MADRID: The foreign ministers of several Muslim and European countries will meet in Madrid on Friday to discuss how to implement a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Spanish and Norwegian governments said. Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares will host the meeting, which will be attended by his European counterparts, European Union foreign … Read more
Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Love,” which premiered in Venice competition, and received the film critics’ prize Bisato d’Oro, has sold to additional European territories. The film will screen in Busan’s World Cinema strand next month. The film has secured distribution for Greece (One from the Heart), Baltics (Best Film Baltics), Ex-Yugoslavia (MCF MegaCom), Poland … Read more
KARACHI: Renowned Pakistani boxer Muhammad Waseem has been denied a European visa by Denmark, preventing him from competing in a crucial world title fight scheduled for October 4 in Malta. Waseem, a two-time world champion, expressed his disappointment in an interview with Express News, saying, “I have been a world champion twice, and they rejected … Read more
AMSTERDAM: Ride-hailing platform Uber has been fined 290 million euros ($324 million) in the Netherlands for sending the personal data of European taxi drivers to the United States in violation of EU rules, Dutch data protection watchdog DPA said on Monday. Uber has stopped the practice, DPA added. “This flawed decision and extraordinary fine are … Read more
BANGKOK: Thailand has detected an mpox case in a European man who arrived from Africa last week and is awaiting test results to determine the strain, a disease control official said on Wednesday. Thai authorities were treating the case as if it were the Clade 1 form of mpox, as the person, a 66-year-old European … Read more
Listen to article Poland received a European arrest warrant issued by Berlin in connection with the 2022 attack on Nord Stream pipelines, but the suspect, a Ukrainian man named as Volodymyr Z, has already left Poland, Polish prosecutors told Reuters. He was able to leave as Germany had failed to include his name in a database of … Read more
A representational image shows a tourist taking a photo of the view. — Unsplash Some popular holiday destinations are getting creative and using unique strategies to encourage tourists to adopt a better behaviour during their visit. Recently, countries including the Netherlands, Greece, and Spain witnessed mass demonstrations against overtourism which has resulted in increased rents. … Read more