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The German car manufacturer Volkswagen is not ruling out closing factories in Germany as it seeks to save billions more in a cost-cutting program at its namesake brand, the automaker and its works council said Monday. The group considers a major vehicle plant and a component manufacturing site in Germany …

Authorities in Guyana announced the seizure on Sunday (September 1) of about 4.4 tons of cocaine worth $200 million buried near a clandestine airstrip intended to be shipped by boat to Europe. “The drugs were found inside underground bunkers in the west, near the border with Venezuela,” said James Singh, …

In Sarroch, near Cagliari, Italy, the carabinieri discovered the body of a 78-year-old woman in the freezer of the house where she lived with her son, reports the Italian news agency Ansa. The latter, aged 54, was arrested after confessing to the police that he had hidden the death of …

A woman has died and five others have been rescued after a replica of a wooden Viking ship capsized off Norway’s west coast overnight, authorities said on Wednesday. “Five people have been rescued and are safe,” Norwegian emergency services said on X. The body of a woman was found near …

Portugal’s famous striker Cristiano Ronaldo has become the fastest YouTuber to reach one million subscribers on the platform. In just 24 hours, he reached 16 million subscribers, a feat that testifies to his phenomenal popularity far beyond sport. To mark this impressive achievement, YouTube rewarded Ronaldo with a trophy, symbolizing …

A court in the city of Winterthur, Switzerland, has sentenced a woman to pay a fine of 1,000 Swiss francs ($1 162) for having made her daughter miss a week of classes at the beginning of 2023. According to the Luxembourg daily, the teenager’s mother had filed a request for exemption …

The famous French actor Alain Delon has died at the age of 88 on Sunday August 18 at his home in Douchy in France as the announcement was made by his three children. Born in Sceaux in 1935, he came to the cinema almost by chance. His Apollonian physique and …

Belfast City Council in Ireland has launched an investigation on Thursday after an employee at the city’s zoo was locked in an enclosure with lions, Irish newspaper Belfast Telegram reports. The incident happened last week after two zoo employees entered the big cats’ enclosure. One of them reportedly left the …

At least nine people were killed and twenty-six injured on Friday, August 9, in a bus crash that hit a bridge in Ankara, according to an initial report from the governor of the Turkish capital. The accident occurred around 5 a.m. in Turkey (local time) when the passenger bus from …

Former BBC star Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making child pornography images on Wednesday, July 31, during a preliminary hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. This decision allows him to avoid a trial. A star presenter of the 10pm news in the United Kingdom, the 61-year-old journalist, who announced …