There are many indications that 2024 will be a record year for Japan in terms of the number of foreign tourists visiting the country. It has its good and bad sides. The first one is undoubtedly a huge injection of money into the national economy. However, masses of tourists cause more and more problems in the Land of the Rising Sun.more

US aerospace and defence conglomerate Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to criminal fraud related to the fatal 737 Max crashes. It also paid a fine of $487.2 million.more

Ukrainian authorities have detained a group of individuals who were preparing a series of arson attacks on civilian facilities and critical infrastructure in Poland and the Baltic States on behalf of Russia, the Office of the Prosecutor General in Kiev said today.more

‘America is at a turning point, it must choose between hope and hate, between moving forward and moving backward, democracy is in your hands,’ - announced President Joe Biden yesterday in a speech to the nation in which he explained the reasons for his resignation from running for the US presidency.more

The authorities of Vienna are banning barbecues due to the drought that has been going on for several weeks. The city warns residents of the high risk of forest fires and asks them to be careful.more

Sunday, July 21, was the world's warmest day on record, according to data from the European climate change monitoring service Copernicus, which has been tracking global weather phenomena since 1940. On that day, the average air temperature on the Earth's surface reached 17.09 degrees Celsius.more

US Vice President and informal Democratic candidate for President of the United States Kamala Harris started her election campaign yesterday. She took part in her first campaign rally, which took place in Wisconsin.more

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The European Commission and European consumer protection authorities said on Monday that US tech giant Meta, owner of Facebook and WhatsApp, may be violating consumer protection laws with its business model.more

Problems with water supply to homes and with crop irrigation, puddle-like lakes - this is the situation in some areas of Sicily, where persistent temperatures of up to 40 degrees for more than two weeks have exacerbated the drought crisis. Severe agricultural losses are being reported.more

Ryanair says it expects summer fares will be much lower than last year after profits at the no-frills airline fell by almost 50%. The company said "frugal" passengers were cutting back while the timing of Easter holidays had also hit earnings, with profit before tax slumping 46% to €401m (£338m) in the three months to 30 June when compared with a year ago.more

US Vice President Kamala Harris travelled to Wilmington, Delaware yesterday to meet campaign staff. Harris announced, among other things, that she would fight for women's right to abortion, as well as strengthen the middle class. At least 2,579 Democratic delegates have declared their support for her as the party's candidate in the US presidential election.more

Yesterday, an attacker with a gun stormed into a retirement home in the town of Daruvar in central Croatia and opened fire. He killed five people on the spot and wounded several more, one of whom died of his wounds in hospital, Croatian Health Minister Vili Berosz reported.more

Questioned by the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee yesterday, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle stated that the attempted assassination of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was the agency's "biggest operational failure" in decades.more

Several thousand residents of Majorca protested yesterday in Palma de Mallorca, the main city of this Balearic island, against the mass influx of tourists.more

Sandra Hemme was 20 years old when she was found guilty in November 1980 of killing library employee Patricia Jeschke of St. Joseph, Missouri. She was sentenced to life imprisonment. On Friday, she was released after 43 years in prison - reports the BBC.more

"The anniversary of this event is always my hardest day of the year," admitted Magdalena Fahre, head of the 22nd of July Center, a center documenting the terrorist attack on the Norwegian island of Utoya. Exactly 13 years ago, on July 22, 2011, 77 people died there and over 300 were injured.more

President Joe Biden, 81,'s decision to withdraw from the race for a second term in the White House was unexpected after weeks of resisting calls from many Democrats for him to step down. According to mainstream American media, it created chaos and shock.more

There will be more police on the popular tourist island of Zakynthos, announced the Greek authorities. There are problems with drugs and fights on the island, especially in frequently visited places - wrote the eKathimerini portal.more

In Kiev, at the Baikal Cemetery, the largest necropolis in the capital, a farewell ceremony was held yesterday for Polish soldier of the International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine Tomasz Marcin Sękala, who was killed in the Luhansk region.more

A publicly available European application for monitoring the occurrence of ticks is expected to be ready in the coming months. Work on this tool is part of the growing trend of citizen science, i.e. the involvement of ordinary people, rather than experts, in scientific research.more

The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Italy warns Polish tourists against thefts in a suggestive campaign. The facility posted the following entry on social media: "Attention! Free MacBooks and high-end cameras! Where? In tourists' cars in Italy. For whom? For thieves. You are on vacation, they are at work."more

16 species of insects, including crickets, locusts and silkworms, have been approved as food in Singapore, the Food Agency of Singapore said. Insects may be intended for human consumption or used as animal feed.more

In the strategy of war of attrition that Russia adopted in the war in Ukraine, the problem is not people, but increasingly exhausting supplies of equipment, in particular tanks and armored vehicles - wrote the British weekly "The Economist".more

After the failure of Microsoft systems, Wizz Air informs that passengers whose flights were canceled will receive an automatic 120% refund. ticket costs in the form of WIZZ Credits within 24 hours of the scheduled departure. They can also apply to change their reservation or request a refund using a different payment method.more