Europe

News 10/11/21, 02:19

Researchers believe that Italian mariners knew about America 150 years before Christopher Columbus found the continent. A 14th-century Milanese friar has left a collection of writings referring to Genoan mariners knowing of a country west of Greenland "where giants live." The text was discovered by Italian researchers when researching the Cronica Universalis ...

Europe 10/09/21, 01:37

After an explosion in Georgia, a mob erupted in jubilation as a baby was pulled out alive from the wreckage of a fallen five-story block of apartments. On Friday morning, October 8, a crowd of people—including firefighters and local citizens—gathered around a portion of a fallen residential structure in Batumi, a ...

Europe 10/08/21, 15:49

Poland's Constitutional Court, the country's highest judicial body, rejected in a ruling that European Union laws are above Poland's, adding that some of the European treaties are incompatible with the Polish constitution. The ruling sparked discontent among several members and authorities of the bloc, who warned the Polish government that it ...

South America 10/07/21, 14:52

Police in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discovered a treasure trove of more than 1,000 Nazi collectibles, valued at more than $3.2 million, in the home of a wealthy man accused of child molestation. The 58-year-old alleged pedophile would approach children in his neighborhood in an attempt to lure ...

Europe 10/05/21, 22:22

On Tuesday, Russia sent an actress and a director into space to be the first to film a movie off-planet, according to the Associated Press (AP). At 8:55 GMT, the Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Russian space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station. Inside the ...

Europe 10/05/21, 15:29

A 2,500-page report contains the results of a two-and-a-half-year investigation by the French Independent Commission against Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE), according to which at least 216,000 children were raped in the last seven decades.  The abusers would have been around 3,000 male priests or religious, and when including laypeople ...

Europe 10/05/21, 04:17

When relations with China are increasingly tense, on Sept. 22, 2021, the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense, a minor member of the European Union (EU), warned the country's agencies and people about the risk of spying by Beijing when using Chinese smartphones, specifically Huawei and Xiaomi products. The above recommendation is based ...

Europe 10/02/21, 21:33

A new comprehensive report conducted by the French Ministry of Armed Forces detailing the global infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been published after two years of research, with more than 50 researchers contributing to the report. The report, “Chinese Influence Operations: A Machiavellian Moment,” was authored by Dr. ...

Europe 09/30/21, 15:57

The United States and the European Union signed a joint statement to counter the electronic semiconductor deficit hitting large sectors of global production at a meeting in Pittsburgh on Sept. 29.   "Semiconductors are the material basis for integrated circuits that are essential to modern-day life and underpin our economies," the U.S. ...

News 09/30/21, 01:43

When Norway reclassified COVID-19 as a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), it did not mean health officials in this country thought the virus was as ordinary as flu.  On Sept. 25, the Norwegian government lifted all COVID-19 restrictions and allowed its community back to normal operations after 561 days of the harshest ...

Europe 09/29/21, 15:42

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg mocked world leaders for their 'empty promises' to fight climate change at the Youth4Climate meeting in Milan, Italy. In an unusual speech in which the strapline, "Blah, blah, blah, blah," abounded, she showed discontent as she considered the failure of some countries to follow through with plans ...

Europe 09/27/21, 21:19

An outspoken human rights advocate should go back to California, a former politician said on Sept. 26. Richard Gere has no place testifying against the former Italian interior minister in an illegal alien trial. This is the opinion of defendant Matteo Salvini. Salvini became outraged after learning the Hollywood veteran would oppose ...

News 09/27/21, 06:51

The U.S. government wants to start solving several unsolved riddles in 2021. The CIA has been ramping up its investigation into why hundreds of U.S. officials have been experiencing strange symptoms like headaches, discomfort or pressure in the head, dizziness, and eyesight issues in the last year. U.S. personnel stationed around ...

Europe 09/26/21, 17:31

A new head of government will soon be elected after the highly popular incumbent chose to end her 16 years in the top job. Angela Merkel will not seek reelection for German chancellor. Merkel, who has served since 2005, will step aside and let a different person lead the European Union's ...

News 09/25/21, 16:30

Jérémy Chardy, a renowned French tennis player, was vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus in August. Since then, he has had to stop training and competing due to the severe pain he feels in his body after any physical effort.  The international sports community is shocked after the recently ...

News 09/23/21, 06:36

Germany will discontinue financing unvaccinated workers placed into isolation after coronavirus exposure, Health Minister Jens Spahn announced on Wednesday, Sept. 22. According to Reuters, Spahn said it’s unjust to compel taxpayers to subsidize people who refuse to get inoculated. “It’s about fairness,” Spahn said. “Those who protect themselves and others via a ...