Europe United Kingdom The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will kick-start from Alexander Stadium tonight with the Opening Ceremony, featuring local music legends: pop band Duran Duran and Black Sabath guitarist Tony Iommi
Europe Denmark Prison staff suffer fewer threats and violence at work, with the number of reports falling by 40% in recent years according to a Kriminalforsorgen report based on data from 2021
Europe Czech Republic Slovakia, Poland and Italy have offered to send fire-fighting planes to help the country contain a large forest fire in a national park; currently 410 firefighters from 83 units are fighting the fire in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park
Europe Estonia Recent data show that Estonia experienced the fastest rise in electricity prices in the EU last month, 'inexplicably large' according to Bank of Estonia economist Kaspar Oja
Europe France The National Assembly adopted the finance bill after several days of heated debate, with the text containing topics including the abolition of the audiovisual tax, the fuel rebate and the renationalisation of EDF
Europe Romania A revision of this year’s budget is scheduled in the first half of August; it would need to include a 10% cut to each ministry’s budget, but also the support measures to mitigate the impact of inflation and increasing energy prices
Europe Lithuania The country would be planning to open a trade representative office in Taipei, Asian media reported
Europe Germany Financial incentives to buy electric cars will be reduced next year after an agreement within the governing coalition, as the vehicles' growing popularity makes government subsidies unnecessary
Europe Hungary The Hungarian women's sabre team won the gold medal at the Fencing World Championships in Cairo, for the first time in the women's sabre team or individual event
Europe Poland Tennis star Iga Swiatek, world number 1 of the WTA ranking, helped raise PLN 2 million, €425.000, for Ukraine during an exhibition tournament held in the southern Polish city of Kraków
Europe Bulgaria According to a recent proposal by the Ministry of Justice, the role of the Attorney Generals and the data in their possession could soon be investigated by a supreme court if there is sufficient evidence that they have committed a crime
Europe Monaco A French-Monegasque man, born as a female, has just had his sex changed in his civil status registers in Monaco after undergoing surgery in France, the first time a gender change has been recognised in the ocuntry
Europe Kosovo Two years after illegal diggers unearthed an ancient sarcophagus in the south, authorities apparently didn’t take action to preserve the carved stone coffin or investigate the site around it