Europe

Abundant rainfall has brought dams throughout Portugal near full capacity; the warning that controlled, temporary discharges of water from Odeleite and Beliche dams will be carried out, was saluted with curiosity and surprise as it didn't happen for years

Saturday's demonstration in Belgrade was the largest ever organised against President Vučić in the four months of protest, with some 107.000 people arriving from all over Serbia; according to others, the number may have been three times as many

Singer Miriana Conte will take to the next Eurovision Song Contest a different song as the one previously chosen featured a word in the refrain of the original version that sounds very similar to a vulgar word in the English vocabulary

The conservative CDU/CSU bloc of German election winner Friedrich Merz and the Social Democrats reached an agreement in principle with the Greens on plans for a massive increase in state loans ahead of next week's parliamentary vote

The number of houses offered for short-term rent in Ireland is almost nine times higher than the number available for long-term rental, according to data from charity Threshold

Guarantees of origin will be issued starting in April, said the CEO of the national electricity market operator, a step towards laying the foundations for greater transparency and trust in the energy market

President Zelensky reiterated that he is ready to hold elections only 'after the end of the war'

Temporary traffic restrictions will be in place around central Athens today due to the inauguration of Greece’s new president, Konstantinos Tasoulas, who had won the Greek presidential election in the 4th round of voting on 12 February with 160 votes

The Coalition against Wage Discrimination, made up of 52 organisations, addressed the government in an open letter urging to eradicate wage discrimination against women; a woman in Switzerland loses an average of around $9.000 a year in salary

In 2024, for the first time in sixteen years, Austria's trade balance was in surplus, with imports lowernthan exports, according to figures provided on Friday by Statistics Austria

Officials of the United Russia party allegedly donated meat mincers for 8 March to the mothers of Russian soldiers who died on the Ukrainian front; the gesture has caused great controversy as it recalls the sending of soldiers to slaughter

The Moscow Centre of the World Association of Nuclear Operators will conduct a planned partner inspection at the Belarusian nuclear power plant from 10 to 26 March 2025 for the achievement of high performance