Europe

Hungary has joined the European Coalition Against Drugs, considering drug trafficking the most severe systemic threats to the safety, health and stability and thus requiring a comprehensive response to reduce demand and dismantle criminal organizations

Samba, France’s last circus elephant, a 38-year-old African elephant, found a permanent home at Richter Safari Park in Hungary;

Grand Duke Guillaume swore the sovereign’s oath in Luxembourg’s parliament to ascend to the throne of Luxembourg in a traditional ceremony attended by royals and European heads of state

The Bosnian Serb strongman has named Sinasa Karan as his candidate for the November 23 presidential elections in the Serb-led entity, finally acknowledging his court conviction and exclusion from office in August

A country-wide test of the civil warning alarm system has used over 8.300 sirens to check the operation of the technical equipment throughout Austria, as well as familiarize all residents with the signals and their meaning

Repurposing of agricultural land will be prohibited, no lands from the agricultural land pool will be allocated for construction or plots; this especially applies many abandoned and unused plots in small communities, Belarus media reported

The weekend in Ordino is dedicated to dance, with the fifth edition of the Contradans festival that opened with a various, high quality program

Hundreds protested against looming Latvian U-turn on Istanbul Convention, saying that exiting the Convention, would give the country an international civil rights reputation similar to that of Turkey the only to have signed up and then exited

Government has yet to approve a firearms law proposed for tightening licensing rules, despite a steady increase in the number of registered gun owners and repeated calls for reform, following two mass shootings in Cetinje that left 23 people dead.

The city of Amsterdam will phased out collectiing individual bags of garbage put on the street and focus on more underground trash containers or other alternatives

Following a number of actions targeting Bangladeshi residents by Roskilde University, Syddansk University and the Danish government, Bangladesh’s diplomatic mission has lodged a formal protest and issued a press release to Danish media

Airline Play collapse would have had more impact on the Icelandic aviation market if the airline had not already reduced its flight schedule, says the CEO of Icelandair, adding Icelandair has little room for more flights to help stranded travellers

A verbal assault on King Harald V, broadcast by his son-in-law Durek Verrett, has set off public uproar among Norwegians; calls for the king to strip Princess Martha Louise, of her royal title have come from monarchists hose favouring a republic