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159 kg of poorly preserved and unlabelled food were seized in a restaurant as part of a Civil Police inspection carried out together with officials from the Prevention Department of the Veterinary Health and Food Hygiene Unit

NATO's mission in Kosovo, KFOR, has rejected the Serbian government's request to send up to 1.000 police and army troops to Kosovo after clashes between Serbs and Kosovo authorities

In Forbes Hungary list of billionaires, for the first time in several years, Mészáros did not take first place, occupied instead by Sándor Csányi, CEO of Hungary's largest bank, OTP; he is the first person to cross the 500 billion threshold

Greek seismologists have warned that the magnitude 4,9 earthquake that shook the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos early Saturday morning, causing rock falls and minor damage to old houses, may not be the main event

The draft of a new law would allow foreigners residing in Germany to obtain citizenship without having to renounce their original nationality

The Ministry of the Environment urged that the large number of used batteries should be disposed of in special collection containers and not together with general waste under any circumstances

The Czech retail market once again proved its attractiveness for retail brands, with 38 new arrivals last year, the same figure as in 2021 but an increase of around 50% compared to 2019 and 2020

The unusually high temperatures for this time of year have caused a lot of problems for farmers, particularly beekeepers: there is a risk that bees will freeze as the warmer weather will drive them out of their hives

A law on asset forfeiture was published on the website of the National Register of Legal Information, adopted in view of the need to respond immediately and effectively to existing threats to the national interests of Belarus

President Zelensky signed a decree to apply economic sanctions against 119 Russian celebrities who are reported to supported the war; presidential adviser Podolyak called the sanctioned personalities 'death propagandists'

Spanish national police arrested Michael J. Pratt, one of FBI's 10 most wanted criminals, listed as a fugitive in September after being accused of sex crimes in connection with his websites GirlsDoPorn and GirslDoToys

Footballer Hamšík, addiction expert Okruhlica and Canadian-Slovak photographer Dojč are just some of the 28 personalities to whom President Čaputová conferred state honours

The passport service is producing 'record passport numbers', beating the previous biggest year, 2019, by almost 20%; according to the Department of Foreign Affairs, in 2022 over 985.000 passports were issued