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School pupils and students were tasked with tracking down relatives of 10 Greek prisoners of the Nazis and returning the personal belongings taken from them. Their efforts helped tell the stories of those who were 'turned into numbers' by World War II.

Ten years after a flash flood caused devastation near Skopje, BIRN found many of the conditions that turned an extreme weather event into a disaster remain in place.

Passenger rail service between Kemi, Tornio and Haparanda was discontinued in 1988, leaving the border region without a direct rail link for decades.

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Research reveals the best destinations in Europe where you can slow down among nature, as well as the science behind why forests, birdsong and scenic hikes can help travellers unwind.

2Russian troops attacked Sumy with five aerial bombs, injuring five people and damaging residential buildings and infrastructure.

According to a statement by the Nihon Hidankyo organization of atomic bomb survivors, Japan is seeking to change the country’s non-nuclear principles and constitution without sufficient debate

More Europeans can afford a week-long holiday, but the trend is not universal. Five countries have seen the share unable to afford a holiday increase, including Germany and three Nordic countries.

The shock and grief have completely overwhelmed the municipality of San Juan del Río Coco, located in the department of Madriz, after learning of the tragic death of Amner José Acuña Toruño. The Nicaraguan, 44 years old, lost his life last Wednesday, August 5, in a heartbreaking work accident that occurred in the town of Elgóibar, located in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, in northern Spain. According to preliminary information provided by his relatives on social media and confirmed by local media, the incident occurred while Acuña Toruño was performing his usual duties of maintaining green areas and pruning trees at considerable height. For reasons currently under formal investigation by the labor authorities and relevant inspections in Spain, a safety harness or rope he depended on for protection suddenly detached. The unexpected failure of the equipment caused a spectacular fall into the void. The force of the impact against the ground caused multiple fractures and severe contusions that were instantly fatal. Despite the prompt arrival of emergency services and intervention at the scene, he could not be revived. The news of Amner José's death has caused deep sorrow in the sports community of San Juan del Río Coco and throughout the dep…

Rodion Miroshnik noted that Nord Stream was a major, long-term and mutually beneficial project, with Russia earning revenue from gas supplies and Europe receiving a steady supply of relatively cheap energy that supported economic growth

The prolonged conditions of heat and drought have led to the spread and intensification of extreme fires.

Remittance flows to the Dominican Republic totaled USD 7,316.4 million between January and July 2026, according to data from the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD). This figure represents a 6.4% year-on-year increase, equivalent to USD 442 million more than in the same period of the previous year. In July, the amount received from remittances reached USD 1,097.1 million, which implies a growth of 4.7% compared to July 2025. This result occurred in an international context characterized by conflicts in the Middle East and an increase in oil prices, factors that have generated greater inflationary pressures and reduced disposable income in households globally. The BCRD attributes the observed behavior mainly to transfers made by Dominicans residing in the United States. During July, this country was the origin of 81.4% of the formal resources, with a value of USD 814.7 million. The institution links this data to the evolution of the U.S. economy, where the ISM non-manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) stood at 54.1 in July, indicating expansion in the service sector. In the same month, the unemployment rate in the United States was 4.1%, one-tenth lower than in June, despite the loss of 23,000 jobs. Remittance distribution and main sending countries Additionally, Spain established itself as the second source of rem…

Average sea surface temperature outside polar regions was highest on record for July, beating previous high in 2023 The world’s seas were hotter last month than in any July on record, scientists have said, as devastating heat struck western Europe. Sea surface temperatures hit record highs for July on the Atlantic coast and western Mediterranean, the EU’s Copernicus climate change service found, with severe marine heatwaves roiling Europe’s seas. Globally, the average sea surface temperature outside the cold polar regions was the highest on record for the month, beating the previous July record set in 2023. Continue reading...

Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik opined that Germany should assess the massive losses and seek compensation from Ukraine under international law

A cluster of measures signed and drafted since late July has shifted the center of gravity in US supply-chain policy away from finished electronics and toward the raw materials that feed them.

Russian Permanent Representative to the international organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov asserted that French officials do not respect their own population

Power companies have already restored power to 90,000 customers in Odesa and the Odesa region who were left without electricity due to the Russian attack on August 9.

