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“To avoid issues with emerging woolly aphids, Christmas trees are often treated intensively,” said Bonte. (Woolly aphids are small sap-sucking insects often found on plants and capable of causing and spreading plant diseases.) “For this reason alone, the FASFC cannot agree with such initiatives,” she added. The warning comes after the city of Ghent’s local council launched a campaign last Thursday promoting several ways to recycle Christmas trees after the holiday season. One of the suggestions included making soup from pine needles, inspired by a traditional Scandinavian recipe. “Your Christmas tree is edible as long as it is not yew,…
The African island nation’s leader accused his prime minister of excessive absences, and gave his party 72 hours to form a new administration. The president of São Tomé and Príncipe, Carlos Vila Nova, has fired his country’s government and its prime minister.In a statement issued on Monday, Nova accused Prime Minister Patrice Emery Trovoada of “prolonged absences” and said the government had failed to provide solutions to major economic and financial challenges, as well as their “social repercussions”.It is not yet clear what specifically precipitated his decision to summarily dismiss the current administration, but he has given his party —…
If the ÖVP is unable to adapt to these new realities, “then there will be new elections,” Kickl said. “We are prepared for that.” Mainstream parties initially gave the FPÖ, which won the most seats in September’s elections, the cold shoulder. But after talks among the other parties collapsed last week, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on Monday tasked Kickl with forming a new government. The FPÖ has been in government before, but only as a junior partner. Kickl’s threat to abandon the talks if his party doesn’t occupy the driver’s seat in government this time around isn’t empty,…
Russia’s invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox Church and has driven a split among believers in both Russia and Ukraine. Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, on Tuesday with gifts he asked the Patriarch to bless for troops fighting in Ukraine.The meeting at a Christmas service at the Church of St. George the Victorious on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow came as the church and its followers celebrated Christmas. Putin extended Christmas greetings to the highest dignitary, and asked Kirill to consecrate crosses…
The annual Consumer Electronics Show opens on January 7 and will host over 4,500 exhibitors in Las Vegas. Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking centre stage as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest tech fair, kicks off this week in Las Vegas.From personal tech and health care to climate solutions, AI was incorporated into multiple gadgets on display amid previews of the multi-day event.Consumer Technology Association (CTA) boss Gary Shapiro says AI will become more personalised and help to “make lives better”.”The chip companies are talking about what you can do with AI,” Shapiro said.“We’ll see the companies themselves,…
Our travel guide is updated as soon as a new European strike is announced. Strikes are a regular occurrence in Europe, as employees withhold their labour to fight for better pay and conditions.Walkouts are sometimes planned months ahead but others are announced last minute, showing that it always pays to check before you travel.Luckily, we have gathered all of the strike information together below.Read on to find out where and when are walkouts taking place.If your flight or train is cancelled or delayed, you will be entitled to a new ticket or compensation. Read our guide for the full details.Italy:…
The company has no plans to end fact-checking in the EU, the company clarified at POLITICO’s request, and will review its EU content moderation obligations before making changes. The move comes as Meta, and other tech giants, attempt to cozy up to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration in Washington. Meta has also put a longtime Republican in charge of global policy and put top Trump ally Dana White on its board of directors. Trump’s pick to head the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr commented on an X post containing Zuckerberg’s announcement with a meme showing the actor Jack Nicholson nodding enthusiastically.…
Trump described the Reform U.K. boss as “handsome” during a rally last year, and has given rare interviews on British television to Farage’s GB News program. Farage also attended Trump’s inauguration in 2016. Speaking on LBC Tuesday, Farage said he will be in the U.S. for four or five days over the inauguration — and that while there he intends to speak with billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk, after a fall-out sparked by their differing views on the far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Farage insisted too that Trump will remain his ally, despite his war of words with Musk. “I’ve been…
Just hours before the Brussels-mediated session to find a resolution was supposed to take place, Fico’s government issued a statement alleging that the Ukrainian side had walked out of discussions. “Due to the fact that the Ukrainian side will not attend … the European Commission has decided to cancel the meeting,” the Slovak government said. But, speaking to POLITICO, Ukraine’s EU ambassador, Vsevolod Chentsov, insisted that the claims were false and that the meeting had actually been initiated by Kyiv to discuss Fico’s warnings he could choke off delivery of power to the grid. “Ukraine triggered the early warning mechanism…
Updated: 07/01/2025 – 13:29 GMT+1 The Mongolian-born Yokozuna prayed for success in the upcoming January tournament as fans braved the cold weather to attend the ceremony. Terunofuji, the sole Yokozuna in sumo, had withdrawn from the November tournament due to injury. … More The Mongolian-born Yokozuna prayed for success in the upcoming January tournament as fans braved the cold weather to attend the ceremony. Terunofuji, the sole Yokozuna in sumo, had withdrawn from the November tournament due to injury.