Spain's top football league announced it has agreed in principle to sell 10 percent of its business to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners for $3.2 billion, a welcome boost to clubs whose finances have taken a hit during the pandemic.
Raging wildfire surrounds a monastery and a dozen villages on Evia Island, just one of over 100 blazes burning in heatwave-hit country.
Several explosions caused by the wildfires were heard by people from Tuesday onwards.
As the heat wave scorching the eastern Mediterranean intensified, temperatures reached 42 degrees Celsius in parts of the Greek capital.
Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the closing of schools, permanent or temporary, in Western Thrace violates the education rights of minority children.
Devastating fires reach as far north as Russia and have hit continental Europe amid a scorching heatwave.
Fanned by soaring temperatures and strong winds, this year's fire season has been significantly more destructive than the previous average.
The move reflects Serb opposition to the Bosnian law amendments imposed last week by Valentin Inzko, the outgoing High Representative in Bosnia. The amendments aimed to outlaw attempts at minimizing the scope of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica.
Fire scorches forests at base of Mount Penteli, north of capital Athens, threatening surrounding suburbs, authorities say, as winds complicate efforts to douse blazes.
Serb politicians in Bosnia deny the Srebrenica genocide, which was carried out by ethno-nationalist Serb militias. Instead, they have repeatedly played down the sufferings of Bosnians during the war.
Prosecutors allege ten defendants, including high-rolling Italian financiers and ex-Vatican employees, engaged in various financial crimes, such as embezzlement, fraud and corruption.
The information was contained in two documents, a consolidated financial statement for 2020 for the Holy See and the first-ever public budget for the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See.
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