Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic candidate in the November US presidential elections, is considering only three candidates for the position of vice president. These people are Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Bloomberg revealed.more

An insult to Leonardo da Vinci, a parody of his "Last Supper" with the participation of a drag queen, an attack on Christian values ​​- this is how some of the elements of Friday's inauguration of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris are summarized by the center-right Italian daily "Il Giornale". more

The last weekend of July in Italy is the hottest so far this year, meteorologists warn. The severe heatwave with temperatures reaching 40 degrees C coincides with millions of people going on holiday and traffic jams on the motorways.more

Real sanctions against the Kremlin, a strengthening of Nato, a lend-lease for Ukraine and the lifting of restrictions on the use of US weapons in its war against Russia - according to former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, these are all elements of Donald Trump's plan for Ukraine should the Republican win the presidential election.more

Humanity must confront the ‘epidemic of extreme heat’ it has caused, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Thursday. According to scientists, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were the warmest days on Earth in the history of measuring.more

An image campaign for Poland prepared by the Polish Tourist Organisation is underway in the Paris metro. Posters with the slogan ‘next stop - Poland’ encourage visitors to visit Warsaw, Krakow and other cities that can be reached by plane from Paris.more

A priest from the Warsaw archdiocese was arrested on Wednesday in Waldviertel in Lower Austria in connection with a violation of an anti-drug law, the daily ‘Der Kurier’ reported today. According to the Austrian media, the clergyman produced and distributed so-called hard drugs.more

Europeans continue to drink the most alcohol in the world, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report published yesterday. The average European consumes 9.2 litres of pure spirit in a year.more

French rail operator SNCF announced today that it had been the victim of a ‘massive attack aimed at paralysing the (high-speed train) TGV network’. The attack occurred just hours before the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Paris.more

There are some doubts as to whether Donald Trump was shot or injured by a fragment of a teleprompter - the AFP agency reported yesterday, citing the words of FBI Director Chris Wray. He testified on Wednesday in the US Congress before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.more

There are many indications that 2024 will be a record year for Japan in terms of the number of foreign tourists visiting the country. It has its good and bad sides. The first one is undoubtedly a huge injection of money into the national economy. However, masses of tourists cause more and more problems in the Land of the Rising Sun.more

US aerospace and defence conglomerate Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to criminal fraud related to the fatal 737 Max crashes. It also paid a fine of $487.2 million.more

Ukrainian authorities have detained a group of individuals who were preparing a series of arson attacks on civilian facilities and critical infrastructure in Poland and the Baltic States on behalf of Russia, the Office of the Prosecutor General in Kiev said today.more

‘America is at a turning point, it must choose between hope and hate, between moving forward and moving backward, democracy is in your hands,’ - announced President Joe Biden yesterday in a speech to the nation in which he explained the reasons for his resignation from running for the US presidency.more

The authorities of Vienna are banning barbecues due to the drought that has been going on for several weeks. The city warns residents of the high risk of forest fires and asks them to be careful.more

Sunday, July 21, was the world's warmest day on record, according to data from the European climate change monitoring service Copernicus, which has been tracking global weather phenomena since 1940. On that day, the average air temperature on the Earth's surface reached 17.09 degrees Celsius.more

US Vice President and informal Democratic candidate for President of the United States Kamala Harris started her election campaign yesterday. She took part in her first campaign rally, which took place in Wisconsin.more

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The European Commission and European consumer protection authorities said on Monday that US tech giant Meta, owner of Facebook and WhatsApp, may be violating consumer protection laws with its business model.more

Problems with water supply to homes and with crop irrigation, puddle-like lakes - this is the situation in some areas of Sicily, where persistent temperatures of up to 40 degrees for more than two weeks have exacerbated the drought crisis. Severe agricultural losses are being reported.more

Ryanair says it expects summer fares will be much lower than last year after profits at the no-frills airline fell by almost 50%. The company said "frugal" passengers were cutting back while the timing of Easter holidays had also hit earnings, with profit before tax slumping 46% to €401m (£338m) in the three months to 30 June when compared with a year ago.more

US Vice President Kamala Harris travelled to Wilmington, Delaware yesterday to meet campaign staff. Harris announced, among other things, that she would fight for women's right to abortion, as well as strengthen the middle class. At least 2,579 Democratic delegates have declared their support for her as the party's candidate in the US presidential election.more

Yesterday, an attacker with a gun stormed into a retirement home in the town of Daruvar in central Croatia and opened fire. He killed five people on the spot and wounded several more, one of whom died of his wounds in hospital, Croatian Health Minister Vili Berosz reported.more

Questioned by the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee yesterday, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle stated that the attempted assassination of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was the agency's "biggest operational failure" in decades.more

Several thousand residents of Majorca protested yesterday in Palma de Mallorca, the main city of this Balearic island, against the mass influx of tourists.more