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This article was originally published in Portuguese Lisbon’s waste collection workers are on strike, leaving piles of trash across the city as unions demand better conditions and accuse the authorities of failing to address the issues. Lisbon is grappling with a growing waste crisis as waste collection workers are on the second and final day of a citywide strike on Friday. Organised by the Municipal Workers Union of Lisbon (STML) and the Local Administration Workers Union (STAL), the strike has left piles of uncollected rubbish across the Portuguese capital during the busy festive season, when waste levels typically spike.Residents have taken…

Polls currently show the Germany’s conservative alliance, led by chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz, to be far ahead in the race, with 31 percent support. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is second at 19 percent, and Scholz’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) is third at 17 percent. Merz has drawn his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) sharply to the right on issues like migration and energy. Should he and his conservatives win the election, it could mark Germany’s sharpest swerve to the right in decades, though that shift is likely be be somewhat moderated by the likely participation of at least…

Several airline companies suspended flights to Russia following the deadly crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane Wednesday, as suspicions grow that the aircraft was brought down by Russian air defenses.  Azerbaijan Airlines announced it will suspend flights to 10 Russian cities — Mineralnye Vody, Sochi, Volgograd, Ufa, Samara, Grozny, Makhachkala, Saratov, Nizhny Novgorod, and Vladikavkaz — as of December 28.The airline made the decision after “taking into account preliminary results into the crash … which was caused by physical and technical external interference, and the risks that may arise in flight safety.” The civilian airliner was flying from the Azerbaijani…

Cecilia Sala is being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, according to her newspaper Il Foglio. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech Share

Four other telecommunications cables between Finland and Estonia and between Finland and Germany were also damaged.“We’ve decided to send our navy close to Estlink 1 to defend and secure our energy connection with Finland,” Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said in a post on X.Speaking on a morning local radio show, Pevkur said he had proposed a joint patrol with Finland.  “Not just with Finland, but with all of our allies, really. The Finns are discussing this today, and I believe they will join us. Additionally, we agreed yesterday that NATO will engage on a military level,” he said. The…

Aitana, 25, a pink-haired woman from Barcelona, receives weekly private messages from celebrities asking her out. But this model is not real. Aitana, a model created by artificial intelligence (AI) in Spain, was born into a difficult period.Rubén Cruz, her designer and founder of the agency The Clueless, was going through a rough patch because he didn’t have many clients.”We started analysing how we were working and realised that many projects were being put on hold or cancelled due to problems beyond our control. Often it was the fault of the influencer or model and not due to design issues,”…

“The air traffic control tower, the departure lounge — just a few meters from where we were — and the runway were damaged. We will need to wait for the damage to the airport to be repaired before we can leave,” said Ghebreyesus.Houthi-run news agency Saba said a further three people were killed at another strike in the western Hodeidah province.The U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the escalation in Yemen.”I regret the recent escalation between Yemen and Israel, and remain deeply concerned about the risk of further escalation in the region,” Guterres said in a post on X. “Today’s airstrikes…

When Russia takes Ukrainian children from their homes and families, Ukrainian mothers have no other choice but to risk their lives trying to bring their kids back, even if that means weeks of travel through Russia and days-long FSB interrogations Otherwise, entire generations might be lost forever. When Russian forces occupied Kherson in the early days of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Moscow troops soon started targeting Ukrainian children. Tetyana Bodak from Kherson is raising eight children. When the city was under occupation, she did her best to protect them from the Russian troops, resisting as long as she could and not…

Updated: 27/12/2024 – 11:48 GMT+1 The ice-skating season at Lake Weissensee in Carinthia began today, with a 15cm thick ice layer allowing access to the western part. Temperatures have been low, ensuring solid ice. Around 1,000 locals … More The ice-skating season at Lake Weissensee in Carinthia began today, with a 15cm thick ice layer allowing access to the western part. Temperatures have been low, ensuring solid ice. Around 1,000 locals enjoyed the sunny weather on the 3.5 km ice ring.

LONDON — Nigel Farage has challenged the main U.K. opposition Conservative Party to carry out an audit of its membership figures after claiming his upstart Reform UK had eclipsed it. The Brexiteer used the festive period to declare Reform the “real opposition,” unveil a flashy “ticker” to count up new recruits and claim his party had passed the 131,680 membership figure the Tories revealed at the time of the Conservative leadership contest in November. That contest’s victor, Kemi Badenoch , swiftly took to X to accuse Farage of “manipulating” support, suggesting the membership tracker had been “coded to tick up automatically.” …