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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbàn met for two and a half hours in the Kremlin on Friday. Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said many topics had been discussed in what he called a very good atmosphere, especially Ukraine. Putin recently made a proposal to end the war against Ukraine […]

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators said Friday they have arrested a third suspect in an attempt to blackmail the family of a former Formula 1 driver. Michael Schumacher. The 52-year-old man, who was arrested on Thursday in a town near Wuppertal in western Germany, worked for the family as a security officer, the German news

Italian officials offer $32,000 to start over in Tuscany. Too good to be true? Italy is trying to attract new residents to its countryside in all sorts of ways, as thousands of small towns risk disappearing within 25 years. In the mountainous Italian region of Molise, new residents were offered €700 ($770) a month for

Catania airport in Sicily gradually reopened to flights on Friday after they were temporarily suspended due to an eruption of Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano. The airport said it was reopening to departing aircraft on Friday afternoon after the runway was cleared. On X it says “the number of arrivals is temporarily limited to two

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (C), German Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck (R) and German Finance Minister Christian Lindner attend a press conference on the 2025 budget. The coalition parties have agreed on a draft budget. Michael Kappeler/dpa The leaders of Germany’s three-party coalition reached a major breakthrough in negotiations over the

In 2023, forest fires in Germany affected an area the size of approximately 1,771 football fields. A total of 1,059 fires were recorded in the year, destroying around 1,240 hectares of forest, according to the Federal Information Centre for Agriculture (BZL) in Bonn. In 2022, the figures were more than double, with 2,397 fires and

The Nordea logo is seen at a branch in Copenhagen. Danish authorities accused Finland-based Nordea bank on Friday of failing to take action to prevent more than $3.5 billion in money laundering by customers in Russia. Steffen Trumpf/dpa Danish authorities on Friday accused Finnish bank Nordea of ​​failing to take action to prevent money laundering

CHICAGO — The Fourth of July was a 24-hour chaos in Chicago, with at least eight people killed and more than 40 injured in separate shootings. One of the incidents is the shooting of eight people in the Little Italy neighborhood. Police were called to the 1300 block of West Hastings just after midnight for

German coalition leaders have agreed to lower bureaucratic barriers for foreigners seeking work in the country. Under the terms of the preliminary national budget for 2025, approved on Friday by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner, the powers of German immigration authorities to refuse work permits will be limited.

Germany has delivered a third Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, authorities said on Friday. German Ambassador to Ukraine Martin Jäger said on the social media platform X that the measure “would help improve the protection of the population and infrastructure.” “The Ukrainian crew has successfully completed appropriate training in Germany,” he added. During the