“The EU is not going anywhere,” said Katarína Mathernová, the EU ambassador to Ukraine. “We are staying in Kyiv.” Mathernová added that “threats against diplomats” were a “sign of desperation” from Russia. A spokesperson for France’s Foreign Ministry similarly told France Info that it would be “out of the question to evacuate” its staff from […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 05/26/2026 – 13:53 GMT+2 The document, dated May 15, was published 145-years after a former Pope Leo wrote his own warning of the Advent of the 19th century industrial revolution. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Pope Leo XIV used his encyclical – a document communicating the position of the Catholic Church to its 1.4 billion followers […]
Continue ReadingIn a letter to the national parliament published on Tuesday, State Secretary for Digital Economy Willemijn Aerdts said the national authority charged with screening investments had advised the government to block the acquisition. The purchase was seen as posing “a possible risk to the public interest.” The government on Monday decided to adopt the advice […]
Continue ReadingThe European Commission will adopt a decision this week that would privilege European satellite operators in a move designed to curb the European expansion of Starlink, the flagship service of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Starlink currently dominates the global satellite internet market with over 10,000 low-orbit satellites. Its closest competitor is Amazon’s Project Kuiper, […]
Continue ReadingCigarettes are hardly common in Sweden anymore.Image: keystone Sweden is the first country in the world to reduce the proportion of the population who regularly consume cigarettes to less than 5 percent. The country is thus achieving a long-standing goal. However, nicotine replacement products are widespread among Scandinavians. May 26, 2026, 04:41May 26, 2026, 04:42 […]
Continue ReadingAccording to Lebanese sources, twelve people were killed in Israeli air strikes in Lebanon. The state news agency NNA reported that more people were injured in the attacks on a town in the Bekaa Valley in the southeast of the country late on Monday eveningwithout giving an exact number. There were at least eight attacks […]
Continue ReadingA paraglider narrowly escaped death after an aircraft tore through her chute while she was in the air in the Salzburg region of Austria. Footage posted by Instagram user @sab_thi on Sunday (24 May) shows a light aircraft colliding with the chute, sending her spinning through the air. She activated a second chute after the […]
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Continue ReadingMay 26, 2026, 09:06May 26, 2026, 09:06 According to the South Korean military leadership, North Korea fired several short-range missiles and other flying objects. The missiles were launched around the North Korean city of Chongju near the country’s west coast and had a flight range of 80 kilometers, South Korea’s general staff said. Due to […]
Continue ReadingMay 26, 2026, 08:50May 26, 2026, 08:50 In their fight against the Ebola outbreak, aid workers in Central Africa also have to deal with superstition and ignorance. In the province of Ituri in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where most of the more than 900 suspected cases are located, around one in […]
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