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

Florida police have detained a man they believe was planning to assassinate former President Donald Trump, law enforcement officials said. The would-be attacker hid in bushes near a golf course where the Republican candidate was playing.more

Astronomers indicate that on Tuesday, September 17, at a small distance for cosmic distances, an object that could be as much as half a kilometer in diameter will pass us. It is called (2024 ON).more

Germany has agreed to open its labor market to 250,000 Kenyans, both skilled and semi-skilled, in an agreement signed Friday by Kenyan President William Ruto and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.more

The police have detained the son of the wife of the heir to the Norwegian throne, Princess Mette-Marit, Marius Berg Hoeiby, who violated a court order prohibiting him from approaching the women he had wronged.more

The West is afraid to talk about shooting down Russian missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a conference in Kiev on Friday. During his speech, he declared, among other things, that he would meet with US President Joe Biden in September and present him with his plan to end the war.more

Illegal migration to Europe via the central Mediterranean route has fallen by 35 per cent this year compared to 2023. - AP reported on Friday citing UN data. At the same time, more people are trying to reach the Canary Islands and the route across the eastern Mediterranean to Greece.more

They tested how to separate drunken worms from sober worms, spooked cows to check milk leaks from their udders, and unmasked fake centenarians - the authors of the bizarre and hilarious research received statuettes and $100 trillion at the 34th Ig Nobel ceremony.more

Around 600 members of gangs operating in Sweden are hiding in 57 countries, including Poland, from where they carry out their criminal activities, according to a report by the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish police.more

Russian leader Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that if the West allows Ukraine to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles, it will mean that ‘NATO countries are at war with Russia’.more

Tourists currently have to pay from twenty-five to several hundred euros per day to rent two sunbeds and an umbrella in Italian beach clubs. As the European Commission argues, the reason for this state of affairs is primarily the issue of unregulated beach concessions. This is set to change soon.more

During Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, fragments of missiles and drones were found in neighboring countries at least 34 times, the independent Russian portal Verstka wrote yesterday, citing its own calculations.more

Russian pranksters claim to have spoken with the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski. They pretended to be former President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and asked about help for Kiev. The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paweł Wroński, stated that he had not heard about the case. The conversation was reported by the media in Russia today.more

A court in the northern Portuguese city of Braga yesterday ordered Ryanair to refund a passenger the €56.50 hand luggage fee it charged, plus interest and legal costs.more