The Russian Army launched a massive attack on the energy system of the Ukrainian region of Odessa this Sunday, leaving up to now 14 injured and almost total power outage, which has been gradually resolved over the hours. In a statement, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed "a combined air strike against the Odessa thermal power plant and seven electrical substations," which it detailed as Usatove, Tsentropolit, Artsikh, Novoodesskaya, Mayaki, Belgorod-Dnistrovskyi, and Karolino-Bugaz. For his part, Odessa governor Oleh Kiper specified that 11 of the 14 injured were hospitalized, one of them in serious condition. Previously, the regional administration had indicated that most of the injured had shrapnel wounds. According to Kyiv Independent, local authorities also announced that in two districts of the capital of the region, several residential buildings were damaged or partially destroyed, and the cars of their residents were affected by the fire. Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, confirmed that energy infrastructure was attacked, causing power outages in the city and interrupting water supply. DTEK expects water to be restored throughout the morning and is working on repairing the electrical network. "The damages are serious and repairs will take time. The…

Mexican actress Cynthia Klitbo said during the reality show La casa de los famosos that if she had the opportunity, she would like to move to Petén, in Guatemala, a department that occupies about a third of the country's territory and which she described as a place of deep nature, turquoise lakes, and communities with which she believes she would feel very comfortable. The actress's interest was focused on a region of 35,824 km² that represents 33% of the Guatemalan territory and has the highest density of ancient Mayan cities in the world, as well as the largest wetlands complex in Mesoamerica. The area, located in the northernmost part of Guatemala, has an estimated population of around 670,000 inhabitants. During a conversation with Karina Torres and Arantza Ruiz, Klitbo said she would not choose a beach "like Cancun," but a more isolated environment. "I would go live in the jungle," she said, before specifying that she would move "to Tikal or Petén." The actress explained that she visited the place during a trip with her friend Vicky Flores. "It's a huge turquoise-colored lake in Guatemala," she recounted about the landscape that impressed her, and added that the hotel where she stayed had cabins built over the water. Petén concentrates jungle, lakes, and some of Guatemala's main Mayan sites. Petén is the largest subnational entity in Central America, and its departmental capital is composed of Flores Island and Santa Elena de la Cruz, c…

A photojournalist with The New York Times details the displacement and danger, in words and images, that have come to define his home.

A total of 213 combat engagements between Ukrainian forces and Russian invaders were recorded along the front line on August 9, with the enemy most actively attempting to attack on the Lyman and Kostiantynivka axes.

A two-time Olympic medalist, Maranhão native Rayssa Leal put on a show at the crowded Maracanãzinho Gymnasium in Rio de Janeiro, which for the first time in history hosted a stage of the Street League Skateboarding (SLS), the International League of the sport. Even with pain after falling the day before the event, Rayssa scored a total of 20.9, just 0.02 ahead of Japanese Momiji Nishiya - Olympic gold medalist in Tokyo 2020 - who finished second with a total of 20.7. Spanish Daniela Terol (17.7) completed the podium in third place. São Paulo's Gabriela Mazetto (14.8) finished in fourth place. With her second trophy of the season - the first was in February at the opening stage in Sydney (Australia) - Rayssa emerges as a strong candidate to compete for the SLS Super Crown 2026, the last of the seven league stages, with the skaters with the highest scores throughout the year. The Maranhão native from Imperatriz is a four-time consecutive Super Crown champion (2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025). Related news: Amid crisis, FIFA warns of attempts to undermine Gianni Infantino. Lorrane Oliveira and Caio Souza win gold at the Gymnastics Brazilian Championship. Tennis player Bia Haddad announces a career break in the second half of this year. See this photo on Instagram A post shared by Street League Skateboarding (@sls) "Yesterday I wasn't skating very well. Today I skated like this, everything I could skate. I was very happy. I dedicate this title to my family..."

Energy workers have partially restored power to critical infrastructure and electricity supplies to 128,400 households in Odesa and the Odesa region that were left without power following a Russian attack.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged strikes overnight that killed civilians and injured many others on both sides, local authorities reported. Large-scale Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities have become almost routine in recent weeks, with Moscow exploiting Ukraine’s critical shortage of interceptors for the US-made Patriot systems – the sole air defence weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down ballistic missiles. In the latest attacks, Ukrainian drones killed five people and injured two dozen...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced new contacts with mediators this week aimed at securing air defense packages for Ukraine.

