By May, Ukraine intends to conduct a major counter-offensive operation against the aggressor's troops; Kiev is considering an advance from the Kherson region towards the occupied Crimea or cutting the Russian "land bridge" to the peninsula, i.e. an attack on the enemy-held areas on the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov, Politico reported.more

Facebook violated the privacy of Dutch users of the platform in 2010-2020 - the court in Amsterdam ruled yesterday. The judge found that the American company unlawfully processed personal data, using them, among others, to for advertising purposes.more

Russians have poured into Bali in droves since the invasion of Ukraine. In Indonesia’s most popular destination, the arrivals are finding refuge from the economic fallout of the war and the threat of conscription.more

The amount of the deposit is the main reason for returning empty bottles and cans in Slovakia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, according to a study.more

The US, UK and Australia have unveiled details of their plan to create a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, aimed at countering China's influence in the Indo-Pacific region.more

The 'NRP Mondego' failed to carry out a mission to accompany a Russian ship north of the island of Porto Santo, in Madeira, after 13 personnel refused, on Saturday night, to embark for security reasons.more

Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs this year, making it the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs as the industry braces for a deep economic downturn.more

It is likely that Finland will join NATO before Sweden, and we are preparing for this possibility, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson admitted for the first time.more

I am confident that in 2023 we will be able to declare that the Covid-19 pandemic is over and no longer a threat to public health on a global scale.more

French MPs want to introduce a new law according to which minors under 15 will need parental consent to set up an account on a social networking site. The draft also sets the minimum age from which it will be possible to set up an account - 13 years.more

The United States, Great Britain and Australia are ignoring the concerns of the international community and are following a "dangerous path," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin, commenting on the submarine cooperation agreement announced by these countries.more

The journalists Reinhard Bingener and Markus Wehner gave their book "Die Moskau-Connection" the subtitle: "Schroeder's network and Germany's road to dependence on Russia". The book reveals Gerhard Schroeder's (SPD) connections, which helped influence Germany's policy towards Russia, even after he left office as chancellor.more

The droughts that have hit Europe since 2015 were the most severe in the last 400 years, scientists report in "Nature Communications Earth & Environment".more

Sales of fish - fresh, frozen, smoked and canned - fell by nearly 20 per cent in Spain in the first two months of this year. - alert fishery economic organisations.more

America has gone from having record savings to record debt in just two years. It is a country of credit cards, says NPR public radio.more

Flights were canceled in and out of the northern German cities of Bremen and Hamburg, and the capital, Berlin, as workers went on strike on Monday.more

Thanks to the lowest exchange rate of the Czech koruna against the zloty, purchases in Poland are the cheapest for Czechs since 1995. This applies not only to individual purchases, which are further encouraged by Poland's zero VAT on some food products, but also to institutional importers.more

Courts have reduced the sentences of hundreds of criminals to relieve overcrowded prisons, daily De Standaard reports. According to the newspaper, more than 294 convicts have been released for this reason in the last six months.more

President Joe Biden said Sunday that at his direction US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and his top economic adviser Lael Brainard worked with financial regulators to ensure households and businesses affected by the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures could access their deposits, and he promised to hold those responsible accountable.more

Everything Everywhere All at Once has dominated this year’s Oscars, winning seven awards including best picture in a major night for Asian and Asian American representation.more

In the UK, supermarkets have introduced a limit of three tomatoes per customer. You can buy a maximum of two peppers in the Netherlands. In Germany, customers complain about the prices of cucumbers, while in Spain, farmers patrol the fields at night against fruit and vegetable thieves. There is a lot of talk about the "onion crisis" in Slovakia.more

Italy will need 40,000 fruit pickers before summer to make up for the severe labor shortage that hit farms last year and led to a large loss of harvest.more

While cleaning, Simone Grundmann from the city of Soest in western Germany came across a cardboard box with four bones that her father had once dug up. The bones turned out to be mammoths that are at least 15,000 years old.more

Massive strikes in Paris against pension reform this week are affecting trash pickup services in the French capital, with piles of waste sitting on many of the city’s normally picturesque streets, including those just steps from monuments like the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe.more

The pandemic has made German schoolchildren less intelligent. In the test conducted at that time, young Germans fared much worse than the reference groups from 2002 and 2012. The conclusions of the research of German scientists were published in the specialist journal "Plos One".more