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Twenty students attended their first day of classes on Monday at the Fabric of Saint Peter as part of the new "School of Arts and Crafts" launched by the Vatican to offer technical training to future stonemasons, carpenters and marble craftsmen

Ukrainian soldiers have arrived in the United States to learn how to use the US Patriot air defence system

Russia should stop its efforts to recruit Serbs to fight alongside its paramilitary group Wagner in Ukraine, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said

Voice for Choice said it was concerned about the government's suggested changes to Bill 28, stressing that the law is already the bare minimum and should pass as is without further amendment

Cooperation between the Belarusian State University and the University of Belgrade, including the exchange of students between the two institutions, was discussed in Belgrade, Serbia

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, who directed the award-winning Croatian film Murina, has been nominated for the best first-time director award at the Directors Guild Awards 2023

A critical situation has arisen in Tallinn in recent months, with ambulances sometimes having to wait for several hours outside hospitals to be able to admit patients who needed urgent medical care or often going 100 kilometres away to regional hospitals

Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht has resigned, a decision that had been in the air for days and finally came yesterday

The long-delayed redevelopment of Clerys, 170-year-old department store, on Dublin's O'Connell Street, which closed almost eight years ago, will be completed within a few weeks and shops are expected to open before the summer

The government has earmarked €11 million for an 'action plan' against sexual harassment and violence, saying that 22% of women and 6% of men have been victims of sexual violence

In December, MoraBanc achieved its target of a 15% reduction in electricity consumption under the Government's Energy Saving Agreement thanks to six lines of action

Around 60.000 Portuguese went abroad in 2021, 15.000 more than the previous year, in what the Emigration Report describes as a "remarkable recovery" of exits, after the sharp drop in 2020; the UK was once again the "main destination"