Three days before the start of the control exam at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), applicants selected in the failed undergraduate admission test called for another mobilization tomorrow to demand that their results be respected and to reject the in-person evaluation. The dissatisfied, who organized themselves through social media and WhatsApp, agreed to meet tomorrow at noon in the Central Library parking lot and then stand in front of the Rectorate Tower to demand that their place be respected. "Tomorrow we are not just going to march. We will continue fighting for our Selected Applicant, for our effort, and for everything we did to get here. Many of us dedicated months of preparation, time, money, and effort to secure a spot, and it is worth doing everything in our power to defend it," reads the call. Read also INE rules out non-compliance in the Territorium Life service; contract is not for conducting admission exams, it states. "Tomorrow we have the opportunity to show that we are not alone, that there are many of us, and that we are willing to defend our place. Let’s not let all the effort we have made go to waste," it indicates. However, the protests so far called have been a failure. Just last Thursday, the Rectorate Tower appeared empty despite a scheduled gathering of…

The number of people injured in Russian attacks on the Odesa region has risen to 13, with one person in serious condition.

Pope Leo XIV asked Sudanese authorities this Sunday to "guarantee humanitarian corridors for the civilian population" and called on the international community to support efforts to achieve "an immediate ceasefire" in Sudan, in a plea made after the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square, Vatican. The pontiff also extended his appeal to end attacks against civilians in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Leo XIV expressed his "spiritual closeness to the Sudanese people" and asked that "the Lord support those who suffer, transform the hearts of those who sow violence, and grant the long-awaited peace." The pope specifically cited the situation of a city in central Sudan that in recent weeks became the epicenter of the worst escalation of the conflict in over three years of civil war. That city, the capital of North Kordofan state, is home to about 500,000 people, including more than 100,000 displaced by previous fighting. It has been surrounded for months by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group fighting the Sudanese Army since April 2023, which intensified drone attacks against power plants and water distribution points. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that the city risks experiencing a repeat of what happened last year in El Fasher, in Darfur, where the advance…

From 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Moscow time, Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 285 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, the Russian defense ministry said

The 270-kilometer-long Ibar River flows via Serbia and Montenegro and feeds Gazivode Lake of Kosovo’s largest hydropower plant of the same name

Poland's economy is gaining in importance in Europe. In 2025 the country ranked sixth in the EU by nominal GDP, accounting for almost 5% of the bloc's total output.

The latest attempts by Western countries to extend the OHR’s presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina through behind-the-scenes maneuvers bypassing the UN Security Council are untenable, Yury Pilipson, director of the ministry’s second European department, told

Around 10,000 people gathered in Cologne on Sunday for a demonstration in support of the queer community following the Islamist attack at Berlin Pride. The organisers of Cologne’s own Pride celebrations called for the rally two weeks after the shocking attack in the German capital. Participants gathered in the Deutz district on the eastern side of the Rhine River and marched across to the city centre, with turnout significantly higher than the 2,000 registered with police in advance. A dpa...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, condemned the attack on a warehouse intended for health aid in Ukraine. In this regard, he emphasized that one of the rules in wars is that health must be protected. The health authority openly criticized the assault on a humanitarian resource storage located in Dnipro, which was "hit and destroyed" on August 7. "This warehouse held humanitarian medical supplies, intended for frontline health centers, mainly WHO emergency health resources," he explained on his X account. He detailed that members of his organization had been at the site earlier, supporting the evacuation of resources. They managed to remove 130 of 300 pallets and left the area before the attack. No victims were reported at the scene. "I cannot say it strongly enough: attacks on healthcare must stop. Otherwise, people are deprived of life-saving medical care. Even wars have rules. One of those is that health must be protected!" the WHO director-general reproached. Last Friday, the @WHO humanitarian warehouse in Dnipro, #Ukraine, was struck and destroyed. At this time, no casualties have been reported. A WHO staff member and drivers had been on site earlier in the day supporting the evacuation of supplies. The team had succeeded in…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that as many as 50,000 North Korean soldiers could be deployed to Russia, reflecting growing military cooperation between the two countries. He did not elaborate on his sources for this information, but warned that Pyongyang could gain valuable battlefield experience and military technology through its support for Russia.

Congress could incorporate the Peace Act into the annual National Defense Authorization Act.

Russian forces destroyed a World Health Organization (WHO) warehouse in Dnipro that was storing medical supplies for emergency situations.

An outraged shadow justice secretary said the artist should foot the bill, while others say his murals make art accessible Three Banksy artworks have cost taxpayers almost £150,000 in cleaning, security and other costs, with the bill expected to rise. The largest bill relates to a mural painted on the Royal Courts of Justice in London in September 2025, where efforts to remove it and provide security have so far cost more than £85,000, according to the BBC. Continue reading...

The new head coach of the French national football team embodies a counter-narrative to the dominant French story, serving as an antidote to far-right ideas, and also challenges some of the assumptions held by parts of the left, writes former ambassador Karim Amellal.

