Europe Serbia On Sunday afternoon thousands of people gathered in the centre of Belgrade to protest against an international pan-European LGBT event scheduled for 12-18 September in Belgrade
Europe Czech Republic The floods that hit the Czech Republic exactly 20 years ago were caused by the close proximity of two major rainy periods that occurred that month, according to a new study by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Europe Finland The Russian invasion of Ukraine had an impact on people applying to study Russian at the University of Tampere, the University of Helsinki and the University of Eastern Finland
Europe Bulgaria Unemployment remains at a record low with - 4.2% in July as registered in June, the Bulgarian Employment Agency reports, adding that at the end of the summer season the declared vacancies on the primary labor market are over 11.000
Europe Iceland HBO is in the country preparing to shoot for season 4 of True Detective: Night Country; the series was given the green light last May, with a likely premiere in 2023
Europe Portugal The government has 'identified the need to study in greater detail and depth the causes of excess deaths' from 2020, as deaths classified 'from other causes' haven't been so high in 100 years
Europe Slovenia Slovenia’s best climber Janja Garnbret was crowned the European champion in lead in Munich on Saturday, her second European champion title after winning one in combined in 2017
Europe Croatia Brothers Valent and Martin Sinković yesterday won the gold medal in the Men's Double Sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships taking place in Munich
Europe Romania A team of artists, theorists, anthropologists and biologists has started research on the Black Sea, with international specialists in digitisation, conservation and artistic promotion of archives, to create a Virtual Museum of the Romanian Sea
Europe San Marino There was no malicious intent, just carelessness on the part of a tourist who, stepping back to take a photo, bumped into a display case, causing a statue inside it to break in the State Museum's 'Beautiful China in San Marino' exhibition
Europe Slovakia Cardinal Jozef Tomko, the Holy See's most influential Slovakian, has died at 98 in Rome; under Pope John Paul II he became prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and was the third most influential person in the Catholic Church
Europe Montenegro The deadliest mass shooting in the history of Montenegro has left at least 12 people dead, including two children and the attacker; the government has declared three days of mourning
Europe Monaco The ecological hot air balloon developed by 'Les aéronautes de Monaco' with the support of the Principality and the Marzocco Group is designed to have a minimal impact on the environment and low fuel consumption