Former Bundestag chairman Wolfgang Schaeuble in an interview with the Badische Zeitung newspaper said that there were similarities between the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler, and that it was "obviously a terrifying parallel". The fundamental difference was the fact that Putin did not manage to rapidly conquer the country he attacked.more

The Ukrainian Centre for Countering Disinformation (CPD) reported yesterday that the National Security and Defence Council (NSC) of Ukraine has launched the Occupant website - a database of Russian prisoners of war for their families and friends in Russia.more

Up to 30 percent of companies that have had their taxes deferred due to the coronavirus pandemic will not be able to pay them back, State Secretary for Taxation Marnix van Rij told members of the lower house of parliament (Tweede kamer). The government reckons with a loss of around 6 billion euros.more

Scientists studying the underside of the world's largest ice sheet in East Antarctica have discovered a city-sized lake whose sediments may contain the history of the ice sheet since its beginnings. The work was published in the journal "Gelology".more

Elon Musk has halted his purchase of Twitter, while announcing that he is waiting for details to confirm calculations that spam, or fake accounts, actually account for less than 5 per cent of the service's users.more

The Russians marked houses with white material and then raped the women who lived there, reports the British "The Times", citing the testimony of a 42-year-old Ukrainian woman who was raped by the Russians.more

The war in Ukraine will last several more months - assessed the largest group (42%) of respondents in a Social Changes poll commissioned by the wPolityce.pl portal. 32 percent of respondents said ''it's hard to say''.more

A Chinese spy ship has been detected off the coast of Western Australia. This is aggressive behaviour on Beijing's part, Australian Defence Minister Peter Dutton told a press conference, as quoted by Sky News today.more

At least one person confirmed to be infected with coronavirus has died in North Korea, Reuters reported, quoting a North Korean state media statement today.more

The Spanish prosecutor's office has dropped the 2018 investigation against former King Juan Carlos Bourbon. According to the services, there was a suspicion that he had illegally received multimillion sums from Saudi Arabia.more

Scientists have presented the first image of a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The discovery was reported by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and participants in the project called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Poles also participate in the discovery.more

Saudi Aramco surpassed Apple and became the highest-rated company in the world. The last time Saudi Aramco was number one in 2020, the Financial Times reported. Today, the market capitalization of the Saudi company is $ 2.426 trillion.more

Producers of agricultural products in Germany raised prices to a record level in March, the first month after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine - by an average of 34.7 percent. compared to March 2021. This is the largest year-on-year increase in prices in a given month since the start of the survey in 1961, the German Federal Statistical Office reported.more

The European Commission has proposed new EU rules to prevent and combat the sexual exploitation of children online. According to the new rules, service providers are to be obliged to detect, report and remove pornographic content involving minors.more

The German multinational Siemens will withdraw from Russia due to the war in Ukraine, the company said, pointing to the additional costs and losses incurred in the part of its business responsible for the production of rolling stock as the reason for the decision.more

The US daily Washington Post announced on its website yesterday that it would open a new bureau in Kiev to provide more accurate coverage of the ongoing war with Russia in Ukraine.more

The Canadian government has announced the launch of the first charter flights for Ukrainian war refugees in Poland who have already obtained Canadian visas. Chartered planes will depart from Warsaw.more

The Polish embassy in Moscow was poured with red paint and the call of the Polish ambassador to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs should be interpreted as "retaliation" for what happened on Monday in Warsaw in front of the Mausoleum of Soviet Soldiers - said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Szymon Szynkowski aka Sęk.more

Unemployment in Spain has been among the highest in EU countries for 13 consecutive years, according to a labour market report by the Adecco Group Institute, published by the Spanish daily La Razon.more

The Polish ambassador in Moscow, Krzysztof Krajewski, said yesterday after a visit to the Russian Foreign Ministry that he had reiterated there the position of the foreign minister, Zbigniew Rau, on the incident that took place on 9 May in Warsaw involving the Russian ambassador, Sergei Andreyev.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson signed a "political declaration of solidarity" yesterday in Harpsund, 120 km west of Stockholm. The agreement implies a promise of British support for Sweden in the event of aggression by Russia.more

Pope Francis met today with the wives of two Ukrainian officers from the Azov battalion, whose soldiers are currently defending themselves at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. The young Ukrainian women wrote to the Pope in recent days and in response received an invitation to a general audience, Ansa explained.more

In 2020, 79 per cent of homicides and 53 per cent of suicides in the US were committed with firearms, while the number of homicides involving such weapons was the highest since 1994. - according to Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data released yesterday.more

The French publishing house Grasset has published a collection of speeches by Volodymyr Zelensky since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24. This is the first publication of this type in the world - emphasizes TF1 television, which is referred to by the Ukrinform agency.more

The tech giant on May 10 announced that the fashionable - and for some even iconic - mobile device that debuted 21 years ago is disappearing from the market. The iPod will only be available while supplies last.more