Madrid has become the second Western European capital to ban the hire of e-scooter, just over a year after Paris banned them from its streets. The measure will come into force in October, Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida announced on Thursday. The licences of the three current providers will be revoked because “they have not complied...
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IDSCS: Little progress in implementation of common regional market and green agenda within Berlin Process
Four years after the governments participating in the Berlin Process adopted the action plans on a common regional market and the green agenda, there is little progress. The biggest achievement remains the free roaming in the Western Balkan countries, but it is far from enough to claim that progress has been made, concluded speakers at...
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Turkish Olympic shooter aims to trademark viral stance
Turkey’s Olympic pistol sharpshooter Yusuf Dikeç has filed to trademark his nonchalant stance at the Paris Games that went viral around the world, his coach told Agence France-Presse on Monday. Coach Erdinç Bilgili said the move to protect the commercial use of his pose with the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office came in response to...
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Polio vaccination campaign set to begin in Gaza Strip
Hundreds of thousands of children are to be vaccinated against polio in the embattled Gaza Strip from Sunday morning. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hospitals, doctors’ surgeries and mobile teams are to start immunizing 640,000 children against the virus responsible for polio within a few days. Four weeks must separate the two doses...
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New school year: Number of elementary and high school students drops
Monday marks the start of the 2024/2025 school year for all students in elementary and high schools. According to Education Ministry’s data, the new school year will start for 245,000 elementary and high school students, down by 17,000 in the past seven years. “The number of first graders also dropped by nearly 3,500 compared to...
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UN: Western Balkans population to drop by 3 million by 2050
United Nations estimates show the population of the Western Balkan countries will drop by around 3 million people by 2050. A total of 16.977.000 people live in the Western Balkans based on figures from 2023, according to estimates, this number would drop to 13.975.000 by 2050. According to the UN, the population of North Macedonia...
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Sinner becomes first Italian man to win Cincinnati Open
World number one Jannik Sinner defeated home favourite Frances Tiafoe in Monday’s final of the Cincinnati Open, becoming the first Italian man to win the title. The Italian took one hour and 37 minutes to defeat the American 7-6 (7-4), 6-2. Sinner continued to make history after becoming the first Italian man to become world...
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Amnesty calls on Turkey to release ousted MP, investigate violence in parliament
Amnesty International Secretary-General Agnès Callamard has called on Turkish authorities to release from prison a jailed politician who had been stripped of his parliamentary immunity and seat and to investigate recent turmoil in the Turkish parliament during an extraordinary session that was intended to address the status of the politician. Callamard made the remarks on...
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Canada battling more than 800 active wildfires from coast to coast
Hundreds of wildfires are currently raging across Canada, with over 800 active fires, 223 of which are out of control, according to the latest report from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) dated Monday. Scientists note that this year’s fires are unusually widespread, affecting regions from the West Coast to the Atlantic provinces in...
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Covid-19 cases on the rise, Infectious Diseases Commission urges compliance with respiratory infection prevention measures
The Commission for Infectious Diseases has determined an increase in the number of Covid-19 infections compared to the previous week and reminds the citizens of the need to respect the general measures for the prevention of respiratory infections, the Ministry of Health said in a press release Tuesday. “Crowds and long stays in closed areas...