Europe

The European Union will reintroduce the duties on bran imports from Ukraine startingMonday 22 July; they had been set at zero for another year last 6 June to support the economy in Kiev

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz rejected the request of his Norwegian counterpart Espen Barth Eide to visit Tel Aviv in protest against Oslo’s recognition of the State of Palestine last May

Italian Anna Grasselino is leading the race for the world's most powerful quantum computer after an agreement signed between Sqms, the top quantum superconducting research centre in the USA, and Ibm, a leading company in the sector

Architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron presented Kornmarktplatz, arched structure that extends behind a neo-Baroque façade in Bregenz and contains a flat and a hotel on a site previously occupied by a 17th century building collapsed after its roof took fire

For the 2024 Olympic Games, France, the host country, has banned Muslim women from wearing the sports hijab or any other form of religious headgear when competing for France

Serbia and Montenegro have opened a joint rail border crossing, with a facility that should reduce the journey time for goods trains by at least one hour

Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey sent planes and helicopters to North Macedonia to help firefighters who have been fighting a series of wild fires caused by high temperatures for several days

Don Giuseppe Innocentini has turned 95; senior dean of priests in San Marino-Montefeltro diocese, he created the first colony to allow San Marino children from the humblest families to go on holiday and founded the Juvenes sports club in 1953

President Vucic declared in June that Serbia could start mining lithium as early as 2028 thanks to new guarantees from Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto; opponents have promised protests if lithium mining goes ahead

Photovoltaic panel manufacturer Bisol saw its results for 2023 heavily impacted by the devastating floods that hit Slovenia in August last year, with the company's turnover down 40% compared to 2022

More and more foreigners from third countries are purposely applying for work permits instead of business permits, threatening Slovak craftsmen, the Association of Industrial and Transport Trade Unions claims

Over the next two years, the Ministry of the Interior will test a new 'Taskusireen' system (Pocket Siren) that sends threat notifications to smartphones; it can send messages when mobile connections are down and even when the phone is in silent mode

The country experienced its tenth consecutive day of heatwave on Wednesday, according to the Meteorological Weather Service of the National Observatory of Athens