Month: July 2022

Dozens of protestors booed Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán on Thursday in Vienna for his racist speech over the weekend, which saw a strong rebuke from Washington. Orbán, meeting with Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer during a one-day visit, defended his comments against creating “peoples of mixed-race”, saying they represented a “cultural, civilisational standpoint”. “It happens […]

Former Russian TV presenter Marina Ovsyannikova was fined 50,000 roubles (€803) on Thursday after being found guilty of discrediting the country’s armed forces in social media posts condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine, Reuters reports. Ovsyannikova, who came to worldwide prominence in March for holding an anti-war placard live on air on Russian state TV, rejected […]

German inflation increased in July driven by higher energy prices as Russia further reduced gas flows, Reuters reported. Consumer prices increased by 8.5 percent on the year, the federal statistics office said on Thursday. Energy prices were 35.7 percent higher in July against the same month last year, and food prices went up 14.8 percent […]

The Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is expected to reopen to worshippers and the public in 2024, culture minister Rima Abdul Malak said on Thursday, more than three years after its roof was destroyed in a massive blaze in 2019, AFP reports. The ministers said the clean-up phase of the restoration project had ended, allowing […]

Western sanctions are driving Russia toward “economic oblivion” despite reports to the contrary, a leading US university has said.