Donald Trump has admitted that his new Air Force One, an aircraft he received from Qatar last year, is being temporarily grounded for additional upgrades. According to Trump, the plane will need to be modified again within about a month to upgrade it “as much as possible.”
On Sunday, protests took place in Tirana for the fiftieth consecutive day against a controversial real estate project on the Albanian coast. The protesters are now not only demanding that the plans be halted, but are also calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama.
While he himself seemed to be carefree as he watched the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina in New York, Donald Trump’s forces struck Iran mercilessly not long after.
Tesla plans to ramp up production again at its factory in Grünheide near Berlin. The American manufacturer is seeing rising demand for its electric cars and therefore wants to build more vehicles this year, hire more people, and use the site to serve new markets.
Russia is increasingly returning to cash. Since the beginning of this year, 1.56 trillion rubles in cash has been put into circulation—the sharpest increase for that period in years, excluding the COVID-19 pandemic. This is reported by The Moscow Times and BBC News, based on figures from the Russian central bank.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is looking into whether the city’s police department can arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he attends the UN Summit in September. In an interview with The New York Times, Mamdani said he is discussing the matter with the city’s legal team.
Hungary will have a new president now that Tamás Sulyok has agreed to a constitutional amendment that ends his term in office. The signing paves the way for a sweeping political shake-up led by Prime Minister Péter Magyar and his Tisza party.
Ukraine set fire to two distribution centers belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, in a large-scale drone attack. The attack struck warehouses in the Tambov and Moscow regions and claimed the lives of at least eight people; dozens more were injured. According to Russian authorities, seven people were killed in Kotovsk, in the Tambov region, and one person was killed in Elektrostal, near Moscow.
Russia has once again heavily bombarded Ukraine with a large combination of missiles and drones, with Kyiv as the main target. According to Ukrainian authorities, this marks a record number of ballistic missiles in a single attack since the start of the full-scale war.
The proportion of Dutch students at conservatories has fallen sharply over the past twenty years. This year, only 22 percent of students are from the Netherlands, compared to 52 percent twenty years ago. This means that nearly eight out of ten students being trained as performing musicians in the Netherlands now come from abroad. This was reported by NOS.