Rescuers came under a repeated Russian attack in the Zaporizhzhia region, leaving one firefighter dead and two others injured.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged another round of overnight strikes, killing civilians and injuring many others on both sides. In Russia’s border region of Belgorod, Ukrainian drone attacks killed five people and wounded around two dozen others. Meanwhile, Russian missiles struck a high-rise apartment building in Kharkiv, killing two people, and injured several more in the Black Sea port of Odesa.

In an exclusive interview with the Associated Press, he highlights the progress of Cyprus's ongoing energy projects, which will also benefit EU citizens.

A World Health Organization (WHO) warehouse storing emergency health supplies in Ukraine has been destroyed, as Kyiv and Moscow exchanged fresh missile strikes overnight, causing several deaths and leaving tens of people injured. Russia launched a “massive” strike on Odesa overnight, according to Ukrainian emergency services, with at least eight people injured. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an X post on Sunday that the “brutal strike” on the city targeted energy infrastructure as well as residential buildings and the port. A separate Russian strike on the Saltivka district of Kharkiv killed two people and injured at least 21 more, according to the head of the region’s state administration. Ukraine’s emergency services said firefighters rescued seven people from the upper floors of a high-rise building. Another overnight strike on the Zhytomyr region injured three people, Ukrainian emergency services said. Meanwhile, five people died in a Ukrainian overnight drone attack on the Russian city of Belgorod, the regional crisis centre said on Sunday. Acting governor Alexander Shuvayev said earlier on Sunday that three people were killed and 25 others injured in the “massive terrorist drone attack” by Kyiv. The death toll later rose to five. Zelenskyy condemned what he described as “ballistic terror” attacks on Odesa, Kharkiv, Pavlohrad, and other regions. “Every such attack on human life serves as a constant reminder – we need more pressure, more sanctions against Russia, and more air defense for Ukraine,” he said. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said on Sunday that a WHO warehouse in Dnipro in Ukraine was destroyed by a strike on Friday. The warehouse held humanitarian supplies for frontline health facilities. No casualties were reported, as a WHO staff member and drivers managed to evacuate 130 of approximately 300 pallets and left the area before the attack. “I cannot say loudly enough: attacks on health care MUST STOP. Otherwise, people are deprived of lifesaving healthcare,” Tedros said.

In 2025, a Canadian firm found a major oil and gas field off Poland’s Baltic coast, the biggest since WWII, sparking German fears for the environment and tourism.

In the Odesa district, Russians attacked a residential area during the day, damaging a private house.

Overnight drone and missile attacks killed several and injured dozens more in both Ukraine and Russia. As Kyiv seeks to defend itself it has now reportedly finalized a deal to buy US missile systems from Turkey.

In Kharkiv, another person has died as a result of the strike on a high-rise building, and the number of wounded has increased to 37.

Over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces repelled five Russian attacks in the Sumy region. This year, the enemy has slightly increased its troop presence near the border, as the number of enemy vehicles destroyed has increased significantly.

The two North African nations become the first teams from the continent to qualify for next year's World Cup in Brazil.

Over the past few weeks, Russian troops in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector have established several small areas of control near the Ukrainian border.

Units of the Unmanned Systems Forces use precision-guided UAVs capable of destroying any target throughout Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said

Ukraine says it did not target Bulgaria after a drone crashed near a gas pipeline in the country on Saturday. Bulgarian authorities said the drone appeared to be a type used by Ukraine’s military. It came down in a field near the Romanian border, not far from the Black Sea, where Russian and Ukrainian forces have been engaged in an intensifying drone war. Nicholas Rushworth has more.

A triumphant night for north Africa ended on Saturday with hosts Morocco and Algeria reaching the Women's Africa of Nations (WAFCON) semi-finals and the 2027 World Cup in Brazil.

On the night of August 9, the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck three anti-aircraft missile systems, two radar stations on Russian territory, and three more vessels of the Russian shadow fleet in the Black Sea.

Just outside the Nigerian capital Abuja, where Green Agriculture West Africa Limited (Gawal) is based, locals do not refer to the company by name, instead as the place where the Chinese supply “magic” rice seeds. Ahmed Yusuf, 42, credits the seeds with turning around his rice business for good. Before Gawal, Yusuf’s yields averaged just 2 tonnes per hectare, putting him on the verge of forsaking farming after more than a decade of toiling. “Each year I was making losses, and I couldn’t meet the...

In Kharkiv, the injury toll has increased to 21 following the Russian strike.

