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News digest: What you need to know from Day Two of the Cintula trial
The Slovak Spectator
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July 9, 2025
Greetings. You’re reading the Wednesday, 9 July edition of Today in Slovakia. We’re eternally grateful to have you with us. Welcome! Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement Wednesday brought further...
The ultimate 'toe-warmer' cruise you need to do in Europe
Nine
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July 11, 2025
If you've been contemplating heading to Europe and sampling a river cruise, may I offer a suggestion? The Danube is the ultimate toe warmer. This river flows through 10 countries that are filled with culture, history, and the yummiest food....
Culture Ministry quietly reveals cost of crate used in Donatello bust transfer
The Slovak Spectator
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July 10, 2025
Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement Over 40 days have passed since the quiet and controversial removal of a Renaissance bust – believed to be by Donatello – from the Spiš Museum in Levoča,...
The public paid. Fico partied.
The Slovak Spectator
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July 7, 2025
It was meant to be a national celebration. Instead, it became a tightly managed showcase for Slovakia’s ruling party. Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement At the foot of Devín Castle in...
Doxing: When Private Data Becomes a Russian Weapon
Vsquare
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July 9, 2025
Kateryna’s husband, Oleksiy (names changed), volunteered for the Ukrainian army in the first days of the war. Kateryna still has the memory of him leaving home in a uniform he had never worn before, with a backpack borrowed from a friend.They talk...
Kanye West in trouble? Sources reveal massive financial strain could be career-threatening
The Economic Times
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July 10, 2025
Kanye West is known for getting into trouble, but this time it could cost him everything. People say that Ye is in a lot of money trouble that could end his career. This is because other countries have banned it, the team is breaking up, and there...
'I've visited every country in Europe and there are four I wouldn't go back to'
RSVP Live
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July 10, 2025
Lexie Limitless, an American YouTuber who holds the impressive title of being the youngest person to visit every country in the world at just 21 years old, has recently named four European countries she might not necessarily recommend. Having...
French Open PIX: Venus shocked; Sinner stuns Goffin
Rediff
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Images from Day 1 of the 2020 French Open, in Paris. IMAGE: Venus Williams reacts after defeat to Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova on Sunday, Day 1 of the 2020 French Open, at Roland Garros, Paris. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images...
Pax, French clericalism, and American iconography
The Pillar
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July 11, 2025
Happy Friday friends, And a happy feast of St. Benedict to you all. I am back after having taken last week off, though unfortunately this season’s edition of covid meant we had to turn around and come home after only a day away. I‘d been looking...
Across Borders, Beyond Shame:“From Error To Error” Charts A Woman's Quest For Wholeness
MENAFN
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July 9, 2025
(MENAFN- GetNews) Monika Killeen's second novel, From Error to Error, is not just a story-it's a sweeping, psychological journey across time, continents, and the deepest wounds of the human heart. Spanning Slovakia, Prague, London, and the islands...
Kanye West PAYS Bianca Censori 'hundreds of thousands' to carry out sordid stunts: Insiders spill staggering sum he lost overnight and say crisis is worse than anyone knows
Daily Mail
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July 9, 2025
Kanye West is playing a small music festival in Slovakia next week – a career climb-down that’s almost his only option left after becoming a ‘global pariah’. I can reveal he has been told to ‘stay away’ from Germany, France, the UK, Spain, Italy,...
WCSO K-9 McCoy retires from active service
Fayette County Union - Iowa
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The Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office announced the retirement of K-9 deputy McCoy on Wednesday (July 9). McCoy, a Belgian Malinois, was born on May 24, 2014, in the Slovak Republic. He underwent training in Arkansas before traveling to North...
'I've been to all 44 countries in Europe but I struggled with four of them'
The Mirror US
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July 10, 2025
Lexie Limitless, an American YouTuber who holds the impressive title of being the youngest person to visit every country in the world at just 21 years old, recently shared her thoughts on the 44 countries in Europe. In a recent video titled 'I...
Zvolen’s Deserted Castle set for major makeover
The Slovak Spectator
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July 4, 2025
Work could begin this autumn on a €1.3 million upgrade of Pustý hrad – known as the “Deserted Castle” – a mediaeval ruin overlooking the town of Zvolen in central Slovakia. Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video...
2040 emissions target: Where EU's climate policy is headed
ANSA
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July 11, 2025
It's summer in Europe: The continent has been hit by a heatwave, driving up temperature far above anything comfortable for most people, animals or vegetation. There are also droughts and wildfires in some areas, while others battle flooding. Right...
‘We haven’t retired yet, but we’ll still go to 12 countries this year’
The Times
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Justin Leigh is just back from a trip to Spain but is already thinking about his next holiday. He and his wife Katie, 53, describe themselves as semi-retired, fitting in work between trips abroad. Rather than the typical five or six weeks of...
Missing Ukrainian student found dead in Italy in apparent suicide, authorities say
The Kyiv Independent
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July 9, 2025
An 18-year-old Ukrainian girl who had gone missing in southern Italy was found dead on July 8 in what Italian authorities say may have been a suicide, Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne reported. Mariia Buhaiova, born in 2007, disappeared on July 4...
Is Pakistan on the list as China expands visa-free entry to 74 countries?
Daily Pakistan
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July 9, 2025
BEIJING – China has significantly widened its visa-free travel policy, now allowing citizens from 74 nations to enter the country for up to 30 days without requiring a visa. This move has already resulted in a sharp increase in international...
Weekly global protein digest: Trump administration sues California over egg laws
The Poultry Site
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Livestock analyst Jim Wyckoff reports on global protein news USDA closes southern border after new screwworm case detected in Mexico USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins late Wednesday ordered an immediate shutdown of livestock trade through all southern...
PICS: Schmiedlova stuns Azarenka; Nadal, Thiem cruise
Rediff
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Images from Day 4 of the French Open, at Roland Garros, in Paris. IMAGE: Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova continued her stunning return to form in Paris, having beaten Venus Williams in round one to end a run of 12 consecutive first-round...