Moscow-installed authorities urged residents in the southern Kherson region — which the Kremlin claims to have annexed — to leave the main city “immediately” in the face of Kyiv’s advancing counter-offensive. “Due to the tense situation on the front,…
Giorgia Meloni sworn in as Italy’s first female prime minister
Giorgia Meloni, whose political party with neo-fascist roots, Brothers of Italy, emerged victorious in recent elections, was sworn in on Saturday as Italy’s first far-right prime minister since the end of World War II. Meloni, who is also Italy’s first…
What are sponge cities and could they solve China’s water crisis?
Our relationship with water has been thrown fatally off balance in many parts of the world this year. More than 600 people have died in Nigeria’s worst floods in decades this month. The floods that claimed 1,719 lives and engulfed a third of Pakistan a…
Completed the Camino de Santiago? Here are some alternative walking routes to try
The Camino de Santiago is one of the most walked routes in the history of humanity. Every year almost 350,000 people complete the pilgrimage which ends at the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. But that also means the route is busy. While it brings the …
World’s oldest Ottoman documents offer window into Empire’s early history
In a medieval monastery on the Mount Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece, researchers are gaining a glimpse of what life was like in the region over six hundred years ago. Records by the Ottoman Empire from that period have sat virtually unknown ins…
Kevin Spacey not guilty in US sexual misconduct trial
A jury sided with Kevin Spacey on Thursday in one of the lawsuits that derailed the film star’s career, finding he did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were in Broadway plays in 1986. The jury of five men and six women deliberated f…
Europe needs to learn from COVID and find a common response to crises, Costa says
Europe needs to find a common response to the multiple crises it faces as it did in the COVID-19 pandemic, Antonio Costa told Euronews. The Portuguese prime minister spoke on the sidelines of a congress of European socialists over the weekend. “When we…
Hungary comparing EU sanctions on Russia to bombs is ‘inappropriate’, says EU Commission
The European Commission denounced Hungary’s poster campaign comparing EU sanctions on Russia to bombs as “inappropriate” on Wednesday. The Hungarian government has been promoting a “national consultation” on the sanctions with a poster campaign featuri…