The unthinkable is becoming a possibility. The US Congress may fail to raise the debt limit and lead to the technical bankruptcy of the United States. If this happens, every economy will be affected, stock markets will collapse and global markets will panic, warns the Economist.more

Air pollution in the Paris metro with fine particles is five times higher than the standards recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), according to a report by France Televisions station 'Vert de rage'.more

Fourteen Portuguese municipalities, popular with tourists, already charge holidaymakers a so-called tourist tax for overnight stays. This ranges from one to two euros.more

The 30-year-old woman who fatally hit a Polish woman in the sub-Brussels town of Tervuren and fled the scene of the accident has turned herself in to the police. She testified that she drove away from the scene because she thought she had hit a branch or a deer, Inspector Filip Steppe of the Flemish police reported today.more

Despite nearly three million unemployed people in Spain, more than a third of companies are struggling to find workers. Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs complain of a shortage of labour; in the hotel and construction industry this deficit is more than 50 per cent. - according to the latest Business Activity Survey presented by the Bank of Spain.more

The Italian region of Emilia-Romagna is slowly coming back to life after catastrophic flooding. The water has already subsided in many towns and cities, and the cleaning of mud from houses, basements, and stores continues uninterruptedly. Classes in schools are being resumed gradually. The situation is still difficult in the Ravenna area, where three thousand buildings have been destroyed. The regmore

Portuguese police today began searching a body of water located 50 kilometers from where Madeleine McCann went missing in 2007, the BBC reported.more

I can't give a more precise number of F-16 fighters that we will get from Western allies, but there will be dozens of them," Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Colonel Yuri Ihnat conveyed. He added that to replace the post-Soviet air fleet, Ukraine needs about 150 fighters.more

The EU formally approved today the setting of the next elections to the European Parliament for the period from 6 to 9 June 2024, the EU Council announced on its website.more

400-500 euro was the price of one night's stay in many hotels in Venice on the penultimate weekend of May, on the days of the inauguration of the Architecture Biennale. Sums of 700 euros were also not uncommon. Also in other Italian cities at the beginning of the holiday season there is a significant increase in hotel prices; the most in Florence and Milan - by about 40 percent.more

From Cape Canaveral, Florida, a Falcon 9 rocket took off yesterday with four participants on the first private flight to the International Space Station (ISS) organized by the American company Axiom Space. Among the participants of the flight are two Saudis, a man and a woman.more

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Due to the new activity of the Etna volcano in Sicily, the airport in Catania has been closed until 9am on Monday or until the end of the current eruption, the airport management announced yesterday.more

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has not confirmed the seizure of Bakhmut by Russian forces, Serhiy Nykyforov, the spokesman for the Ukrainian leader, said today, referring to information provided, among others, by the Russian government. by the AP and Reuters agencies indicating that the Wagner group has captured the city.more

Almost a third of children born in Spain come from a foreign-born father or mother, according to a report by the Demographic Observatory of the CEU San Pablo University, based on data from the national statistics institute (INE).more

The water took the car and destroyed the workplace; now they help the flood victims and clear the mud - this is the story of the Italian-Polish Consorti family from Forli in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. Monika Consorti Pelczar, Pier Luigi Consorti and their daughter Laura told about the days when the flood changed their lives.more

Many years of research by ornithologists, zoologists, biologists and ecologists from all over Europe have shown that the main cause of the decline in bird populations in Europe and Great Britain are pesticides and herbicides used in agriculture. And the losses are huge. Some researchers estimate that we have lost 550 million species of birds in Europe alone in the last half century.more

The AI revolution is entering the human resource management (HR) industry more and more strongly - believes Przemysław Kadula, co-founder and managing director of the Talent Place recruitment agency, member of the board of the Polish HR Forum. The biggest challenge - according to Dominika Olczak, SoDA expert - is to maintain "human-centricity".more

Writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, made his first public appearance at Pen America's gala since the assassination attempt on his life last year, the organization said in a statement.more

The capture of Bakhmut remains a key objective for the Russian authorities in the war with Ukraine, because taking the city would allow the Kremlin to claim any success at the front, the UK Ministry of Defense assessed in today's intelligence report.more

The Vatican Astronomical Observatory can now be visited online. A special link on the website takes us virtually to museum rooms in the papal palaces dedicated to the Observatory's history, Vatican Radio reports.more

On Poland's initiative, the UNESCO Executive Council yesterday adopted a decision on promoting the bicycle as a universal means of transportation - "Bicycle for all - Bicycle for sustainable and healthy lifestyles."more

Wizz Air is celebrating the 19th anniversary of its first flight today by offering a 19% fare reduction on all of its flights booked today, with no time restrictions on travel dates, according to a Wizz Air press release. more

Death by loneliness threatens 1.5 million South Koreans, according to a study released yesterday by the Seoul Health Ministry. The government wants to accurately estimate the scale of the problem and prepare countermeasures, the 'Korea Times' newspaper portal reported.more