Glowing spheres and mysterious lights are generating a wave of reports in Germany. As Pentagon files reignite debate, CENAP in Lützelbach has long sought to explain the sightings.

In Kharkiv, the injury toll has increased to thirteen following the Russian strike.

Germany is moving to counter the threats posed by drones after a number of security incidents. The CEO of arms giant Rheinmetall says he is not "chickening out" despite alleged plots against him. DW has more.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry Second European Department Director Yury Pilipson, "promoting the subject of unification between the two countries in the media is part of a campaign to shape Moldovan public opinion and create the impression of growing mass support for the so-called unirea, as the unification process is called there."

The head of Spain's top football league, often at the forefront of clashes with global football authorities, delivers a damning assessment of the situation at FIFA in an interview with Le Monde.

An unidentified drone of a type used by Kyiv's army exploded near a pipeline bordering Bulgaria and Romania. The drone entered Bulgarian airspace from Romania before exploding 1,000 metres from the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline.

The head of German arms giant Rheinmetall is refusing to be intimidated despite round-the-clock security due to a litany of threats to his safety. On Sunday, Armin Papperger said “chickening out” was not an option in his field. “These jobs must be done and anyone that can’t take the pressure doesn’t belong in this job,” Papperger said. The 63-year-old is under police protection due to alleged Russian murder plots and has bodyguards at his side at all times, even in Rheinmetall’s Dusseldorf...

Russian forces struck Kharkiv's Saltivskyi district this morning, hitting apartment buildings and killing two people and injuring others.

The Russian Foreign Ministry’s Second European Department Director Yury Pilipson noted that the Moldovan port of Giurgiulesti has been turned "into a transit hub for delivering various cargoes to Ukraine"

For Christiane Magnani de Alemán, the first French woman to be crowned Miss Universe in 1953, the impossible does not exist. At 90 years old, the former beauty queen has published a self-titled autobiography in which she travels a life marked by war, fame, cinema, family and Mexican politics. Seguir leyendo

Five people were injured and residential buildings were damaged in a Russian airstrike on the city of Izium in the Kharkiv region.

Acting Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara conducted a working visit to the command posts of the Unmanned Systems Forces, the 3rd and 19th Army Corps, and the Azov Corps.

Andras Baka, a strong advocate for judicial independence, becomes governing party's pick for Hungary's next president.

According to Vladimir Zelensky, even if the license to manufacture Patriots is granted to Ukraine, it will not be able to produce interceptor missiles on its own

In the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region, the occupying administration is closing schools and kindergartens on a massive scale.

The world, which is barely what my eyes see, is slowly cracking around me, like an Antarctic ice block melting. Aging is not just adding years and discovering gray hairs and wrinkles. Aging is becoming clumsy and slow, distrustful and grumpy. Aging is shrinking, becoming irrelevant, almost invisible. In my mother's family, there are elderly people who fall just because they are old, who wear diapers, who walk with a walker or cane, who depend on a nurse to bathe. I don't want to fall old, wear diapers, and shower with a nurse. I prefer to leave earlier. I admire lucid suicides. Not all suicides are lucid. I knew one, a man of powerful intelligence and vanity, who preferred to take his own life before turning seventy to avoid the indignities of prison, humiliations his father had suffered when he was a child. I knew another, a wise writer, who chose a serene, painless, assisted death at eighty, to avoid suffering the disastrous consequences of a terminal illness that would have reduced him to a mere remnant. I also knew a talented actor who jumped from the balcony into the darkness of death when he still had many roles to play. I would like to leave when I am a perfect useless, a burden to my family. I wonder if I am not already. What saves me from being a perfect useless is not talking. I speak certain nights on a TV program…

A Russian military intelligence agent who coordinated missile strikes on Kharkiv in the summer of 2023 was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.

Columnist Marc Champion pointed out that Ukraine was facing shortages of US-made Patriot missiles due to the conflict between Washington and Tehran

The Tisza party and Prime Minister Peter Magyar pressured President Tamas Sulyok, who was appointed under former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, to step down

A man was killed and another person was injured in Russian FPV drone attacks in the Kharkiv region on Saturday.

More than 250 passengers were evacuated from a train in the Sumy region after a Russian drone struck its locomotive. All passengers were transported to a location from which they were able to continue their journey.

