Seven people, including an attacker, were killed in a shooting that occurred Tuesday night into Wednesday at a Walmart chain supermarket in Chesapeake, Virgina, in the eastern part of the US, authorities in that city tweeted after local police.more

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in an interview with the Portuguese edition of CNN that France was "in denial" that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was possible, and accused the German government of advocating a swift Ukrainian defeat in the conflict.more

Higher inflation and slower growth are the price the world economy pays for Russia's war in Ukraine, next year economic growth will slow down and will amount to 2.2 percent. at 3.1 percent this year, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.more

Charging an electric car while driving will soon cease to be a futuristic vision. The first two sections of the road, which will inductively charge the batteries of cars passing it, are to be launched in American Detroit by the end of 2023. It will be the first wireless electric road system (ERS) in the US.more

The US and its allies condemned North Korea's recent missile tests, but at a meeting of the UN Security Council, China and Russia, which have veto power, opposed tightening sanctions against Pyongyang, the AP agency reported.more

The Associated Press has fired a reporter who erroneously suggested that Russia fired a missile that landed in Poland, killing two people in Przewodowo, the Washington Post reported. "When our standards are broken, we must take the steps necessary to protect the integrity of the message," the agency said.more

Since Twitter introduced a paid verification system and fired thousands of content moderators, the number of accounts spreading health misinformation has increased and their reach has increased, The Guardian reported.more

The Germans do not intend to stop at moving the German Patriot air defense batteries to Poland, reports Rzeczpospolita. This may be the first step towards further involvement of Germany in the defense of Poles, the German ambassador to Poland, Thomas Bagger, told the newspaper.more

In Venice, the Mose system of movable barriers today blocked the flow of so-called high water with one of the highest levels in history, local authorities said. In the morning, this level reached 173 centimeters in the Adriatic, which is the highest after the floods of 1966 and 2019.more

The Belgian government has officially given citizens the choice of whether they want to work four or five days a week, but according to the regulation, which entered into force yesterday, the number of working hours will hardly change regardless of the option chosen, Euronews reported.more

Belarus is saying goodbye to McDonald's, to be replaced from tomorrow by the Russian chain Vkusno i Tochka. Internet users speak of a "farewell to an era", but Alyaksandr Lukashenko "thanked god" for the departure of the American chain.more

The five main banks of the Netherlands will jointly investigate all transactions above €100 by customers, according to a bill presented today in the Netherlands aimed at preventing money laundering and terrorist financing.more

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSO), responsible for ensuring the security of the Kremlin authorities, is preparing to stop attempts at a 'palace coup'. FSO commanders are taking seriously scenarios involving an opponent's use of hypnosis techniques or psychological operations, the independent Russian portal Insider reported.more

The UN Security Council must take "serious action" in response to North Korea's recent launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers said yesterday.more

The rocket that fell in Poland was an accident, not a strike by Russia against NATO, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced in an interview with public broadcaster CBC.more

Canada’s Defense Minister Anita Anand said at the opening of the International Security Forum in Halifax that the current situation “has a dangerous resemblance to the 1940s.”more

Two trade unions representing employees of the French airline Air France have announced that they will go on strike between December 22 and January 2. The protest is related to the ongoing negotiations with the management of the company regarding the collective agreement regulating the work of cabin crew.more

Germany will be facing temporary power outages this winter, Ralph Tiesler, the head of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BKK), said on Saturday.more

Five people were killed and 18 injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub on Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colorado, police said.more

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk has said Donald Trump's account has been reinstated after running a poll in which users narrowly backed the move.more

On Thursday, two Russian fighter jets made an unprofessional, dangerous flight over the ships of the NATO Permanent Maritime Group, carrying out routine operations in the waters of the Baltic Sea. The pilots of the planes did not react to the messages of our forces - informed the NATO Allied Maritime Command.more

Aerospace company Archer announced that in two years its electric flying taxis will serve passengers in New York. For starters, they will fly from downtown to Newark Liberty Airport. As reported, the air taxi avoids traffic jams, so the flight to the airport from Manhattan will take "less than 10 minutes."more

"In the next three decades, Finland will need more than 50,000 migrants a year to work; without a sufficient workforce, we will cease to be a welfare state," believes the president of the Finnish Federation of Technological Industries, Jaakko Eskola.more

Experts searching for £200million of Hitler's gold in the grounds of an 18th-century palace in Poland have said Nazi descendants have handed over a letter written by an SS officer that could uncover another lost treasure.more

"No one from the US is pressuring or rushing President Zelensky to sit down at the negotiating table," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby assured yesterday. At the same time, he added that apart from the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, the best solution is a diplomatic end to the conflict.more