The Czech Republic is the least accessible country in Europe due to the possibility of owning your own apartment, the purchase of a new apartment is an average of 13.31 gross annual salaries, according to a report by the consulting company Deloitte. The best in this respect are, among others Ireland and Denmark; Poland is in the middle of the pack.more
Russian authorities have announced the severance of an agreement with Japan allowing former residents visa-free visits to Moscow-controlled disputed islands. The government in Tokyo has issued a protest, Kyodo news agency reported, setting this in tensions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.more
Hundreds of Dutch people are forced to live in their cars and their numbers are increasing, reports the RTL Nieuws portal. This new form of homelessness is a consequence of poverty and lack of housing, the portal assesses.more
Despite requests from Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has refused to hand over heavy armaments to Kiev, especially Leopard 2 tanks. The authorities in Berlin do not see this as a possibility, although one armaments concern is ready to support Ukraine, the weekly "Spiegel" reported.more
Russia is buying millions of artillery shells and short-range missiles from North Korea, demonstrating the effectiveness of economic sanctions imposed on the Kremlin. The restrictions have severely limited Moscow's ability to import, the "New York Times" reported yesterday, following a US intelligence report.more
The trade union has called on the pilots to go on a two-day strike that will start tomorrow if Lufthansa does not enter the collective bargaining. Customers have little understanding of the attitude of well-paid pilots, comments the daily "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" website.more
Actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller were among 25 US citizens banned from entering Russia, Bloomberg reported yesterday. The sanctions introduced by the Kremlin also included officials and businessmen and are in retaliation for US restrictions on Russia.more
Belgian and Israeli media are reporting that cars with the number plates appeared on the streets 'HH-88' and '1-RAS-88', which directly refer to Hitler and Nazism, are increasingly being driven on Belgian roads.more
The Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport Authority will start building a new terminal, reports the daily "Financieele Dagblad". The airport expansion is expected to cost one billion euros and will be completed in 2032.more
Clemens Fuest, head of the Munich-based economic research institute (Ifo), in an interview with the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, predicts a sharp economic slowdown.more
Spain and Portugal are among the countries with the highest increase in deaths in Europe, according to the latest Eurostat figures from June 2022. Europe has seen an average of 6.2 per cent more deaths since the arrival of the coronavirus, reports the daily "ABC".more
Delegates from nine countries representing more than five hundred indigenous peoples and tribes who came to the five-day conference of the Coordinating Committee of the Amazon Indigenous Peoples' Organisation (CICA), which began today, announced an appeal to humanity to "save the world's endangered lungs".more
Rich countries that have not fulfilled their promises to reduce emissions are responsible for climate collapse and a bleak vision for the future of the world should pay reparations to countries hit by devastating floods, Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's Minister for Climate Change, told the Guardian.more
The United States is not hopeful that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to end the war in Ukraine, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby stated in an interview with the independent Russian TV channel 'Dodzhd', excerpts of which are quoted by the Ukrainska Pravda portal.more
Charles Michel, President of the European Council, stated that the European Commission should not wait until Ursula von der Leyen's speech scheduled for September 14 on solving the energy crisis and reducing the price of Russian gas, writes Politico.more
How to cook pasta in the era of high gas and electricity prices - such advice appears in the media in Italy. The idea of the Nobel Prize winner in physics, Giorgio Parisi, who proposed to partially cook the paste with the burner off, is a real sensation.more
Two fires that broke out on Friday in Siskiyou County, California, USA, devastated an area totaling nearly 3,000. hectares and forced the evacuation of thousands of residents. Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency there.more
NASA canceled the Space Launch System rocket launch on Saturday as part of the Artemis I mission due to a fuel leak. Earlier on Monday, the mission was canceled due to a failure of one of the engines.more
The last leader of the USSR and the creator of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, rested yesterday at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. The politician, who died at the age of 91, was buried in the family grave next to his wife - Raisa.more
The United States believes that Russia is facing “severe” shortages of military personnel in Ukraine and is seeking new ways to increase its troop levels, two US officials told CNN.more
Bee venom destroys aggressive breast cancer cells. This discovery by Australian scientists raises high hopes because it concerns two types of this cancer that are difficult to treat. For now, however, it is not known whether bee venom will be effective not only in laboratory experiments, but also in the treatment of cancer patients.more
A pilot has been flying an airplane over the city of Tupelo in Mississippi, US, in circles for hours and threatening to intentionally crash it into a WalMart store, confirmed police on Saturday.more
A recent study from Bounce - a travel company that allows users to store their luggage in local shops around the world - analyzed over 30 countries and ranked the best destinations for women to travel alone in 2022.more
Australia's permanent Migration Programme ceiling will be going up to 195,000 in 2022-23, 35,000 higher than the previous cap, according to the government, in a bid to "help ease widespread, critical workforce shortages" across the country.more