Ukraine on Saturday denied targeting Bulgaria after a drone exploded close to the strategic Trans-Balkan gas pipeline linking Turkey to Ukraine near the Romanian border. Bulgaria’s defence ministry said the drone was of a type “widely used by the Ukrainian military”, and the foreign minister summoned the Ukrainian ambassador for a meeting on Monday in response, her office said. Kyiv said it was “in close contact with the Bulgarian side to clarify the circumstances” of the incident, the latest...

Tisza, the ruling party of Hungary, has chosen former Supreme Court President András Baka as the new president of the country in one of the last steps to dismantle the power structures that, according to Prime Minister Peter Magyar, were built by his predecessor Viktor Orbán, including the now former president Tamas Sulyok. Magyar's party controls 141 of the 199 seats in Parliament, so Baka's ratification next Tuesday in the chamber will be purely ceremonial. Sulyok signed last month the constitutional amendment approved by Magyar's party that ended his presidency. Baka served as Supreme Court president from 2009 to 2011, when, according to the European Court of Human Rights three years later, he was dismissed for criticizing Orbán's government. The jurist served as a judge on the European court from 1991 to 2008. "Throughout his entire career, András Baka has considered the principle of separation of powers to be of utmost importance, always consistently defending the rule of law and judicial independence," Magyar stated in his announcement, published on social media. "We need a President of the Republic whose professional authority, independence, and experience in public and constitutional law provide a solid foundation to successfully return our country to the path of the rule of law and constitutional order," he added.

The power plant continues to receive electricity through the Ferrosplavnaya-1 power line only, the press service added

The parliamentary group of Tisza, led by new Prime Minister Peter Magyar, nominated Andras Baka as its choice for the largely ceremonial role.

A juvenile coyote was rescued from a private residence in the municipality of Tlalmanalco, State of Mexico, after being found chained in a house that lacked the necessary conditions to treat it with dignity and respect. The seizure was carried out after the alleged owner of the specimen did not present documentation to verify its legal origin, according to information shared by the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa). According to the environmental authority, led by Mariana Boy Tamborrell, the coyote was placed in the custody of Profepa until its physical and health condition could be assessed, as well as its subsequent fate. Read also: A golden eagle is released in Chihuahua; a satellite transmitter is placed on it to monitor its adaptation Although it did not specify where the animal would be sent, once the specimens are received, the authority evaluates the specific conditions for their release into their natural habitat, or if they present inadequate health conditions, they are referred to Wildlife Management Units for Conservation (UMA), or to zoos for their management and care. Are coyotes endangered? According to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), a conservation and animal welfare charity, coyotes are not an endangered species, although according to the IUCN Red List of...

The 4 x 1.5 km relay behind Germany, bronze for Hungary

The Russian Armed Forces continue to carry out strikes on Ukrainian port infrastructure and seagoing vessels used by the Ukrainian army

Some Western media outlets reported in late July that Witkoff and Kushner might travel to Kiev in the near future

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this Saturday the activation of an emergency consular assistance response following, according to the Farnesina statement, "the retaliatory measure by the Sánchez government to restore controls at internal borders for travelers coming from Italy." In a message posted on social media, they announced the activation of a WhatsApp channel called "Crisis Unit - Spain" dedicated entirely to managing procedures. Furthermore, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that the operational room of the aforementioned Reinforced Crisis Unit has been active 24 hours a day from now on, and also reminded of the phone numbers of its consulates in Madrid and Barcelona, as well as its vice-consulate in Tenerife. The Spanish government, it is worth remembering, agreed to temporarily restore controls at internal borders of ports and airports for travelers coming from Italy after Giorgia Meloni's government refused to lift Spain's suspension of the Schengen agreement. According to government sources, this measure has been adopted due to "the persistent irregular migratory pressure faced by the Italian country." Border controls will be operational from 00:00 hours on Saturday, August 8, and will consist of identity and nationality checks of travelers via passport. In e…

An air raid warning is currently in effect in the Kharkov Region

Almost four months after Saratscheff's appointment as national director of SBAP, and following the institution's operational start in February of this year, the organization held its first Participatory Public Account. During the event, it presented the main advances in the implementation of the new system and the challenges anticipated for the coming years. The next day, on the occasion of International Ranger Day, SBAP presented the Change Management Plan 2026-2027 at the Environmental Information Center of Río Clarillo National Park. The initiative establishes the roadmap for the final transfer of protected wild areas from the National Forest Corporation (Conaf) to the new service, a process whose date was postponed from August 1, 2026, to March 2027. In an interview with Hub Sustainability, Saratscheff discussed the main challenges of the new institutional framework, the most urgent threats to ecosystems, and the role that the private sector and the State will need to play to strengthen biodiversity conservation in the country. What is your assessment of these first months of implementation, and what are the challenges and priorities for your management? - The assessment is undoubtedly positive. Chile manages to install the last piece of a new environmental institutional framework that has been developing since 2010, following observations from the OECD. To date, progress has been made on a roadmap to implement…

