The UK recorded a sharp decline in disposable vape use a year after a government ban on single-use vapes, a survey cited by Sky News revealed on Monday. YouGov survey data showed that 13% of 11-17-year-olds who vape mainly use disposable products, down from 42% before the ban was introduced in 2025. The rate is […]
Continue ReadingHungary's government will seek constitutional changes if President Tamas Sulyok refuses to resign, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said Monday. Magyar made the remarks after meeting Sulyok at Budapest's Sandor Palace alongside Justice Minister Marta Gorog, according to the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet. The dispute follows an ultimatum issued by the prime minister, who had called […]
Continue ReadingThose expelled from the EU will be able to gather in camps outside the union – and soon asylum seekers, too. But human rights organizations are critical as migration policy is tightened another notch. Everything is almost ready for the EU's new so-called return regulation. The only thing that remains is to determine the actual […]
Continue ReadingRussian submarines have threatened cabling linked to North Sea energy infrastructure in recent weeks, Scottish Labour MSP Michael Marra warned during a debate in the Scottish Parliament, according to UK Defence Journal on June 1. The warning came during a wider debate on Scotland’s energy policy, held on a Scottish Government motion titled “It’s Scotland’s […]
Continue ReadingDozens of officials will patrol world-famous Shibuya as Japan responds to the impacts of overtourism.
Continue ReadingAnother Antiguan producer, Novella Payne, who cooks up a range of sauces, syrups and jams under her Granma Aki label, agrees. To avoid the high prices of Scotch bonnets, she also uses locally grown Moruga scorpion peppers, which are native to Trinidad. “They give it a nice flavour,” she says.
Continue ReadingUkrainian drones struck targets across several Russian regions overnight from Saturday, including an oil pumping station, a refinery and a fuel depot, Russian and Ukrainian authorities said Sunday. Kyiv however denied Moscow’s claims that a Ukrainian drone struck the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Continue ReadingFarmers report thousands of mice per hectare destroying crops and invading homes.
Continue ReadingNow staying permanently in Lithuania: German Bundeswehr soldiers (May 29, 2024).Image: Photo library Secret services warn that Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin could test Western defense will by 2028. But maybe he will do it much earlier. People in Eastern European countries have already prepared. An overview. May 30, 2026, 8:27 p.mMay 30, 2026, 8:30 p.m […]
Continue ReadingOn The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Deep within a vault, where tangled cobwebs cling to the ceiling and a musky sweetness hangs in the air, a remarkable wine collection once owned by Josef Stalin has […]
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