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A decades-old clean-up competition has left Hungary’s largest artificial lake nearly rubbish-free. ADVERTISEMENTMore than seven tonnes of plastic waste was collected from Hungary’s Lake Tisza as part of a historic clean-up competition called the PET Cup. The teams, referred to as PET Pirates, sailed on the artificial lake’s high seas in the country’s southeast with kayaks and makeshift boats to gather the waste. The more plastic the pirates accumulated, the closer they inched to winning the coveted PET Cup. The PET Cup started in 2013 with the aim of ridding Hungary’s most magnificent natural wonders from garbage. Although Lake Tisza…

President Joe Biden faces a growing media storm as pressure for him to drop out of the Democratic Party campaign for President grows from the public and within in his own party. ADVERTISEMENT“No one is pushing me out,” says Biden despite growing pressure from within his Democratic Party to withdraw from the presidential race. President of the United States Joe Biden vowed on Wednesday to keep running for re-election despite a growing sense of concern from members of his party over his debate performance against former President Donald Trump. The debate sparked a series of questions over whether 81-year-old Biden was…

Video. The European Union says that a merger between the two airlines will not breach antitrust rules. Source link

At least five dead and over 47 injured after a Russian attack on Dnipro. One of the strikes damaged a large shopping centre along with other nearby facilities. Source link

Video. The GERB party, which proposed the minority government, finished first in the June elections but has only 68 legislators in the 240-seat National Assembly. Source link

Shortly after kicking-off the rotating EU Presidency seat, Hungary is aligning with Poland to unfold geothermal energy in Europe. Source link

Updated: 03/07/2024 – 13:35 GMT+2Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church has elected Daniil, a 52-year-old considered to be pro-Russian, as its new leader in a vote that reflected the divisions in the church and wider society since Russian invaded Ukraine more than two years ago. Source link

A UN report has found that China filed six times more patent findings than the US. ADVERTISEMENTChina is filing the most patents for generative artificial intelligence (AI) inventions in the world, significantly more than the United States, which ranked in second place, according to a report by the UN agency for intellectual property. Generative AI, includes inventions such as chatbots and the creation of new content in the form of text, images, video or sound.There have been more than 50,000 patent applications in the last decade for this technology, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).More than 25 per cent…

French parties race against a deadline to block the far-right as the future of their country’s democracy hangs in the balance. ADVERTISEMENTFrench parties raced against a deadline to block the far-right as the future of their country’s democracy hangs in the balance. Candidates to the French National Assembly are facing a 6pm deadline on Tuesday to register for the second round of high stakes snap legislative elections on Sunday or withdraw.  French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party and a hastily united left-wing coalition are manoeuvring to prevent the far-right National Rally from taking power in the country’s parliament following their success…

Seven people remain missing after the boat, named as the Virgem Dolorosa, overturned north of Lisbon. Source link