The human rights situation in Belarus is "catastrophic" and only getting worse, warned the UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus, Anais Marin, at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council.more

Businesses have lost an estimated one billion euros due to the ongoing unrest across France since last Tuesday, Medef, France's largest employers' organization, estimated on Monday.more

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has cleared the flying car prototype of a California startup. It notified UPI on Monday.more

Afghanistan's ruling Taliban announced today that all beauty salons in the country must close within a month, a new measure aimed at removing women from public life, reports AFP.more

Inflation is falling in Italy, but in June an anomaly was recorded in the form of an "astronomical" increase in food prices, by up to 46 percent on an annual basis. This is reported by the daily Il Messaggero, based on data from the Istat Statistical Institute. As noted, this may be the result of speculation. According to the government, intervention is needed.more

Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine. The tech may also be sold overseas.more

To counter labor shortages, Germany needs 1.5 million immigrants a year, estimates economist Monika Schnitzer. In doing so, specialists do not necessarily need to know German - it is more important that immigration office employees speak English, explained Schnitzer, who heads the government's council of experts.more

There was no accident on the Stena Spirit ferry, the woman and child fell overboard as a result of a conscious act, the Danish Maritime Accident Commission reported yesterday. On Thursday, two Polish citizens - a 36-year-old woman and a 7-year-old boy - fell off the ferry; they were found, but died in the hospital.more

The rusting remains of eight British Hurricane fighter planes dating back to World War Two have been found buried in a forest in Ukraine. The aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union by Britain after Nazi Germany invaded the country in 1941.more

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has decided to introduce time slots to security checks to combat queues, according to the airport management of the Dutch capital.more

A Polish climber died while descending from the top of the eight-thousander Nanga Parbat in the western part of the Himalayas in Pakistan, reported the Nanga Parbat Climbers Facebook profile, which publishes information about mountain expeditions.more

Vladimir Putin, the dictator from the Kremlin, has lost control of his country. Russia will fall apart and the world must prepare for it, warned Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, in an interview with the Bild daily.more

Russian spies operating in in the United States and Norway, they use illegally obtained Brazilian passports. In Brazil, authorities are investigating whether Moscow is using the country as an incubator for secret agents who will infiltrate the West, the Wall Street Journal reports.more

Australia becomes the first country to legalize the medical psychedelics MDMA and psilocybin. They can now be legally prescribed to treat certain persistent mental health conditions, including depression, Sky News reported.more

Google has developed a groundbreaking quantum computer that instantly performs calculations that would take decades for other supercomputers. The company's latest technology is "beyond the capabilities of existing classical supercomputers," say its designers.more

One of the world's oldest newspapers, Austria's Wiener Zeitung, is no longer published 320 years after its debut in August 1703, the AP news agency reported. "320 years, 12 presidents, 10 emperors, 2 republics - 1 newspaper" was the title of the material on the front page.more

Family Affairs Minister Eugenia Roccella has criticized giving dogs human names. She expressed the opinion that in this way feelings and needs are transferred to animals. Pope Francis recently addressed this topic.more

486 people were arrested during the fifth night of riots and clashes with the police in France. Destroying schools, media rooms, city hall buildings, attacking policemen, firemen and rescuers, senseless brutality - the attack on institutions we are witnessing is a symptom of the savagery of society - claims historian Pierre Vermeren.more

There is no doubt that during the last public appearance of the Russian president on Thursday, it was a Putin lookalike, and not the Russian dictator himself, writes the portal of the American weekly "Newsweek", based on the assessment of experts.more

Every minute, 11 football fields of forest disappear; in 2022, the earth lost tropical forests the size of Switzerland, according to new research from the World Resources Institute (WRI).more

The perpetrator of the recent act of vandalism in the Colosseum, which carved initials on the wall with a key, is a resident of Great Britain, as was the woman accompanying him at the time, the carabiniers from Rome have established. This was possible thanks to the recording provided to the management of the monument by tourists - witnesses of the event.more

Prices in Croatia jumped dramatically after the country joined the Eurozone in early 2023. Until recently, a relatively cheap direction is now scary with prices, notes the Austrian daily "Kronen Zeitung".more

One of the world's most popular artificial sweeteners, aspartame, could be added to the WHO list of potentially carcinogenic compounds next month.more

Virgin Atlantic, owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, launched commercial rocket flights into space yesterday. Three Italians made the first flight - two air force officers and an aviation engineer.more

The child and mother found themselves yesterday afternoon overboard the Stena Spirit ferry sailing from Sweden to Poland. They were found and taken by helicopter to the hospital, the Swedish Maritime and Air Rescue Center said.more