UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated the UN’s full support to Ukraine in a press conference with the country’s war-time president in Kyiv on Wednesday, his third trip to the country in less than a year. “The position of the United Nations, which I have consistently expressed, is crystal clear: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a […]

The Amsterdam City Council has put forward a proposal to set up a large new erotica centre, relocating the city’s infamous red light district. The planned building will have 100 places for sex workers, with space for work breaks and other facilities, according to the proposal.  The council said it wants to relocate legal prostitution […]

Demonstrators once again took to the streets of France on Wednesday decrying President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to raise the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64. Trade unions have called for rolling, open-ended strikes in a bid to bring the country to halt. French train and metro drivers, refinery workers, and garbage collectors continued their […]

Denmark inaugurates on Wednesday a project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea, the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad. The CO2 graveyard, where the carbon is injected to prevent further warming of the atmosphere, is on the site of an old oil field. Led by British chemical […]

Georgians protested against a controversial foreign agent law on Tuesday that some claimed will stifle freedoms in the country.  Riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse tens of thousands of protesters outside the parliament building in Tbilisi, the capital, long into the night.  The law, drafted by the ruling Georgian Dream Party, […]