“These Olives Are Perfect This Year!” There are some mornings when the countryside feels peaceful and quiet, with birds singing, leaves gently moving in the breeze, and the warm sun shining through the trees. Then there are olive-picking mornings, when everyone is busy, baskets are filling up, and somebody inevitably becomes the unofficial quality-control manager…
Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar on Thursday cast doubt on a deal struck by his predecessor that would see Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom expand Hungary’s nuclear power capacity. Weeks of extreme heat and drought have pushed the Danube River to record lows, slashing output at Hungary’s Paks nuclear plant — which normally supplies around…
Most trade in ivory from elephants and other endangered animals is banned by international agreement under CITES, a treaty to which almost all UN member countries are parties.
The overloaded government ferry, a vital link for villagers and fish traders around the vast Lake Kariba, overturned in choppy waters on Tuesday in one of the country’s worst passenger boat disasters.
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The Netherlands is investigating an explosion at the port of Rotterdam that killed one person and injured several others on Thursday, 13 August. The blast happened at about 11:30 a.m. at an oil facility in the Europoort industrial section of Europe’s largest port.
Brussels has transformed its historic Grand Place into a giant floral version of Japan’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, using around 500,000 dahlias laid out over 1,300 square metres of cobblestones.
When Pilots Take a Dance Break Flying a plane is usually considered a serious job. There are instruments to check, controls to monitor, and plenty of buttons that definitely look like they should not be pressed just for fun. But apparently, there are moments when even a pilot decides that the best way to handle…
Leavitt, who served Trump as a press aide during his first term in the White House, has been one of the most visible advocates of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement.
Eurovision has changed its rules to block countries involved in armed conflict or any other “sensitive geopolitical situation” from hosting the annual song contest. The change comes as the last two years of the contest have been overshadowed by controversy surrounding Israel’s participation. Five countries staged an unprecedented boycott of the 2026 contest rather than…