Russia's mercenary Wagner Group said last night that it had found the body of one of the British volunteers who went missing near Soledar in the Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reports.more

In 2023, Russia will face three fundamental issues: the future of President Vladimir Putin, the struggle of the so-called "hawks" with the more pragmatic part of the Russian elite and the emerging personnel changes at the highest levels of power - assessed the American analytical center Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.more

France spends 14.8% of its GDP on pensions. GDP, more than the vast majority of its neighbours, and the retirement age (62) is one of the lowest in the European Union. The French end their professional activity on average at the age of 62.3, according to new data from the European Commission.more

A system failure has caused all flights in the US to be grounded. more

2022 was Europe's second-warmest year on record, and climate change has caused record-breaking weather extremes that have reduced crop yields, dried up rivers and led to thousands of deaths, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the EU's Earth observation programme, said in a new report.more

Classified documents found in Joe Biden's Washington office included: Ukraine, Iran and Great Britain, CNN reported, citing an insider. Among the 10 documents, some were to be marked as top secret.more

The 80th edition of the Golden Globes ended with the triumph of the films "Fabelmans" and "Ghosts of Inisherin". The former won the award for drama and the latter for best comedy or musical. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the participants of the event.more

A family from Finland, who had moved to Sicily for the climate and its historical heritage, decided to leave it because of the level of teaching in the schools. The case was reported by the media on the Italian island.more

In Belgium, 73 per cent of employees do not read work emails and do not answer the phone on work matters outside working hours, according to a survey by Liantis.more

Even the most moderate trade unions have opted to take to the French streets in a strike if President Emmanuel Macron lives up to his promise to raise the minimum retirement age above 62, Bloomberg reported today.more

Drug criminals are increasingly recruiting children and young people in schools and on social media such as TikTok and Snapchat, the head of the public prosecutor's office in Rotterdam, Hugo Hillenaar, warned today. Speaking to the daily newspaper De Telegraaf, he conveyed that criminals are using minors to, among other things, pick up drugs at the port of Rotterdam.more

Frequent flyer data of KLM and Air France, members of the Flying Blue programme, was stolen by hackers, the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper reported yesterday. Both carriers confirmed to the newspaper the leak of personal data and travel information of programme members.more

ExeVir, a biotechnology company from Ghent, will receive €25 million in funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to develop a treatment against Covid-19 using llama antibodies.more

In 2022, 569 people in Belgium decided to change the "gender" heading in official documents, the Flemish news portal VRT reported today.more

The Swedish government announced today that it will reintroduce civil defense duty. Later this year, people to support the rescue will be called up for exercises. The reason is the war in Ukraine, including Russian attacks on civilians.more

The detailed attack by opponents of the new, left-wing head of state Inacio Lula da Silva on the headquarters of major democratic institutions, including the presidential palace in the Brazilian capital - displaced all other topics in the Latin American electronic media yesterday.more

A new variant of the coronavirus, XBB.1.5, is rapidly becoming the dominant strain in the US and already accounts for more than 70% of all deaths. Covid-19 cases in the Northeast, the Washington Post reported.more

Last year, a record number of Belgians applied for a name change, reports the weekly "De Zondag". As many as 5,104 people applied to their municipality to change their name, and 1,120 decided to change their surname.more

The EU is striving to seriously reduce trade ties with Russia after that country's invasion of Ukraine, and above all, it wants to become independent of Russian energy supplies, which is not easy, according to the Spanish portal 20minutos.es.more

The first ecological Sunday of the year was announced in Rome. The ban on private passenger cars in a large part of the city will apply between 7:30 and 12:30 and from 16:30 to 20:30. The aim of this initiative is to sensitize the inhabitants to the issues of environmental pollution, the level of which is high.more

A 32-year-old Iranian man was arrested tonight in Castrop-Rauxel (North Rhine-Westphalia) on suspicion of preparing a chemical attack for religious reasons. It is not yet clear whether the man had a specific target for the attack, the dpa reported.more

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug called lecanemab for patients with early-stage Alzheimer's disease. Tests have shown that the agent slows down memory degradation processes by 27% compared to the placebo agent.more

Although price growth in Europe is slowing down, the cost of living remains high, the Associated Press agency reports and emphasizes that the peak of inflation is probably behind us.more

The White House yesterday announced a $3 billion military support package for Ukraine, as well as a $682 million defense package. to strengthen the defense of NATO's eastern flank countries. The largest package to date includes: Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled howitzers and air defense missiles.more

The court in Amsterdam resumed the trial yesterday in the murder of investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries. At the same time, the prosecutor's office announced that the person who supplied the killers with weapons the day before the attack was a Pole, Konrad W. Two other Polish citizens are sitting next to him in the dock.more