase global mortality rates by up to 60 per cent by the end of the century, reports the journal The Lancet Planetary Health.more

Ryanair won't be offering flights at rock bottom prices any more thanks to the soaring cost of fuel, the budget airline's boss has admitted. more

The government of Spain's Pedro Sanchez has announced that it has launched a pioneering project to deliver Ukrainian maize by rail. The grain is to be transported from Polish territory.more

Germany's inflation rate in July was 7.5 percent, which is lower than in previous months, but "remains at a high level." - The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported yesterday. Food prices rose 14.8 percent in July compared to the same month last year.more

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The German city of Cologne wants to save more expensive electricity and for this purpose decided to switch off the lighting of representative buildings much earlier than before, including the famous cathedral and bridges on the Rhine - reports the website of the weekly "Spiegel".more

For the first time in history, there are more people over 65 than under 5 in the world, and many countries, including the UK, most European countries and Japan, have more retirees than children, reports in an article for the British daily Financial Times "Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalization and Human Development at the University of Oxford.more

Due to the impending heat, during which the temperature in the Netherlands is to exceed 30 degrees Celsius, the so-called National Heat Plan (Nationaal Hitteplan).more

Most of the microchips found in the weapons Russia uses against Ukraine are of foreign manufacture, mainly American, according to a report by the UK-based defence research institute RUSI.more

A former Twitter manager accused of spying for Saudi Arabia has been found guilty of six counts, including acting as an agent of a foreign state and attempting to conceal payments from an official with ties to the Saudi royal family, Reuters news agency reported.more

A mother of five, begging on the streets of Alicante in Spain, unexpectedly won the lottery, winning nearly 1.3 million euros. "Until now, I did not know what tears of happiness were," said the Spaniard after receiving the award.more