Barack Obama performed last night in Amsterdam. Tickets at the capital's largest hall, the Ziggo Dome, cost as much as 2,700 euros. The media estimate that the former U.S. president could have earned as much as one million euros.more

On May 11, Covid-19 vaccination requirements for foreign travelers, federal employees and health care workers will cease, the White House announced yesterday. On the same day, the pandemic state of emergency will expire.more

During the May Day parades in France, 540 people were detained, including 305 in Paris; 406 police and gendarmes were injured in clashes with violent demonstrators, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced today.more

French traveler Christophe Gruault set out yesterday by canoe from under the Warsaw Mermaid Monument on the Vistula River on a journey through the rivers of five countries - Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France - to raise awareness among European citizens of the need to protect water and biodiversity.more

In Germany, the opposition CDU/CSU party is calling for increased border controls due to a rising wave of illegal migrants. The demand particularly concerns the German-Austrian border, the website of the daily Die Welt reported yesterday. The politicians also point out that the EU's external border should also be "adequately protected."more

Pope Francis told reporters on a flight from Budapest to Rome yesterday that a mission for peace in Ukraine is underway, which is not yet publicly announced. He assured that it will be made public when possible.more

A monthly ticket for 49 euro allowing travel on local transportation - buses, streetcars, subways - as well as local and regional trains has been in effect throughout Germany since May 1. More than three million people have already bought the new ticket for May, reports the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV).more

In Spain, the memoirs of the late former Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls about the last years of the life of St. John Paul II. The book is entitled My Years with John Paul II (Mis anos con Juan Pablo II).more

The functioning of the human body is the result of evolution. Normally, the human genome adapts to changes in the environment for thousands of years, but only in the last 50 years has human life, including its diet, changed so radically that the general population has not yet had time to adapt and cope with lifestyle diseases - believes prof. Carsten Carlberg.more

It is 2.9 km long and connects the districts of Bergen located on both sides of the Lovstakken mountain. It was hollowed out to relieve traffic in this Norwegian city. It is the longest specially built facility of this type in the world.more

Four people were killed this morning in a shooting in Setubal, western Portugal, 45 km south of Lisbon. The shooter committed suicide.more

Newark Airport, New Jersey, USA, overtook New York's John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) in terms of the number of passenger connections to Europe. Only Spain (5) and Italy (4) have more destinations from Newark than Poland (three).more

Moscow reacted sharply to the takeover of the building belonging to the Russian embassy by the Warsaw authorities. Poland was attacked by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "This state should not exist for us as long as there are absolute Russophobes in power," said the Kremlin propagandist.more

The Portuguese armed forces, in cooperation with the Spanish Navy, are monitoring the movements of Russian ships off the coast of the Iberian Peninsula, Radio Observador reports. The information was confirmed by the Spanish General Staff.more

The Holy Father was very firm about the recent attacks on St. John Paul II. He said that the accusations of the brother of the Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi who disappeared 40 years ago are stupid. The words of Pope Francis are also quoted by foreign media, as well as the official Vatican website Vatican News.more

UK and Germany will cooperate in the next phase of work on advanced tank anti-tank munitions, it was announced yesterday. The new rounds will be used in the Challenger 3 tanks under development by the British and the German Leopard 2 tanks.more

The mass of hot air that has been maintaining over the Iberian Peninsula since Tuesday has led to record temperatures in Portugal, where the mercury reached almost 37 degrees Celsius.more

Ukrainian special services attempted to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday using a kamikaze drone with 17 kg of explosives on board. Although the assassination attempt failed, the attempt is being kept secret by the Russian authorities, reports the Bild daily portal.more

Spain is recording record-breaking temperatures in the last week of April, more typical of the middle of summer. Yesterday, the pillar of the mercury showed after 5 p.m. in Cordoba, in the south of the country, the highest temperature recorded so far this month - 38.7 degrees C. Authorities are warning of the danger of wildfires.more

Germany is experiencing a nationwide shortage of antibiotics, the Bild newspaper portal reported yesterday, summarizing the results of a survey conducted in all German states. Pharmacy shelves are empty, and there is no end in sight to the shortage - especially for children's drugs.more

Real wages in Germany fell by 4.0 percent last year compared to 2021, the Federal Statistical Office reported. This is the largest drop since the start of such statistics in 2008.more

Celebrated today for the tenth time, King's Day remains the most favorite holiday in the Netherlands, but the popularity of the monarch William Alexander remains at a low level.more

Militarily and strategically, the European center of gravity is shifting towards Central and Eastern Europe, the center of which lies in Poland, a country that can today be considered the main European pillar of NATO and the Atlantic Alliance, writes French columnist Guy Milliere.more

The Covid-19 coronavirus will remain, but the world is starting to recover from the extraordinary phase of the pandemic, said the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.more

Three gangsters were sentenced yesterday to life imprisonment for shooting 12-year-old Adriana, of Polish origin, in August 2020 at a gas station in Botkyrka near Stockholm. The girl was an accidental victim of feuds between criminal groups.more