Keep our news free from ads and paywalls by making a donation to support our work! Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team and is published by an independent, non-profit foundation that is funded through donations from our readers. We cannot do what we do without your support. Poland has announced the exhumation of a further 55 victims of massacres by Ukrainian nationalists during World War Two. Around half of the remains belonged to children, and most show signs of brutal deaths, including skulls pierced with farming tools (as pictured above). The announcement comes amid ongoing tensions between Poland and Ukraine over the so-called Volhynia massacres, sparked by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent decision to name a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which was responsible for leading the killings of around 100,000 Poles. However, both sides have expressed hope that continued exhumations of victims – most of which are believed to still remain buried in unmarked mass graves in Ukraine – can ease that path towards reconciliation. 📣 Zakończenie tegorocznych prac ekshumacyjnych ofiar Zbrodni Wołyńskiej w Ostrówkach i Woli Ostrowieckiej ❗ Od 13 lipca do 7 sierpnia br. pracownicy Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, przedsiębiorstwa „Wołyńskie Starożytności” oraz specjalista z zakresu medycyny sądowej z… pic.twitter.com/iDJR5NmdEn — Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (@ipngovpl) August 7, 2026 The new findings were made in Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka, two neighbouring former villages, now depopulated, that were previously part of Poland but, after postwar border changes, are now located in western Ukraine. There, on 30 August 1943, the UPA massacred over 1,000 Poles and razed the villages to the ground. Similar massacres took place in many other villages, as part of an ethnic cleaning operation by the UPA to remove Poles and other minorities from what they saw as Ukrainian territory. Exhumations previously took place in Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka and in the 1990s, and again in 2011 and 2015, uncovering the remains of hundreds of victims. However, hundreds more are believed to remain buried. In 2017, Ukraine imposed a ban on searches for victims on its territory in response to the dismantlement of a monument to the UPA in Poland. However, in a diplomatic breakthrough last year, it allowed them to resume, including granting permission in December for work in Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka. Click here to help us continue providing news free from paywalls and ads In April this year, mass graves were discovered there, with exhumations then beginning in July. Poland’s state Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) has now announced the result of that work. They have uncovered the remains of 55 victims, 26 of them children (mostly under 12 years of age, with the youngest a few months old) and 20 women. In the Volhynia massacres as a whole, the majority of victims were women and children. The locations and conditions of the remains reveal much about the manner of their death. Most were buried “at random” without coffins, which is consistent with contemporary accounts that they were killed in a barn and then thrown into a mass burial pit, notes the IPN Most of the remains, in particular skulls, show signs of injuries that are also consistent with contemporary accounts, which said that victims were ordered to lie on the ground before being killed with farm tools, including hammers for slaughtering cattle. Material from the bones has been secured for genetic testing, which was recently used for the first time to identify massacre victims exhumed at another location in Ukraine last year. Around 300 personal items, including rosaries, crosses and clothing, were also found during the recent excavations in Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka. On 30 August, the 83rd anniversary of the massacre, the newly found remains will be buried in a funeral ceremony at the cemetery in Ostrówki. The IPN believes that over 300 further victims still remain buried at unknown locations in the two former villages. Poland has for the first time used DNA testing to identify the remains of Poles massacred by Ukrainian nationalists in WWII. “After more than 80 years, families are receiving the answer they have awaited for generations,” says the culture minister https://t.co/c1gM3kQ83s — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) July 14, 2026 The Volhynia massacres have long been a point of tension between Poland, which recognises them as a genocide, and Ukraine, which rejects that label. The decision by Kyiv to allow exhumations to resume last year was regarded as a major step towards reconciliation. However, that process was undermined in May this year, when Zelensky decided to name a military unit after the “heroes of the UPA”. That prompted an angry response from Warsaw, where President Karol Nawrocki stripped Zelensky of Poland’s highest honour. There have since been efforts to reach a diplomatic solution. Last month, Zelensky pointed specifically to the exhumation work in Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka as evidence that “Ukraine is doing its part to fairly establish the facts about those who were killed in those years”. Subsequently, he announced a five-point plan to alleviate the crisis, including allowing more exhumations and opening up historical archives. Poland welcomed the move but said that it would wait to see how it was implemented in practice. Poland has cautiously welcomed President @ZelenskyyUa's announcement of a five-point plan to alleviate the diplomatic crisis triggered by his earlier decision to name a military unit after a group that led massacres of Poles during WWII https://t.co/M3GXD9vtAr — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) July 18, 2026 Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team and published by an independent, non-profit foundation that is funded through donations from our readers. We cannot do what we do without your support.  Image credits: Tomasz Trzaska/IPN (under CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s ruling Tisza party said on Saturday that it had nominated former Supreme Court President András Baka to become the country’s next president. Baka, who worked as a judge on the European Court of Human Rights before being elected to head the Supreme Court, was removed from his post by the Fidesz government in 2011 — a move the ECHR ruled was unlawful. “Throughout his career, Dr. András Baka has considered the principle of the separation of powers to be of paramount importance and has consistently stood up for the rule of law and judicial independence,” Tisza said in a Facebook post. He is “the strongest guarantee that the office of President of the Republic will regain its true dignity and its ability to unite the nation and serve as a counterbalance to the ruling majority,” it added. Parliament is set to vote on his candidacy next Tuesday. Tisza, which won a general election in the spring, enjoys a two-thirds majority in the chamber, making Baka’s election to the largely representative post a formality. The nomination comes after former President Tamás Sulyok signed a constitutional amendment that removed him from office last month, bowing to months of public pressure from Magyar. The new prime minister had called for Sulyok’s resignation following Tisza’s landslide election victory that ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Magyar’s first choice for president, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, declined the nomination, saying the job would be too stressful.

