Estonia election: i-voting comes of age in the world’s ‘digital republic’ with record ballots
For the first time since Internet voting was introduced in Estonia, more digital votes have been cast in this month’s general election than physical paper ballots. The Baltic nation introduced i-voting in 2005 as part of a drive to push…
‘We’re not breaking the law’: UK doubles down after new ‘Stop the Boats’ migrant crackdown announced
Britain’s interior minister has been forced to deny the government’s new crackdown on migrant boats crossing the Channel was announced in language “not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s”. Home Secretary Suella Braverman did a round of…
Moldova is resisting Moscow’s maskirovka. Can the Western security shield protect it?
Moldova is having a watershed moment in its three-decades-long existence as an independent state and its split from the crumbling Soviet Union in 1991. The eastern European country of 2.6 million is enduring the tensest times in its short history…
Ukraine war: Russia’s Wagner Group claims full control of eastern Bakhmut districts
The owner of Russia’s Wagner Group military contractor claimed that Russian troops have extended their gains in the Ukrainian stronghold of Bakhmut, on Wednesday. Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose troops have spearheaded the fight in Bakhmut, said they have taken full control…
In Kyiv, António Guterres reaffirms UN’s ‘full commitment’ to Ukraine
UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated the UN’s full support to Ukraine in a press conference with the country’s war-time president in Kyiv on Wednesday, his third trip to the country in less than a year. “The position of the United…
Amsterdam’s red light district relocation proposal sparks concerns
The Amsterdam City Council has put forward a proposal to set up a large new erotica centre, relocating the city’s infamous red light district. The planned building will have 100 places for sex workers, with space for work breaks and…
Nationwide strikes continue to cause serious disruptions in France
Demonstrators once again took to the streets of France on Wednesday decrying President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to raise the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64. Trade unions have called for rolling, open-ended strikes in a bid to bring the…
Denmark, the first country to import CO2 and bury it undersea
Denmark inaugurates on Wednesday a project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea, the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad. The CO2 graveyard, where the carbon is injected to prevent further warming…
‘Dark day for Georgia’s democracy’: Mass protests over foreign agent law
Georgians protested against a controversial foreign agent law on Tuesday that some claimed will stifle freedoms in the country. Riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse tens of thousands of protesters outside the parliament building in Tbilisi,…
Husband in Spain ordered to pay Є200,000 to ex-wife for domestic labour
A Spanish judge in the town of Velez-Malaga in Malaga, Andalusia, has recognised that a divorced woman should be compensated with Є204,624.86 as compensation for the work at home and care performed during her 25-year marriage. According to the ruling,…