Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in the Netherlands, reports the sexual health center GGD. Last year, infections with diseases such as gonorrhea and syphilis were the highest since 2014. In 2022, as many as 41,250 infections were diagnosed.more

Twitter has agreed to abide by tough new EU rules to combat disinformation, Russian propaganda and online crime after a team of European Commission officials entered the platform's headquarters to conduct an inspection.more

Puffy and reddened eyes, hunched back, raised shoulders, overweight and clawed hands - this is how, according to experts, in 70 years the victims of the currently extremely popular remote work will look like.more

Support for the far-right AfD party continues to rise in the polls. In the recently published ARD DeutschlandTrend survey, it scored 19 percent and pushed Chancellor Scholz's SPD party to third place. This is the highest result recorded so far for this party in an ARD TV poll. The Christian Democrats can count on by far the greatest support.more

The rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenary Wagner Group is the biggest challenge facing the Russian state in recent times, and the loyalty of Russia's security forces will be crucial to the course of the crisis, the British Ministry of Defense estimates. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin left Moscow for the north of Russia.more

Equipped with diplomatic immunity, dressed in a scruffy track suit and down jacket, a Russian man is blocking the recovery of a plot of land 400 meters from the Australian parliament, reports the Australian news.com.au portal.more

Scientists have no doubt - droughts will haunt us more and more often; on Earth, there is and will be less water, including drinking water. It's up to us how and if we deal with this problem at all.more

OceanGate's CEO has repeatedly dismissed warnings about the risks of using the Titan submarine, according to the BBC. "In the race to the Titanic, you repeat the famous slogan, he is unsinkable," a former consultant to the company wrote in one of the e-mails to its boss Stockton Rush.more

In many places in Sardinia, bans and limits on the number of people present on the beaches have been introduced. For some, leisure becomes an almost exclusive experience. Strict regulations are aimed at stopping the mass influx of tourists, as well as protecting the natural environment.more

In 2022, in French towns, up to 20,000 inhabitants, a total of over 32 thousand. cases of physical violence in a public place, or 38 percent. more than in 2016, reported the daily Le Figaro.more

A charge of murder of a 27-year-old Polish woman was filed yesterday afternoon against a 32-year-old man from Bangladesh. His Pakistani roommate "helped a lot with the police investigation," said Greek police spokeswoman Constantia Dimoglidou.more

Preliminary findings show that the actions of the Dutch policemen contributed to the death of a Pole, Mateusz R., informed the spokesman of the prosecutor's office in Rotterdam. A 32-year-old man died in the hospital where he was taken after being arrested by police officers who used a taser on the Pole.more

Yesterday, it was officially confirmed that the passengers of the submarine Titan, on which they set off on a commercial expedition to the wreck of the Titanic, are dead. They all died in the implosion. The wreckage of the boat was found yesterday.more

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The Ministry of the Interior (FOD Binnenlandse Zaken) has launched a special alert subpage on the government website www.1722.be where you can report nuisances related to wasps, informs the VRT Nws portal. It was created due to the fact that, according to the portal, the emergency number 112 was too overloaded with complaints about wasps.more

Two Pakistani men were sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for the rape of an 18-year-old British tourist in July 2022 near the city of Rethymno on the Greek island of Crete, Protothema reported yesterday evening.more

The main suspect in the death of a 27-year-old Polish woman in Kos, a 32-year-old man from Bangladesh, was sent to detention on Wednesday after several hours of questioning in court accompanied by a lawyer. He pleads not guilty to the charges against him.more

The fact that there are children in diapers in Swiss schools is not shocking. Some start their education at the age of 4. Teachers in Switzerland, however, are beginning to worry that the number of students "not diapered" is increasing. Some of them are as young as 11 years old.more

Rumors have been circulating in the media for several days that Meghan Markle is close to signing a lucrative contract with Dior. A spokesman for the French fashion house, however, denied information that the Duchess of Sussex would be the new face of the brand and that there were any negotiations with her on this matter.more

Ukraine's progress on the battlefield is "slower than desired", but this is not a Hollywood movie, the Ukrainian president declared. Zelensky, who spoke to the BBC in London on the sidelines of a conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine, noted that his country needed support not only for reconstruction, but also for transformation.more

Do not buy pasta in the coming days - the association of consumer rights defenders appeals to Italians. It proposed this form of strike as a protest against the record, as it was emphasized, increases in the price of "paste", reaching 25 percent.more

An investigation is underway into the murder of 27-year-old Anastasia Rubińska on the Greek island of Kos. The body of a young woman was found on Sunday about a kilometer from the house of a 32-year-old from Bangladesh, previously arrested by the police, and 500 meters from the place where the Polish woman's mobile phone was found on Saturday. more

There are several possible scenarios for the fate of the passengers trapped in the missing Titan experimental submarine, but the chances of them surviving seem slim, news.com.au reported.more

European Union countries continue to recognize jihadism as the biggest terrorist threat in the European Union, warns the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol). Currently, lone terrorists are the most dangerous - he points out.more

"The result is predetermined - there will be no victory for Putin, he is only capable of creating hell," said Russian opposition columnist and satirist Viktor Shenderovich in a statement on the Khodorkovsky live channel on YouTube.more