Cuba's healthcare system, once considered one of the best in Latin America, is now facing its most severe crisis yet — one that has sharply worsened this year due to the US oil embargo. According to the Cuban news portal CiberCuba, daily po
Two firefighting helicopters that had taken off from the Elefsina air base collided while battling wildfires near Psatha, Greece. According to the Greek news portal e-Kathimerini, one helicopter struck the other from above, sending it crash
The Italian navy carried out an operation on Sunday morning to intercept the tanker Toa Payoh near the island of Pantelleria, the Italian Ministry of Defence has reported. The vessel, which is on the European Union's sanctions list, was sai
In eastern France, a 500-square-metre warehouse caught fire in the industrial zone of the town of Hagondange, on the site of Safe (SUEZ Alternative Fuels & Energies), a company specialising in waste processing, biogas production and industr
A migration crisis erupted in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the border with Morocco, when as many as 50,000 people attempted to storm the border at once. The author of this commentary points out that such an event could not have happened
US President Donald Trump has announced that Washington and Israel have postponed planned "harsh strikes" on Iran, saying the request came from Tehran itself and other Middle Eastern countries after the basic framework of an agreement had b
In the French town of Lingolsheim, near Strasbourg, a 70-year-old man died after becoming trapped head-first in a sewer shaft he had climbed into to retrieve his dropped keys. The tragedy occurred on Sunday morning as the pensioner was retu
Croatia saw massive traffic jams on the main highways leading to the Adriatic coast on August 1, as one wave of holidaymakers left the resorts and another arrived. The A1 motorway, which runs from Zagreb through Ploče to Karamatići, took th
The resettlement of several Roma families from the Slovak city of Košice to the Hungarian village of Szalonna has ignited a heated political controversy in Hungary. According to local media, the families in question come from the Nad jazero
Hungary is facing the threat of shutting down its only nuclear power plant, Paks, after the Danube's water level plunged to a record low. According to Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar, all four operating reactor units at the plant coul
A Russian theater and film actor who goes by the name Yarmushchik posted a video message on social media in which he stated that he does not consider Vladimir Putin his president and does not recognize Crimea as part of Russia. The clip qui
Spanish authorities have begun installing a roughly half-kilometre-long barrier in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, rising 30–70 cm above the waterline and extending a further metre below the surface. Installation of the barrier began around 8