The Ukrainian army is still fighting in Bachmut, the eastern Ukrainian city that the Russians say they have ultimately captured. Kyiv’s deputy defence minister Hanna Maljar says Ukrainians still control a portion of the city’s southwestern edge. The Russians reported on Saturday that they had complete control of Bachmoet after […]
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Hundreds are still missing in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after heavy rainfall, landslides and flooding. A government spokesman estimated on Tuesday that 401 people had already died, and at least 267 people were still missing following last week’s landslides in the Kalehe region of South Kivu province. On […]
The extent to which Europe can import enough gas next winter largely depends on developments in China. CEO said this in an explanation of the quarterly figures. But, at the same time, he warned that it is still totally unpredictable how secure the energy supply to European countries will be. […]
Joe Biden has officially announced that he is running for a second term as president of the United States, four years after announcing his candidacy in 2019. “Let us finish the job,” says a campaign video in which he refers to the threat of anti-democratic forces in his country. “Every […]
In the future, consumers should be more reassured that no forests have been lost anywhere in the world for the products they buy. That is the aim of a law against deforestation that the European Parliament approved in Strasbourg on Wednesday. 420 million hectares, an area larger than the European […]
The tech giant would like to accelerate adding artificial intelligence to stay ahead of the competition. But, for example, Google would fear losing lucrative deals with Samsung to Bing. The introduction of generative AI seems to be shaking the cards in the lucrative search bot market for the first time […]
SpaceX, the American space company of Elon Musk, will launch the first test flight of the mega-rocket Starship this afternoon. With a size of 120 meters, the Starship is the giant rocket ever. She intends to serve in space missions to the moon and Mars. The 2.5-hour launch window opened […]
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been released from intensive care after 12 days, but he must remain in the hospital for now, Ansa news agency reported on Sunday. The 86-year-old Italian was hospitalized earlier this month for a lung infection caused by chronic leukaemia, a condition that had […]
The four unions at the French railway company SNCF have called for “a day of anger” next Thursday. They announced this on Saturday in response to the official announcement of the controversial pension reform. “The nightly promulgation of the law does not change our fight. We will not proceed until […]
Twitter users with a Twitter Blue subscription, which offers additional features, can now compose tweets of up to 10,000 characters. Previously, the limit of paid accounts was 4,000 characters. In addition, regular users have 280 punctuation marks at their disposal. Paying users now also have the option to put text […]