Europe Latvia There are 1.562 safe bomb shelters in the country according to latest survey of the State Fire and Rescue Service; Riga accounts for about 400 and they could accommodate about 200.000 people, or one third of the city's population
Europe Liechtenstein Faced with a serious shortage of paediatricians, which has worsened in recent months, the country signed a contract with a paediatric practice in Chur, Switzerland
Europe Luxembourg Laura Thorn will represent Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest and will be the country's second participation in the competition this century
Europe Montenegro EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos travelled to Montenegro on her first mission to the Western Balkans, reaffirming EU's engagement with the region and determination to step up the accession process
Europe Greece According to two reports, women start-up founders have difficulty obtaining funding for their projects, but start-up founders and investors disagree on the reasons for the different treatment of men and women
Europe Albania Anastasios Yanulatos, head of Albanian Orthodox Church, has died at the age of 95; known as the man who brought the Church back to life after atheist regime, Yanulatos rebuilt hundreds of churches, trained new priests and established schools and charities
Europe Ireland 800.000 households, including homes, offices and shops, were left without electricity after the passage of storm Éowyn; according to ESB, the company that manages the electricity grid, some buildings could remain without electricity for a week
Europe Iceland The use of tanning beds has steadily decreased: only 5% of people said they had used them in the past 12 months, compared to over 30% in 2004; the number of tanning beds has also decreased, with 86 beds in 2023, compared to 97 in 2020
Europe Hungary Prime Minister Orbán, speaking on Kossuth radio about the main current political issues, stated, among other things, that 'Hungarians were Trumps even before Trump'
Europe Slovenia The government initiated a programme of measures to reduce environmental degradation in several municipalities in the northern region of Koroška, where the situation worsened due to the 2023 floods
Europe Norway The iconic old Tryvann transmission and observation tower in the hills above Oslo, closed and neglected for decades, has finally been sold by city officials to an investor who intends to renovate it and reopen it to the public
Europe Switzerland Switzerland adopted new EU regulation to standardise the collection and transfer of passenger information that aims at enhancing the accuracy and precision of the data gathered and preventing illegal entry of air passengers into the Schengen area
Europe Vatican City Cardinal Parolin, reaffirming that the presence of Christians in the Middle East is essential, held a meeting in Amman with papal representatives of ME nations, in which he called for a ceasefire “on every front”, and spoke to Lebanon's new president