The Greenland ice cap is losing an average of 30m tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis, a study has revealed, which is 20% more than was previously thought.more

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump announced yesterday in an interview with Sinclair Media Group that if he is not elected to the highest office in the land this year, he will not participate in the next election in 2028.more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in the US, where he will attend the annual session of the UN General Assembly. According to the Ukrainian president, the war with Russia is entering a decisive phase. The coming months will be decisive for the situation on the frontline and the end of the war.more

Diseases caused by pathogens resistant to available antimicrobial drugs could cause the deaths of more than 39 million people over the next 25 years and indirectly contribute to another 169 million deaths, according to a forecast published in the prestigious medical journal Lancet.more

There are currently 95,119 people in Japan who are over the age of 100, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Their number has been growing continuously for 54 years. As many as 88 percent of seniors (83,958) are women, while there are 11,161 men in this age group.more

Barcelona authorities are helping to finance the legal costs of victims of repeat pickpockets who have become a plague in the Catalan capital, the daily La Vanguardia reported on Monday. The pilot program, whose results are awaiting final evaluation, was launched in mid-August. The police have a list of criminals who have committed petty thefts or robberies involving violence.more

The tourism industry in the EU has more than recovered from the pandemic, Eurostat data shows. 2.3 per cent more nights were rented in 2023 than in pre-pandemic 2019. Short-term rental platforms saw the most pronounced increase of almost 30 per cent.more

Former President Donald Trump's visit to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Pennsylvania has been cancelled, an insider to the Republican candidate's plans confirmed yesterday.more

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The French daily "Le Monde" assesses that Poland has become "a new key player in Europe", which was helped by the development of its economy and "acceleration of changes in the geopolitical context". The daily emphasizes the unprecedented increase in Poland's defense spending.more

Radio waves from Elon Musk’s growing network of satellites are blocking scientists’ ability to peer into the universe, according to researchers in the Netherlands. The new generation of Starlink satellites, which provide fast internet around the world, are interfering more with radio telescopes than earlier versions, they say.more

The new Dutch coalition government headed by Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom party (PVV) appears to be on a collision course with the EU over immigration after formally asking Brussels for an opt-out on asylum rules.more

A German tourist who lost her leg in a shark attack some 500 km from the Canary Islands died hours later aboard a rescue helicopter, EFE news agency reported on Tuesday.more

Each successive escalation - from HIMARS to ATACMS - brings the world closer to ‘armageddon’ - wrote the son of former president Donald Trump jr. along with Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy jr. on The Hill website. In doing so, the authors warned the Biden administration against allowing Ukraine to use US missiles to strike deep into Russian territory.more

Europeans will become less and less prosperous if the EU does not change its economic course. The Community must invest more in innovation by companies and people and reduce energy prices. This will require public investment, argued former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi during a debate in the EP in Strasbourg.more

A power bank and an e-cigarette exploded on board an EasyJet flight due to leave Iraklion in Greek Crete for the UK yesterday, Greek TV station SKAI reported. Passengers were evacuated. No one was injured.more

Billionaire Elon Musk's comments, in which he accused US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of saying no one had ever tried to assassinate them, were condemned by many social media users and the White House as an incitement to violence, the BBC reported yesterday.more

For the third year in a row, Switzerland has taken first place in the US News and World Report's list of the world's best countries. The ranking takes into account dozens of different factors. The Alpine country has overtaken Japan and the United States in the list. Poland has placed 37th.more

Meta, which owns Facebook, announced yesterday that it would block the Kremlin's RT television and other Russian state media from its apps. Meta claims that these media outlets are trying to influence the results of the American election in various ways.more

At least 16 people have died after severe flooding swept across Europe, leading to widespread evacuations and helicopter rescues. Record rainfall has caused flooding in several central European countries since Thursday, including Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania.more

An explosive device detonated on Monday morning next to a club near the Hohenzollernring in the center of Cologne, in western Germany. According to the daily "Bild," the only person injured in the explosion was a 53-year-old Polish citizen.more

Milan, Rome and Florence are the least safe cities in Italy. A ranking based on crime rates was published yesterday by the daily Il Sole 24 Ore. The top ten places in this ranking are occupied, the analysis noted, by cities massively visited by tourists.more

Russia is aiming to win a war with Ukraine before 2026, as it expects the economic situation to deteriorate and problems with the recruitment of soldiers next year, writes the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), analysing a speech by the head of Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR), General Kyryla Budanov.more

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday approved Bavarian Nordic's monkeypox vaccine and declared it safe and effective. As WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced, this is an important step in the fight against the disease.more

Temporary controls at all German land borders began today and will remain in place for at least six months. The head of Germany's Interior Ministry Nancy Faeser assured the ‘Bild am Sonntag’ newspaper yesterday that the controls would not cause long queues at the borders.more