The Taliban's restrictions on Afghan women and girls, if not lifted, could lead to mass femicide, a UN panel of experts has warned.more

The Covid-19 pandemic is no longer a global health emergency, the World Health Organization has announced. Thus, the WHO changed the categorization of the coronavirus pandemic, which was in force from January 2020.more

Less tourists come to Spain than before the Covid-19 pandemic, but they spend more money there during their holidays, according to published data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) in Madrid.more

The Belgian federal prosecutor's office said authorities had detained seven people, mostly from Chechnya, suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in Belgium. The suspects are linked to Islamic State.more

Japanese seafood imports from Russia reached a record $1.2 billion in 2022, the highest since 1992, according to Japanese finance ministry data published today. Part of the reason for this high score is Russia's greater catch in the waters around the disputed islands, known as the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia.more

The French Minister of Ecology, Christophe Bechu, announced in a radio interview for the RTL station a ban on the sale of garden pools in the drought-stricken southern Pyrenees prefecture in the south of the country.more

The system developed at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) - an artificial intelligence connected to an MRI scanner - read the thoughts of volunteers. For now, it still makes mistakes, but in the future, similar devices could help people who are unable to communicate normally.more

Poland has taken over a property in Warsaw illegally occupied by Russians, and the Swedish government should do the same with a residential building on the island of Lidingoe near Stockholm, which is illegally used by Russian spies acting under the guise of diplomats, comments the Swedish public television SVT.more

In Eastern Europe, the tourism industry is recovering more slowly from the pandemic than in Southern countries, a result of the war in Ukraine, among other things, analysts at the Polish Economic Institute pointed out. They added that the biggest declines in tourist numbers are in Finland and the Baltic states.more

U.S. doctors say that the number of people allergic to pollen is increasing every year. Allergologists are being approached by adult patients who have never had allergies, but now have hay fever during the pollen season. According to experts, this may be due to an increase in pollen concentrations in the atmosphere, which in turn is a result of climate change.more

Here in The Hague, we all want to see "another Vladimir," Putin, who "deserves to be sentenced for war crimes delivered in the capital of international law" - declared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski in The Hague today. In a speech titled "There will be no peace without justice for Ukraine," he also called for the creation of an international tribunal to judge Russia's crime of aggression.more

After three years, Fang Bin, a Chinese citizen journalist who reported on social media about the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in the city of Wuhan and was detained by PRC authorities, CNN reported today, citing an interview with a family member of the journalist.more

Florida, USA, yesterday saw the execution of 56-year-old Darryl B. Barwick, who was convicted of murdering 24-year-old Rebecca Wendt at her home in Panama City in 1986. The sentence was carried out by administering a lethal injection.more

Ukraine's allies must intensify all kinds of support for Ukraine: military, economic and political. Anything else only prolongs the war and the murder of innocents by Putin's regime. What has been given so far has been enough to defend, but why not give enough for Ukraine to win? - asks Garri Kasparov, former world chess champion, in an interview for the weekly "Focus".more

Due to the severe drought for 30 months, the regional government of Spanish Catalonia introduced far -reaching restrictions in the use of water in a total of 224 municipalities and announced similar restrictions in subsequent ones. The restrictions will affect a total of over 6 million inhabitants of 495 municipalities - said a spokeswoman for the Catalan government Patricia Plaj.more

The head of the UN Antonio Guterres warned in connection with the World Freedom Day of the Press that the media are attacked in every corner of the world and called all the countries to "stop attacks on the truth and those who fight for it".more

Former Tsar Bulgaria Symeon Sakskoburggotski, who in 2001-2005 held the office of the premiere of the country, won the trial with the Bulgarian state. The state is to pay Symeon and his sister 1.63 million euros compensation for preventing them from using their property. The trial has been going on since 2009.more

Three Russian "ghost" warships operated in the Baltic before blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines near the site of the sabotage for several hours, and in one case for almost a day, public broadcasters of all Nordic countries revealed.more

In South Korea, the cost of raising a child is the highest in the world, according to The Korea Times. Second place is occupied by China.more

Geoffrey Hinton, a scientist often referred to as the "Godfather of Artificial Intelligence", has left Google to warn about the dangers of AI. I thought AI would become smarter than humans in 30-50 years or so. Of course, I don't think so now," Hinton told the New York Times.more

"Look through your drawers because you can be rich without even knowing it," wrote the Belgian daily Le Soir, reporting that some old mobile phones have become collector's items and can cost up to 40,000 for them. euro.more

The European Commission has announced that it has adopted temporary preventive measures on imports of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower from Ukraine.more

Public schools in the city of Flint, in the US state of Michigan, have banned students from coming in with backpacks for safety reasons. The ban went into effect Monday and includes fully transparent backpacks, the NBC station's website reported.more

Energy demand in cities during hot weather is rising faster than urban planners had predicted. This could even lead to power outages when energy is needed most, scientists warn in the journal Nature energy.more

IBM, one of the world's oldest and largest information technology companies, plans to halt recruitment. Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to replace 7,800 jobs in the coming years.more