Europe Latvia 400 kindergartens received similar threatening e-mails yesterday as those already received by 300 schools on Tuesday; State Police immediately informed the kindergartens that these were low-level threats and it wasn't necessary to evacuate the facilities
Europe Ireland About 210.000 students up to the Junior Cycle will get free books; the funds will not cover the cost of digital devices and it will not apply to nearly 30.000 students attending fee-paying schools
Europe Iceland MAST, the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority, will be equipped with its own vessels and an increase in staff to better monitor fish farms
Europe Czech Republic Czech Airlines, founded on 6 October 1923, celebrated its 100th birthday with a special section on its website featuring facts, key events, stories and photos from its long history
Europe Portugal Portuguese coffee roasting company Delta Café has launched in Lisbon "the impossible coffe", the first Portuguese coffee entirely produced in the Azores
Europe France UNICEF France and a dozen civil society associations sent a letter to the PM asking her to urgently develop an ambitious national strategy for the mental health of children and young people
Europe Portugal Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable system to connect Portugal, Bermuda and the US, has been announced; named after the Portuguese word for “cloud,” it will improve network resiliency across the Atlantic
Europe Belarus Belarus is among top 15 countries out of 172 in UPU 2022 Integrated Postal Development Index; since 1947 it is a member of the Universal Postal Union, an international intergovernmental organisation with the status of a specialised agency of the UN
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina Several companies exhibited their products at the Bosnia and Herzegovina pavilion at the Anuga Fine Food 2023 trade fair, running from 7 to 11 October 2023 in Cologne, Germany
Europe Czech Republic On the night of Sunday, 8 October, the Czech Republic's Giant Mountains witnessed the first snowfall of the season, with patches of snow above 1.100 metres
Europe Denmark The Danish defence industry will restart munitions production after a 55-year halt, in response to increased demand for military hardware in Europe also due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine