A major wildfire has broken out in the Croatian coastal town of Omiš, forcing the evacuation of around three hundred Czech tourists. The news was confirmed by Czech Foreign Ministry spokesman Adam Čorgo in comments to the ČTK news agency.Th
Jean-Marc Peillex, mayor of the French commune of Saint-Gervais, has refused to authorise a free helicopter evacuation for a group of climbers who scaled Mont Blanc in defiance of an official route ban. According to Italy's Corriere della S
A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Somalia: brutal drought and severe food shortages have pushed two million people to the brink of outright starvation — twice as many as a year ago. At the same time, the United States has completel
Off the southern coast of Crete and the island of Gavdos, 327 migrants attempting to reach Europe by boat were rescued over the course of two days. According to Greek state broadcaster ERT, a Frontex border patrol aircraft spotted two boats
In May, the border village of Uhelná (Liberec Region) recorded night-time noise levels from Poland's Turów coal mine above the permitted threshold — according to the Liberec Region governor's office, the average reading came to 41.1 dB, aga
Roughly 5,000 migrants who arrived in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa during a mass border crossing from Morocco in late July are still there, Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on Thursday, according to me
The Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic announced on Facebook that Slovak F-16 fighter jets have carried out their first-ever mid-air refueling over Slovak territory. According to the military, this marked a crucial milestone in pilot train
The remains of Yevhen Konovalets — one of the leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, who was assassinated by a Soviet secret service agent in 1938 — have been brought to Kyiv with full military honors. According to Iryna Ver
In the German city of Rheine, a woman died from stab wounds after calling an emergency hotline to report that her husband was threatening her with a knife. The call suddenly cut off, and when police arrived at the scene, they found the vict
Investigators have determined that shortly after takeoff, a fan blade broke off inside the engine of Ryanair flight FR1879, travelling from Thessaloniki to Memmingen in Bavaria. The flying debris punctured a window, and the resulting pressu
A 52-year-old Italian tourist was seriously injured on the Greek island of Skiathos after being caught in the powerful jet blast from an aircraft engine on a beach right next to the local airport's runway. The incident took place on Monday,
On Thursday, the United States is set to execute three death row inmates in a single day — in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma. According to experts, this is the first time in sixteen years that three executions have taken place on the same