Regional and local elections are taking place in Spain today. 35.5 million people are entitled to vote and will elect their regional and local representatives - councilors and mayors for the next four years. This is an important test for the main parties ahead of the parliamentary elections at the end of the year.more

The Senate of the US state of Connecticut decided on Friday to acquit 12 people convicted 370 years ago in the witch trials. Expressions of regret for the "grossly unfair" sentence were also voted, the AP news agency reported.more

Crow traps have been set in several places in connection with aggressively behaving crows that attack people, the XIII authorities informed on their Facebook profile. district of Budapest.more

The 2020 census shows that the US population was older and there were fewer children under the age of 5 than in 2010 or 2000. The number of people 65 and older increased at the fastest rate and one in six people is over 65.more

Ahead of the July NATO summit in Vilnius, the idea is gaining popularity among allies that Ukraine could become a member of NATO even if it does not control the entire territory, as Germany did during the Cold War, the New York Times reported yesterday.more

50 million people are victims of modern slavery. 28 million are victims of bonded labour, 22 million of forced marriage. 12 million victims are children, say the authors of the Global Slavery Index. The Walk Free Foundation published the latest edition of the report on Wednesday, AP reported.more

Recycling plastic can make it more toxic and should not be considered a solution to the pollution crisis, Greenpeace has warned before the latest round of negotiations for an international plastics treaty.more

The maintenance of the Belgian royal family last year increased to a record amount of EUR 40 million, reports the daily "Le Soir". In 2023, the cost will be even higher and will amount to approx. EUR 42 million.more

The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified the approval of the oral antiviral drug Paxlovid on Thursday. These are tablets for the treatment of mild to moderate cases of Covid-19 in adults.more

The French government is tightening the rules, banning domestic flights for alternatives shorter than 2.5 hours by train. The regulations came into force on Tuesday, but we will go further, Transport Minister Clement Beaune announced.more

The US President assured reporters yesterday that there would be no US bankruptcy and that negotiations with the Republicans on raising the debt limit were productive. At the same time, he acknowledged that the two sides have significantly different visions of the budget.more

The Polish ambassador to Switzerland, Iwona Kozłowska, "reacts to the scandalous text of the Swiss daily NZZ (Neue Zuercher Zeitung) about 'Polish complicity in the crime of the Holocaust'. The author Martin Pollack, who lives in Vienna, is unfortunately known for his biased and anti-Polish texts," - wrote the Polish ambassador in Berlin, Dariusz Pawlos, on Twitter yesterday.more

Police officers from Portugal, Germany and the UK completed a search last night in the Algarve region, in southern Portugal, linked to the mysterious 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine (Maddie) McCann, local media reported.more

Tina Turner has made a fortune in more than half a century of work on the stage, selling over 200 million records. The artist's last concert tour in 2008 brought her over 130 million dollars. The Swiss media, which estimated Turner's fortune at around EUR 250 million, are trying to determine who - apart from the star's husband - will become her heir.more

85 percent of the French are in favor of tightening immigration law, according to a survey conducted by the Elabe Institute for BFMTV. Respondents want to bring back tougher punishment and expulsion of immigrants if they commit crimes.more

Alexandre, a resident of Mouscron in southern Belgium, received an electricity bill of €1,279,611.43, RTL Info reports. "I checked the amount three times and thought I was hallucinating," the man said.more

From today, smoking marijuana in the red light district of Amsterdam is punishable by a fine of 100 euros. The ban on smoking grass in the very center of the city is to reduce nuisance for the inhabitants of the capital of the Netherlands.more

The risks associated with the development of artificial intelligence (AI) are existential because it has the potential to harm or kill many, many people in the near future, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned in London.more

Unclear way of settling hours worked, insufficient health insurance, expensive and moldy quarters - seasonal workers on German plantations work in dramatically bad conditions - according to the report "This is not Europe. Exploitation in the harvest of asparagus, strawberries and vegetables in Germany", prepared by Oxfam an international humanitarian organization.more

Commonly referred to as the "Queen of Rock and Roll", Tina Turner died at her home in Kusnacht, Switzerland, on Lake Zurich, after a long and serious illness, her representative Bernard Doherty announced yesterday.more

China's semiconductor industry fears that Japan's chip export embargo, due to come into force in July, could also affect the production of older generations of chips used in, for example, cars or washing machines, writes the Financial Times.more

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that users of this popular messenger will soon be able to correct errors or add more information to messages already sent.more

A week ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle became the target of a car chase by photojournalists who tried at all costs to take pictures of them. The theory that this car chase was merely a PR ploy by the Sussex’s to warm up their image has become very popular online. A spokesperson for the couple has now spoken out on the matter.more

Researchers from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Leiden University have started a pilot programme to grow rice on peat land near Leiden, the two universities said in a press release.more

With the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games being held in Paris, the government wants to displace thousands of homeless, mainly migrants from the Paris region to the province, arguing that the number of hotels willing to host them is falling. This approach raises doubts among humanitarian organisations, French media reported today.more