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Italy plans on holding a crisis meeting Thursday as pasta prices continue to rise. According to Reuters, the cost of pasta products soared 17.5 percent year-over-year in March, while Italian EU-harmonized index consumer prices rose 8.1 percent. The following month, the Italian National Institute of Statistics reported a 16.3 percent increase in pasta prices, compared to the […]
Snoop Dogg arrived in Scotland on Thursday to begin the European leg of his I Wanna Thank Me arena tour. The Long Beach rapper was welcomed to Scotland by a bagpiper who played Snoop his 1999 collaboration with Dr. Dre, “Still D.R.E.” The Death Row Records boss took to Instagram to share a video of […]
The mountain range-mimicking chocolate bar Toblerone will no longer be allowed to claim its “Swiss-made” status due to a change of location in production. Previously situated in Bern, parent company Mondelez International will move a portion of its production in Q3 of 2023 to the Slovakian capital of Bratislava. According to CNN, the triangle-shaped breakable delight will officially lose its well-known Matterhorn […]
North London drill star Headie One has just dropped a massively ambitious new project called No Borders: European Compilation Project. The set has been ruminating for some time now, gradually taking shape as he made his way across the continent, building relationships, investigating all the different scenes, and getting a feel for their respective takes on drill. We […]
A beloved walrus was euthanized on Sunday morning after the Norwegian government determined the 1,320-pound mammal posed a risk to humans, CNN reports. As reported by CNN, the news arrives after Norwegian officials warned the public to stay away from the walrus, named Freya, who became a national attraction in recent months as she traveled the country’s coastline, climbing […]
One person was killed and dozens others were injured this weekend after a stage collapsed at Medusa Festival in Valencia, Spain. According to CNN, the tragedy took place Saturday morning at 4:18 a.m. local time, when high winds caused a portion of the main stage to collapse. The incident resulted in the death of a 22-year-old man, and […]
A shooting at a shopping mall in Copenhagen, Denmark on Sunday afternoon left three people dead and four others in critical condition. NBC News reports a 22-year-old Danish man opened fire at a Field’s mall, killing a 17-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, both from Denmark, and a 47-year-old Russian man. Four other people were transported to a local […]
A 101-year-old German man has been sentenced to prison for serving at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II. The Washington Post reports the man, identified as Josef S. by German media, was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison after being convicted on over 3,500 counts of accessory to murder. The man, […]
A pair of Russian pranksters managed to pull a fast one on J.K. Rowling. As pointed out by The Hollywood Reporter, notorious comedy duo Vovan and Lexus recently tricked the Harry Potter author into believing she was on a Zoom call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The comedians—real names Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, respectively—impersonated the European leader while firing off questions […]
A team-building exercise in Switzerland did not work out as planned when 25 employees suffered burns after walking over a bed of coals that stretched several feet long, New York Post reports. At least 10 ambulances arrived at a private event on the Au peninsula on Lake Zurich Tuesday night to provide medical treatment, with 13 people transported to […]
