Xavier Espot Zamora is the fifth person in the country's government not to hide his sexual orientation. Previously coming out were Latvian President Edgars Rinkevičs, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.more

Tomorrow (Thursday, September 14), an exhibition devoted to Polish losses during World War II will open in the British Parliament. The event will take place from 12:30 to 14:30 in the Churchill Room and anyone interested can participate, reports the British Poles website.more

Former top ranked Romanian tennis player Simona Halep has been disqualified for four years due to doping, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced yesterday. The 31-year-old had remained suspended since October 2022, when the banned substance roxadustat was detected in her.more

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who met with Vladimir Putin in Russia's Far East today, expressed "full and unconditional" support for all of Russia's actions, including the invasion of Ukraine and the Kremlin's stance toward the West, the Associated Press reported.more

British counterintelligence has confidentially warned the ruling Conservative Party that two of its potential parliamentary candidates may be spies for China, "The Times" has revealed. This is the second case in a week of alleged attempts by China to interfere in British politics.more

The German Football Federation (DFB) has reported a decline in racist and discriminatory incidents in professional leagues in recent years. A different picture emerges from data from the Football Discrimination Reporting Point in North Rhine-Westphalia, which reported, among other things, an increase in the number of Nazi salutes observed and reported.more

Thousands of workers at four London NHS trusts are set to go on strike from Wednesday in a pay and staffing row. more

World champions Argentina scored their second victory in qualifying for the 2026 World Cup. They defeated Bolivia 3:0, while Lionel Messi did not play in the match.more

A senior CIA official reported to Congress that the agency bribed its own analysts investigating the genesis of the Covid-19 pandemic to change their assessment about the origin of the virus from a lab in Wuhan, China, Republican members of the House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence wrote in a letter to the CIA director. Ultimately, the agency said it could not determine the cause of tmore

The British Defense Ministry has been forced to cut training for Ukrainian soldiers at the Lydd Ranges training ground in Kent County in southeastern England by 30 percent due to complaints from local residents about noise nuisance, The Times reported yesterday.more

The referee of Sunday's European Championships football qualifying match between Albania and Poland (2:0) Jose Maria Sanchez Martinez has been investigated for possible involvement in corruption. A total of four soccer referees from Spain have been reported in the case.more

In Barcelona, in the north-east of Spain, there is an increasing phenomenon of crime from the so-called menas, i.e. juvenile immigrants without parental care, mainly from Morocco.more

Plans for a high-speed ferry to and from Canary Wharf that would enable cyclists and pedestrians to cross the Thames in two minutes have been unveiled. River operator Uber Boat by Thames Clippers is proposing up to six crossings an hour at peak times from Surrey Quays from 2025, with journeys costing £2 to £3.more

When Russians shop in Moscow, they hardly notice Western sanctions. You can still find German goods in stores. Russian consumers can choose from a wide range of products at prices, in some cases even lower than in Germany, according to research conducted by SWR.more

The cheapest tickets for next year's European Football Championships in Germany will cost thirty euros, UEFA informed. Sales are scheduled to start on October 3.more

The number of Scots looking for work rose over the summer, according to the latest unemployment figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said up to 4.3% of the workforce was seeking employment from May to July, matching the rate of unemployment for the UK as a whole. more

The consumer association (Consumentenbond) submitted on behalf of 82,000 The Dutch sue Google for collecting data that violates users' privacy. Consumerenbond demands that the American company stop this practice and demands compensation of EUR 750 for each user.more

Exactly 121,610 passengers were served by the airport in Jasionka near Rzeszów in August. This is the best result in the history of the airport. The most frequently chosen destination from the Podkarpackie port was Turkish Antalya.more

Anti-Brexit campaigners have called on Britain to rejoin the EU after it was announced the UK is to return to the bloc’s £85bn Horizon science programme. The agreement means researchers based in the UK can, from Thursday, apply for grants to take part in the collaboration programme after prime minister Rishi Sunak secured what he called “the right deal for British taxpayers”.more

Pay packets are rising at a record rate despite rising unemployment and a marked cooling of the UK’s labour market, the latest official figures shows. The Office for National Statistics said total earnings in the three months to July 2023 were 8.5% higher than in the same period a year earlier – the highest since modern records began in 2001 other than during the exceptional conditions of the panmore

"For now, no decisions have been made regarding Fernando Santos, another meeting between Cezary Kulesza and the coach will be held this week," said Jakub Kwiatkowski, spokesman for the Polish Football Association and team manager of the national team, after the head of the association's conversation with the Portuguese coach.more

Another 9,100 people who work for failed retailer Wilko will be made redundant, administrators confirmed on Monday after talks to save hundreds of shops fell apart.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, commenting on the arrest of an alleged Chinese spy in parliament, assured he would not allow Beijing to interfere with British democracy. However, the government still refuses to label China as a threat.more

A 24-year-old woman was hit by a stray Kalashnikov bullet in her apartment in Marseille during a street clash between drug trafficking gangs.more

The collapse-risk concrete at the centre of a crisis in school buildings has been found in parliament. The presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) poses no “immediate risk”, a parliamentary spokesperson said.more