Due to the intensifying drought in Spain, thousands of cattle have been slaughtered in recent months. Their owners say that with water and feed shortages, premature culling of the animals is the only viable option. The intensifying drought is accompanied by appeals from Spanish clergy to the faithful to pray for rain.more

G7 countries and the European Union will ban imports of Russian gas through pipelines through which Russia cut off supplies after the invasion of Ukraine, the Financial Times reported, citing officials involved in the talks.more

The lack of resolution in the first round of the presidential election in Turkey may delay Sweden's entry into NATO. The biggest threat, however, is the division of voters, which could destabilize the country, according to Swedish media today.more

Danish truck drivers started blocking roads and motorway entrances this morning in protest against plans to introduce a climate tax based on kilometers travelled.more

Lithuanian MPs from the conservative party Vilius Semeszka and Paule Kuzmickiene, following the example of Poland, applied to the language commission to change the name of the city of Kaliningrad in Lithuanian to the historical name Karaliaucius (Królewiec).more

A group of foreign veterinarians have traveled to the village of Conqueiros, near the Portuguese city of Leiria, to investigate the secret to the longevity of the world's oldest dog. A pet named Bobi of the Portuguese guard dog turned 31 recently.more

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced tighter border controls to limit the number of asylum seekers. "The left-wing government in Berlin is preparing to end the liberal refugee policy that marked the Merkel era," commented the portal of the British daily "Telegraph", commenting on last week's summit on migration issues.more

In the northwestern US, 12 million Americans have been warned about the heat. The western part of the country may be hit by record temperatures, reaching 10 degrees Celsius above normal. The heat season is now 45 days longer across the country than it was in the 1960s.more

A 35-year-old Polish tourist is fighting for his life in a hospital in Catania, Sicily, where he was in a critical condition after an attack. Local media say after the police that the Pole was probably attacked by an immigrant who beat him while stealing a mobile phone. The attacker knocked the man down, who hit his head.more

Italy has a shortage of around 70,000 nurses and their salaries are among the lowest in the EU, writes "Corriere della sera".more

Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday the vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, or almost the entire customer base who signed up for its main cloud service platforms since 2012, had been publicly available for a decade due to human error. more

A high school teacher in France is set to face trial after setting fire to his students' English exam papers to protest against the education system in the country. more

"Rimini is a safe city, visited by many tourists from Poland" - assured Jamil Sadegholvaad, the mayor of this Italian holiday capital in the region of Emilia-Romania. It was in Rimini that a brutal attack on a Polish couple took place in 2017.more

In the village of Barlasina near Monza, pensioner Claudio Trenta had been asking the authorities for several months to patch a pothole in the road adjacent to his house. He finally repaired the road himself. He was fined €882 and ordered to restore a section of the road to its original state, writes the Corriere della Sera.more

Elon Musk has announced on Twitter that he will be stepping down as head of this social media platform. The billionaire may be succeeded by Linda Yaccarino, who is in charge of the advertising division at media company NBCUniversal, the US Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday night.more

Albert II, the former King of the Belgians, is being criticised in France for 'excessive water consumption' at his country residence in the country, the daily Het Laatste Nieuws reported.more

An association of Russian organisations operating in Sweden called Rurik receives subsidies from the Swedish state budget for cultural and educational activities. However, it spreads Kremlin propaganda on the internet, the daily 'Dagens Nyheter' newspaper reveals today.more

For the second time in a matter of days, investigators took aim at the yacht 'Luna' of a Russian oligarch. According to the Spiegel weekly portal, they confiscated works of art worth several million euros. The yacht allegedly once belonged to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, the weekly magazine reveals.more

On the Italian island of Capri, there is a threat to public safety due to huge crowds and chaos in the port, mayor Marino Lembo alerts. He appealed to the prefect, i.e. the head of the local administration, to intervene and take action to ensure order there.more

Reducing prices in stores is one of the main goals of the French authorities in the face of persistently high inflation in the category of food products - 14.9 percent. The government is asking retailers to lower prices, BFM TV reported.more

"It was my biggest mistake," said King Willem-Alexander, assessing his holiday in Greece at the height of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.more

In Espoo, a city bordering Helsinki, a temporary footbridge collapsed this morning. Many people fell from a height of several meters and suffered injuries. The injured were taken to hospitals, emergency services said.more

Vladimir Putin is the most dangerous fool in the world because he counted on easy success in the war with Ukraine and therefore had no plan B at the beginning of the invasion. The Russian dictator put himself in a situation where he can neither win nor lose nor take a step back - reported the American newspaper The New York Times.more

The Constitutional Court of Spain has ruled that the abortion law in force in this country since 2010 is constitutional. In the justification, he stated that a woman can have an abortion if she is not "forced" to do so.more

A 23-year-old UK citizen accused of hacking Twitter accounts and other cyber crimes faces 77 years in prison; he hacked into the accounts of US presidents and other celebrities, high-tech website The Record reported yesterday.more