The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin will have a marginal impact on the war in Ukraine, but it shows that Russia is a gangster state, said British military analyst Prof. Michael Clarke.more

House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that the chamber could launch an investigation as early as September as part of impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden over alleged corruption related to his and his son's activities. Republicans are demanding documents from Biden, including bank and credit card statements.more

The British King Charles III has agreed that a small airport in Le Touquet in northern France should bear the name of his mother, Elizabeth II, who died last September, authorities at the resort, described as "the most British of French resorts," have conveyed.more

The world's best airline in 2023 is Japan Airlines, the daily Le Soir reported on Tuesday. In contrast, Indonesia's Wings Air was named the worst carrier.more

Germany had reported almost 3,400 foreigners for transfer to Poland by the end of July. So far, 495 people have been sent back, reported Border Guard spokeswoman Lt. Anna Michalska. The repatriated foreigners are, for example, people who were illegally in Germany and had previously been in Poland.more

The government-bought house in Braunau, Austria, where Adolf Hitler was born, is to become both a police station and a place where human rights training for police officers will take place. Austrian filmmaker Guenter Schwaiger warned that the plans could turn out to coincide with the Third Reich leader's expectations, and urged authorities in Vienna to rethink the decision.more

A young Polish man was raped at a subway station in Munich. How could this have happened? - asks the Bild daily portal. The victim is an 18-year-old student at a language school. The alleged perpetrator is a 20-year-old from Afghanistan. Police have determined that the rape occurred between 2:35 and 3:05 a.m. on Saturday night.more

The Spanish Civil Guard intercepted the yacht Rossio, sailing under the Polish flag, at sea near the Canary Islands. As much as 700 kg of cocaine in packages was found on board. Four people were detained - two Italians, one Croatian and one Serbian.more

In 2022, almost 218,000 migrants applied for asylum in Germany - more than in France (around 140,000) and Italy (77,000) combined. Nowhere in the EU are so many asylum seekers as in Germany. According to the expert, the level of social benefits is not a decisive factor. Some countries pay more than Germany.more

The number of foreign doctors working in Belgium has doubled over the last decade to more than 10,000. - reported the Politico news portal, citing data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).more

In the first quarter of 2023, greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union economy amounted to a total of 941 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, a decrease of 2.9 percent. compared to the same quarter of 2022 (969 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent). This decrease occurred simultaneously with the growth of EU GDP in the first quarter of 2023 by 1.2%. compared to the same quarter of 2022more

The signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, followed by the outbreak of World War II, opened one of the darkest chapters in European history, announced the vice-president of the European Commission Viera Jourova and Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders on the eve of the 84th anniversary of the signing of the agreement between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union.more

In 12 Italian cities, including Rome and Florence, the highest level of alert has been in effect since yesterday due to heat reaching 40 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow the number of these cities will increase to 17, announced the local health ministry.more

Greek firefighters are fighting spreading forest fires today in the Boeotia region north of Athens, on the islands of Euboea and Kitnos, and in the northeast of the country in East Macedonia and Thrace. Two people were killed and evacuations were ordered, reports France24.more

The first tropical storm in over 80 years, Hilary caused record-breaking rainfall and flooding in California and Nevada, although so far the worst-case scenarios have not materialized, the media reported. Due to flooding, the national park in Death Valley was closed, and the desert resort of Palm Springs was cut off from the rest of the world.more

Belgians ranked fourth in the world in terms of average daily calorie intake, The Brussels Times reported yesterday.more

UK specialists have published the first findings of a new variant of a coronavirus called Pirola, recently detected on three continents - Europe, the US and Israel.more

Ukraine has so far received only 60 Leopard tanks, instead of the promised several hundred, the British weekly 'The Economist' reported yesterday, citing a source at the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.more

For the sixth consecutive quarter, the number of bankruptcy filings by EU companies increased in 2023. Compared to the previous quarter, the number of insolvencies rose by 8.4 per cent and thus reached its highest level since data collection began in 2015, Eurostat reported.more

The oldest Italian, Tripolino Giannini, from the town of Cecina near Livorno in Tuscany, turned 111 yesterday. He has lived there since he was born and had a fruit and vegetable shop in the town. He survived two world wars and two pandemics: the flu and Covid-19.more

France's biggest heatwave of the year is spreading south and east, affecting 49 of the country's 101 departments, the daily Le Figaro reported, citing the Meteo-France state meteorological service.more

The mayors of cities in regions in northern Italy are protesting against the obligation imposed on them to accommodate more and more migrants in local centres because it is ruining their budgets, the daily newspaper La Stampa reported. This is the result of a massive migrant wave. More than 100,000 migrants have already arrived since the beginning of the year; twice as many as a year ago.more

According to the latest Global Wealth Report, financial inequality between residents is the highest of all the countries surveyed in Brazil, the USA and India. Belgium performs best in this respect, where it is the smallest.more

The Russian space probe Luna-25 crashed on the moon, the Russian space agency Roskosmos reported, quoted by Reuters and AFP. It was the first Russian lunar mission since 1976.more

A record temperature of 13.3 degrees was recorded yesterday at the top of the Marmolada massif in Italy, the highest in the Dolomites, located at 3,343 meters above sea level. When a giant fragment of the glacier collapsed there over a year ago, resulting in the deaths of 11 people, the temperature was 12.7 degrees, experts remind.more