The Icelandic government has again allowed extremely cruel commercial hunting of the endangered fin whale, the world's second largest mammal. Animal rights organizations protested this decision, reported the British newspaper "Guardian".more

The German Federal Government has given the green light to a new citizenship law, that intends to grant citizenship to foreign nationals living in the country under facilitated rules and procedures.more

There has been an increase in Covid-19 cases in Spain for two months, according to a report published by the Carlos III Health Institute. "Covid is not coming back, it never disappeared," said Oscar Zurriaga, president of the Spanish Epidemiological Society (SEE).more

From Friday, you can no longer rent an electric scooter in Paris. The day before, operators took the last of 15,000 from the streets. vehicles. Paris has thus become the only European capital without electric scooters.more

Stockholm Bromma Airport is the most punctual airport in Europe in 2023 - according to the latest ranking of the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol). The top ten best included Warsaw Chopin Airport. The least punctual airport was Le Bourget near Paris.more

In the face of autumn vaccination campaigns in EU Member States, we have approved a vaccine against COVID-19 adapted to the new variant of the virus, the European Commission announced today.more

In July 2023, the unemployment rate in the euro area was 6.4%. A year earlier in the same month it was 6.7 percent. In turn, the unemployment rate across the EU in July this year. was 5.9 percent (6.1% a year earlier) - Eurostat reported.more

Malaysia and the Philippines followed India in issuing firm statements accusing Beijing of claiming their territories over a new "standard" map of China released this week. Russia, which "lost" part of an island on the Amur River on the map, has not reacted so far.more

"100,000 people can stay in Sweden without a permit. We want to fight the phenomenon of the shadow society, among others, by introducing the obligation for employees of public institutions to notify the police about the presence of illegal immigrants," announced Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.more

September 1, 1939 was a beautiful summer day in northern Germany. The German warship and training ship "Schleswig-Holstein" left the port of Świnoujście on August 24 - officially for a "friendly visit" to the Free City of Danzig. This event became a "prelude to hell," said the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) website. He also recalled the brutal German attack on defenseless Wieluń.more

Australians collecting edible but wild plants were horrified to learn that a live parasite had been removed from the brain of a New South Wales resident. Scientists suspect that a woman collecting plants in a python-inhabited wetland had eaten the eggs of the parasite ophidascaris robertsi, most likely expelled by a host snake, 'The Guardian' daily reported.more

The Mose system of flood barriers installed and already in place in Venice will protect the city and lagoon for the next 100 years, have ruled the scientists who carried out the study commissioned by the commissioner in charge of the multi-billion dollar investment. The aim of the experts' work was to establish the sustainability of the 80 water barriers.more

A 'minimum price for airline tickets' should be introduced in the European Union so that the price of flights reflects social and environmental costs, French Transport Minister Clement Beaune announced in an interview with the weekly magazine L'Obs published yesterday.more

Drones have attacked Russian territory and temporarily occupied Crimea more than 190 times since the start of the year, with Tuesday night's air strikes in six regions of the Russian Federation the largest in 2023, the BBC wrote yesterday.more

Canadians from the LGBTQ community should check local regulations before travelling to the US, the Canadian government has warned in its latest travel advisory. Previously, similar recommendations applied to countries such as Russia and Uganda.more

Airborne toxic particulates are the most potent external factor damaging human health, a new report indicates. However, their impact is mainly in a few countries - Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, China, Nigeria and Indonesia.more

Due to the hurricane-force winds that have been lingering over the Balearic Islands since Sunday, as well as the failure of the UK's air traffic control system, chaos reigns at the Spanish archipelago's major airports, with tourists queuing in the corridors.more

The Turkish carrier Corendon Airlines, following the example of some non-European airlines, announced the introduction of zones on its planes only for passengers over 16 years of age. "Child-free zones" are to appear in the fall, initially only on one route.more

More than 20,000 people, both foreign tourists and Spanish residents, took part yesterday in the annual tomato battle, known as Tomatina, organised in the town of Bunol, in the east of the country.more

Self-service checkouts are one of the factors that may increase Americans' sense of loneliness - reports the Insider website, citing PlayUSA research. According to this poll, two-thirds of Americans believe that technology makes it harder for people to socialize.more

According to the latest report by the Emancipation Observatory of the Spanish Youth Council (CJE), for the first time in 20 years the average age at which young people in Spain become independent from their parents has exceeded 30.more

Meta has announced that it has identified and disrupted China's largest propaganda operation to date, removing more than 8,000 images. fake accounts spreading anti-Western and pro-Chinese propaganda. The owner of Facebook also took action against Russian accounts impersonating well-known media and official profiles, including Polish authorities.more

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France's largest air traffic controllers' union SNCTA has announced a nationwide strike for September 15, demanding wage increases, the daily "Le Figaro" reported.more

In smaller companies, full-time remote work is more popular than in the largest ones, according to analysts of the Polish Economic Institute. They added that, for example, in the US, in companies employing less than 500 people, 76 percent of employees work remotely. staff, and in the largest - 16 percent.more