German railroads had to halt train traffic in northern Germany today due to a malfunction. Deutsche Bahn claims there was sabotage. According to the Bild daily portal, unknown persons cut important fiber optic cables in Dortmund (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen.more

A member of Putin's inner circle of associates lashed out at the president for criticizing the war in Ukraine and the mistakes being made in it, the Washington Post reported yesterday, citing intelligence service information. This is supposed to be a signal of growing tensions within the Russian government's inner circle.more

During the 9th edition of the "Outstanding Pole in France" contest, Poles distinguished in their professions who contribute to the promotion of Poland in France were honored: scientists, artists, businessmen and social activists.more

Ukraine's Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported today, citing sources, that the explosion that occurred this morning on a bridge built by Russia into annexed Crimea was a special operation by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The SBU has not commented on this opinion.more

The German government expects a recession in 2023. Information accessed by the ARD station shows that GDP growth is expected to be just 1.4 percent this year, and the German economy will begin to contract in 2023. Inflation will also rise.more

After more than 120 years, the iconic Paris metro tickets are now history. They will replace them with card or telephone payments. Cardboard tickets will be valid only until 2025.more

The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 are the head of the Belarusian Center for Human Rights Viasna Ales Bialiatski, the Russian organization investigating Stalinist crimes Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced today.more

Many fuel stations in France have had mile-long queues of cars for days. About 15 percent of the country's stations are out of fuel, mainly due to wage strikes at oil companies.more

"Putin has been in power for more than 22 years, and this has chased away all institutions in Russia. Before he was a spy, he was a gangster. What do gangsters do? They make sure there are no new people except the ones they grew up with. There are no institutions in Russia to replace this gangster system." - says John Sweeney author of "Killer in the Kremlin", published this year.more

The water scarcity worsening in Spain is due not only to low rainfall and progressive heat waves, but also to too many swimming pools in the Spanish municipalities.more

Almost half of the crimes in the Red Light District in the capital of the Netherlands are committed by foreigners, according to data presented by the capital city hall. Police are alerting that criminals are increasingly applying for asylum and cannot be expelled from the country.more

According to the German government's energy saving ordinance, working spaces in public buildings should be heated to a maximum of 19 degrees. Occupational medicine doctors warn, however, that too cold rooms are not advisable when performing many jobs, especially when sitting and requiring little physical effort - informs the website of the weekly "Spiegel".more

It costs less than half a cent to charge a cell phone, and it costs 0.05 euros to make a toast in a toaster, according to the Italian press in early October, when the price of energy rose 59 percent. Italians are increasingly disciplined in terms of energy savings and look for them wherever they can.more

Ukraine has started a new phase of the offensive in the Kherson Oblast, putting Russians in a dilemma of whether to defend the entire area or concentrate on the most viable parts of the region, the British defense ministry said today.more

The crew members assigned to NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission are in orbit following their launch to the International Space Station noon EDT Wednesday, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The international crew will serve as the agency’s fifth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX aboard the orbital laboratory. more

Today, a one-day strike by Eurowings pilots, part of the Lufthansa group, began, the spokesman for the pilots' trade union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) said in the morning.more

Actually, no one should be compared to Hitler, not even Putin. But the parallels in Hitler's fall to Putin's current situation are striking, notes Nikolaus Blome in the Spiegel weekly. Are these the last days not in Hitler's bunker in Berlin, but somewhere in the Kremlin? - the author wonders.more

In less than two weeks after Vladimir Putin announced mobilization, some 700,000 people left Russia, 200,000 of whom went to Kazakhstan, Forbes magazine reported in its Russian edition. It is unclear how many plan to return.more

Elon Musk has once again changed his mind and stated that he is ready to buy Twitter for the $44 billion price originally agreed with the service, Reuters reported yesterday.more

The government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Tuesday that free rail travel on medium-distance and suburban routes will be in effect in the country in 2023.more

Inflation in Germany rose to 10 percent in September - the highest level since 1951. Consumers, however, see the price increase differently. According to the survey, perceived inflation among Germans is 34.2 percent, the Welt newspaper's website reported.more

EU member states last night reached an agreement on an eighth package of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, an EU source said. Another diplomatic source said that some details still need to be clarified and this will happen today.more

The average electricity user in Los Angeles spends $269 per month on electricity. In megadomes, the bill can run into the tens of thousands, and in extreme cases reach 50,000.more

The number of deaths in Europe is rising among patients using drugs created from a combination of ibuprofen and codeine, Spanish media outlet EFE and daily La Razon reported, citing European Medicines Agency (EMA) experts wishing to remain anonymous.more

Former US President Donald Trump came close to relieving his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner from their advisory role and flushed papers in the White House toilet - that's one of the many pieces of information in journalist Maggie Haberman's book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America ".more