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Finland bans e-scooters for children, requires licences for rental companies

17 Jun 2025

HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland introduced a ban on the use of electric scooters by children under the age of 15 on Tuesday, and scooter rental companies will now require municipal licences to continue offering their services. The legislation on so-called micromobility approved by parliament last month is part of a broader ramping up of regulations on …

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Pope Leo to escape Rome’s summer heat with July stay at Castel Gandolfo

17 Jun 2025

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -As temperatures in Rome swelter this month, reaching more than 35 degrees Celsius (95°F) under the hot Mediterranean sun, Pope Leo has decided to leave town. The pontiff will spend July 6 to 20 about an hour’s drive south in Castel Gandolfo, a small hamlet on Lake Albano, the …

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Kremlin says it sees that Israel does not want mediation efforts with Iran amid ‘galloping escalation’

17 Jun 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it saw that Israel did not want mediation efforts over its conflict with Iran, now in its fifth day amid what Moscow said was “galloping escalation”. Israel launched its air war with a surprise attack last week that has killed nearly the entire top echelon of Iran’s …

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Evacuees from Israel arrive in Slovakia and Czech Republic

17 Jun 2025

(Reuters) -Flights carrying evacuees from Israel have arrived in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, authorities said on Tuesday, putting the two countries among the first to bring citizens home to flee the conflict between Iran and Israel. Another Central European country, Poland, said on Tuesday that the evacuation of Poles from Israel was planned for …

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Man in Germany charged with serial rape after drugging victims

17 Jun 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) -German prosecutors have charged a 43-year-old Chinese national with 22 offences, including attempted murder and aggravated rape after drugging victims, in some cases involving women he knew, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The accused, who was not identified, is suspected of sedating women with sleeping pills and raping them in eight cases. Some victims …

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Trump says his G7 summit departure not linked to any Israel-Iran ceasefire offer

17 Jun 2025

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump said late on Monday his early departure from the Group of Seven nations summit has “nothing to do with” working on a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, denying comments by French President Emmanuel Macron who said the U.S. president made a ceasefire proposal. Macron “mistakenly said that I …

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Budapest mayor says city will organise Budapest Pride, circumventing Orban’s legislation

17 Jun 2025

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -The city of Budapest will organise Hungary’s Pride march by the LGBTQ community on June 28 as a municipal event celebrating freedom, Budapest’s liberal mayor said on Monday, in a move to circumvent a law that allows police to ban LGBTQ marches. Hungary’s parliament, in which Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s right-wing Fidesz Party …

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Polish liberal candidate’s team lodge protest over presidential election

17 Jun 2025

WARSAW (Reuters) -The campaign team of the defeated candidate in Poland’s presidential election lodged a protest over alleged voting irregularities, its head said late on Monday, part of a wave of complaints from supporters of liberal Rafal Trzaskowski. Trzaskowski, from the ruling Civic Coalition (KO), was narrowly defeated by nationalist Karol Nawrocki in the June …

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As Thames Water fights for survival, crumbling assets show challenge ahead

17 Jun 2025

By Sarah Young and Paul Sandle TWICKENHAM, England (Reuters) -Fifteen times a year, the sheer volume of waste water entering Thames Water’s Mogden sewage works in southwest London overwhelms its 90-year-old concrete tanks, forcing the utility to pump excrement into the River Thames. Hidden by woodland, the plant illustrates the crisis at Thames, which supplies …

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