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A study led by scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (United States) concluded that a protein, mainly known for protecting the ends of chromosomes (telomeres), also helps muscle stem cells preserve their identity and repair damaged tissue. According to the authors, their findings offer new clues for the treatment of muscular dystrophy and provide relevant information to better understand the mechanisms of cancer. The research was published in the journal Science Advances at the end of July and focused on the protein TRF2, which has a protective function for chromosomes. However, according to the work, it also helps maintain the genetic program that allows cells to preserve their identity, enabling muscle regeneration after injury. Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine, Dr. Foteini Mourkioti, stated: “For years, it has been considered that TRF2 is a protein whose main function is to protect the ends of chromosomes from damage or alterations. But beyond simply protecting DNA, it seems to be key for muscle regeneration throughout life.” How muscles preserve their repair cells, according to the study The researcher explained that TRF2 is a protein known for its primary function at the ends of chromosomes, the…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned this Saturday that his country is preparing for a particularly difficult winter due to the destruction of its energy infrastructure. "We are talking about the challenges Ukraine faces this winter, when we are practically left without intact thermal power plants due to Russian attacks, when Russian missiles are precisely seeking to make life unbearable for Ukrainians," he said during a press conference in Belgrade after meeting with his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic. Zelensky's visit to the Serbian capital was his first official trip to the Balkan country and took place in a context marked by the war with Russia and Ukraine's difficulties in securing energy supplies amid the imminent cold. The Ukrainian leader emphasized that Russian attacks have left Ukraine "with practically no intact thermal power plants," worsening the humanitarian situation and complicating electricity supply for the civilian population. President Vucic received Zelensky in an atmosphere of institutional cordiality, though with political nuances. The Serbian head of state declared that Serbia's support for Ukraine's territorial integrity is a "matter of principle," unconditional and "without any buts." "What I find most important is that Serbia, and I as its president have emphasized this, supports the United Nations Charter and the Resolution…

A drone that entered Bulgaria on Saturday exploded near the border with Romania and the Trans-Balkan pipeline, which connects Turkey with Ukraine, announced Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev. Radev did not specify the origin of the drone, which caused no casualties, and stated that authorities still did not know its type. However, he indicated that the amount of explosives it carried was "significant." "The drone exploded near the Kardam border crossing with Romania," close to the Black Sea, in the northeast of the country, "1,000 meters from the compressor station of the Trans-Balkan pipeline," he said in a video released by the government on social media. Subsequently, the drone crashed into a sunflower field, he added. The Romanian border police recorded the sound of the drone, and later a Bulgarian border police patrol spotted "a loud explosion accompanied by black smoke," Radev added after an extraordinary meeting of his cabinet's security council. "One thing is certain: the drone was carrying a significant amount of explosives, as it could be heard from afar and produced dense black smoke," he affirmed. The drone "crashed into a sunflower field, and I hope we will soon find out what type it is," Radev declared, adding that it was not a "recreational drone," but a "larger drone." He pointed out that the drone had not been detected by...

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