Europe

Planned changes to election law might mean that Bosnia’s constituent nations – Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs – will no longer have representatives in the House of Peoples of the Federation parliament if their numbers in any Federation canton are less than 3%

Inheritance is becoming an increasingly important wealth source in Finland as large age groups die and pass on their wealth to future, smaller generations - said Hannu Nummiaro, an economist at Lähi-Tapiola

For the first time for this kind of environmental crime, four people have been fined for trying to send four containers of electronic and hazardous waste to Nigeria; they admitted they had already exported 35

Ukrainian scientists at Chernobyl, in cooperation with Greenpeace Germany, have reported that the values at Chernobyl are outside the norm, at least three times higher than the estimates made by the International Atomic Energy Agency

Conductor Stefan Soltesz, 73, died Friday night after a collapse while conducting ‘The Silent Woman’ by Richard Strauss at the National Theatre in Munich, Germany

Car­bfix gets the highest EU grant any Icelandic company has been awarded; the EU Innovation Fund will support the development and building of Coda Terminal plant in Straumsvík, the first of its sort in the world for storing liquid CO2 on land

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is lending Moldova €300m to help it secure additional gas reserves that could compensate for possible supply disruptions caused by Russia's war with Ukraine

Refugees from twenty European countries considered 'safe' will need a visa to enter Ireland, suspending for one year the validity of the visa waiver agreement for refugees

Forest fires consumed 57.940 hectares this year, more than double the entire 2021 figure, according to provisional data from the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forestry

The country will not extend residence permits to non-Ukrainians who had a temporary residence permit in Ukraine before leaving the country to "ease the burden on municipalities"

A date has been set for presidential elections, 23 October, to choose its fifth president, with a potential runoff between two candidates that could be set for 13 November

Croatian air traffic controllers called off the strike that was to begin, saying they would resume negotiations with management; the strike would have reduced the number of flights over Croatian airspace to only 40% of standard capacity