Early bird: Slovakia promised to supply Ukraine with military equipment. Germany is pushing to abandon the plan to end the sale of cars with combustion engines by 2035
Ukraine will receive five Božena demining machines and other equipment from Slovakia. The memorandum on the 14th aid package anticipates that Slovakia will provide engineering and mine clearance assistance to the defending country. Under pressure from companies operating in the automotive industry, the EU has promised to speed up the revision of its plan to ban cars with combustion engines from 2035. Germany supports this procedure.
Kaliňák announced a new aid package for Ukraine in Kyiv
Slovakia is preparing a new aid package for Ukraine, which includes providing engineering support and assistance with demining, wrote the server Ceskenoviny.cz. At the international forum of the defense industry, the Slovak Minister of Defense Robert Kaliňák made the announcement in Kyiv. According to him, this is the 14th package of Slovak support. The Ukrainian Minister of Defense Denys Shmyhal stated that Ukraine will get demining machines of Slovak production Božena and other non-lethal equipment and technology from Bratislava. The head of the Slovak Ministry of Defense also added that they are jointly defining potential projects to expand what is an "already quite complex defense cooperation" with his Ukrainian counterpart.
Merz wants the EU to abandon the ban on combustion engine cars from 2035
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he wants the EU to abandon plans to end the sale of combustion engine cars in 2035. He states that major German car manufacturers such as Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz express doubts about this twenty-seven goal in a situation, when they have a problem to create electric cars that would withstand competition from Chinese cars, such as BYD for example. German car manufacturers are struggling with declining sales, competition from China, and American tariffs. Many companies are therefore taking cost-cutting measures and have had to lay off, reminds CTK.
The Nobel Prize goes to a discovery that helps keep our immunity under control
Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries relating to what is known as peripheral immune tolerance, reported by the AP. Thanks to the work of Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi, Doctors better understand how the body keeps immunity under control without harming itself. The human body's immune system is the best defense against all microscopic threats that a person faces every day. However, the body must control this system. And that's what the so-called peripheral immune tolerance system is for, which prevents the immune system from damaging the body.
Taylor Swift's Album Achieves Sales Record
Taylor Swift's twelfth studio album titled The Life of a Showgirl sold 2.7 million copies in the United States during its fir days according to data from Luminate. The company specializes in data analysis in the music industry. The album was released on Friday. The Life of a Showgirl also became the second best-selling album at launch. Currently, the first place is held by Adele's album 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in the first week of 2015 in the USA, reported by agency AP.
Sources: Ceskenoviny.cz, AP
