Saturday is a day of serious difficulties for air traffic in Italy due to an eight-hour strike by airport workers, starting at 10 a.m. According to consumer rights organisation Codacons, a total of around 1,000 flights are at risk and the protest will disrupt travel for 250,000 passengers. Hundreds of connections have already been cancelled.more

Amsterdam is discouraging partygoers with advertising campaigns, and Venice is trying to introduce entrance fees to the city. More and more popular metropolises are fighting back against mass tourism, writes Belgian daily Le Soir.more

Temperatures are rising across Europe this week, but this is just the beginning of the heat brought on by the anticyclone, or area of high pressure, Cerberus, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported. Temperatures will reach a record 48 degrees Celsius in Sicily and Sardinia. However, the heat wave is not only affecting Europe, but also the United States and China.more

The number of illegal entries into Germany from Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland continues to rise, the portal of the daily Welt reported. Germany needs border protection with these countries more urgently than ever, CDU politician Alexander Throm assessed.more

Dutch police have detained four Poles wanted by the Polish justice system for more than 35 business burglaries, police in The Hague reported. The arrests took place yesterday.more

The union representing some 160,000 Hollywood actors went on strike at midnight local time after negotiations with major studios and streaming services failed. It is demanding, among other things, wage increases.more

President Joe Biden signed an executive order yesterday allowing 3,000 reservists to be called up for active duty to participate in Operation Atlantic Resolve in Europe, the White House reported. According to the Pentagon, this is to allow "access to more troops" as part of the increased presence of US forces on the continent.more

During the NATO summit in Vilnius, the German government once again ignored the appeals of its Eastern European partners for Ukraine's quick admission to the Alliance. "This could harm Ukraine and the West," writes Jan Puhl, columnist of the Der Spiegel weekly.more

Tobacco companies have a new strategy - they are investing billions of euros in drugs for smokers, the investigative journalism platform The Investigative Desk and the magazine "Dutch Journal of Medicine" reported on Thursday. According to the manufacturers, this is a responsible "transformation" of the sector, while pulmonologists are concerned about the growing influence of the tobacco industry.more

A court in Rome sentenced a 24-year-old Pole to 7 years and 4 months in prison, who on December 31 last year seriously injured an Israeli tourist with a knife at the Termini train station in the Eternal City, Ansa reported.more

Dozens of Ryanair flights from Belgium's Charleroi airport have been canceled due to a strike by Irish carrier pilots, airport director Philippe Verdonck has announced.more

In Germany, the airports of Hamburg and Duesseldorf were temporarily blocked on Thursday morning by climate activists from the "Last Generation" group.more

Temperatures above 47 degrees C near the ground have been recorded in recent days in parts of Sicily and Puglia in southern Italy, according to the EU's Copernicus earth observation satellite programme. Severe heat continues in Italy, brought by the African anticyclone, named Cerberus by meteorologists.more

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to further expand his country's nuclear combat potential and intensify testing, North Korean media reported. Kim yesterday oversaw the second test of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of attacking the continental United States.more

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced yesterday the deployment of 45,000 additional police and gendarmes across the country on the evenings of July 13 and 14 to prevent incidents during the National Day holiday, which will be celebrated tomorrow.more

Global sovereign debt has risen to a record $92 trillion by 2022, according to the UN's "A World of Debt" report released yesterday.more

The results of the NATO summit in Vilnius are good, but if Ukraine had been invited to join the Alliance, they would have been ideal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski announced today in Vilnius, during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.more

The restoration of the bust of Nicolaus Copernicus by Ludwika Nitschowa took place on July 3-4, 2023. The sculpture is located just outside the entrance to the Planetarium in Brussels. The project was initiated and carried out by the Polish Institute in Brussels, and the restoration work was financed from the budget of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, IP reported today.more

The 118-page "Domestic Violence Report," presented yesterday by Interior Ministry head Nancy Faeser, Family Minister Lisa Paus and the head of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), yielded "horrifying data and charts on domestic violence in families and relationships" and "gruesome details" - reported the 'Bild' daily.more

Nearly 62,000 Europeans died in 2022 due to hot weather. Scientists estimate that last summer was the hottest in Europe this century, according to a report published by the scientific journal Nature Medicine.more

The French government will pay its citizens small sums from October on the occasion of the repair of clothes and shoes in order to fight the excessive waste of clothes, reports the daily Le Monde. Every year, the French get rid of 70,000 tons of clothing, two-thirds of which end up in landfills.more

One hundred years after the ban was imposed by the Paris authorities, the water in the Seine becomes clean enough for bathing. Currently, when the water level is low, the water quality ranges from "sufficient" to "very good", reported the France24 portal.more

The African anticyclone, dubbed Cerberus, hit Italy with full force, bringing temperatures as high as 40 degrees. On Tuesday, Rome, Rieti, Latina, Frosinone, Florence, Bolzano, Perugia and Turin are on high heat alert.more

The volcano Fagradalsfjall, located on the Reykjanes peninsula in south-west Iceland, has been erupting since yesterday. The activation of this volcano two years ago resulted in the suspension of all arrivals and departures from Keflavik International Airport.more

Moscow city authorities are likely to threaten to withdraw contracts with construction companies if they do not meet the quotas for providing "volunteers" for service in Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defense said today.more