July 2, 2026, 5:15 p.mJuly 2, 2026, 5:15 p.m 144 incidents involving Russian drones were observed between 2024 and 2026. (symbol image)Image: Keystone Drones over airports, military bases and even nuclear sharing facilities: According to an analysis by a British think tank, Russia carried out a drone campaign over a dozen NATO states over a […]
Continue ReadingA man has been rescued alive after being trapped for eight days in the rubble of a building that collapsed after twin earthquakes in Venezuela. Emergency workers managed to free Hernán Gil more than 100 hours after they had first located him under 140 tonnes of rubble. Almost 2,300 people are confirmed to have died […]
Continue ReadingResidents of an Ethiopian town have been forced to kill hundreds of their own dogs after three children died from rabies. Powerful community groups in the central town of Hossana told residents they would be fined and arrested if they did not kill their dogs, even if the animals had been vaccinated for rabies, residents […]
Continue ReadingNine Buddhist monks were killed and several others in their procession injured when they were hit by an 11-year-old boy driving his parents’ pickup truck in north-east Thailand, police said. The group of 35 monks and five lay followers were walking along a road in Mukdahan province during a pilgrimage when the incident occurred. Footage […]
Continue ReadingNASA may want to send a rover originally developed for Mars exploration to the moon (archive image).Image: keystone Jul 1, 2026, 4:09 amJul 1, 2026, 4:09 am After the successful “Artemis 2” mission, the US space agency NASA is continuing to work on new lunar plans. It may want to send a rover originally developed […]
Continue ReadingUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cut short his visit to Dublin on Wednesday, warning that the Kremlin would soon launch a new large-scale attack on Ukraine. Zelenskyy was attending the first day of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and, during a press conference with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, told reporters he would […]
Continue ReadingImage: keystone July 1, 2026, 7:32 p.mJuly 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m The tech giant Google is to pay the Klarna subsidiary Pricerunner the equivalent of almost 1.3 billion euros in damages. The Swedish competition court ordered the US company to do this. The reason: Google has improperly favored its own price comparison site for many […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 01/07/2026 – 18:13 GMT+2 The European Parliament is set to trigger a procedure against the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) party, home of Alternative for Germany (AfD) and other far-right political forces across Europe. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING If ESN is found to have failed to uphold the core values of the European Union, it […]
Continue ReadingThe split is not just about SSPX’s desire to conduct Mass only in Latin. The Society, founded by controversial French archbishop Marcel Lefebre in 1970, has always wanted to preserve a kind of medieval mystique in which priests, bishops, cardinals, and the Mass itself are seen as somehow closer to God, and therefore separate from […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 01/07/2026 – 16:17 GMT+2 A Finnish court found an entrepreneur guilty of exporting trucks and trailers to neighboring Russia in violation of European sanctions on Wednesday, sentencing him to three years and eight months in prison. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Risto Riihimaki’s company, registered in the town of Lappeenranta near Finland’s border with Russia, exported […]
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