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Christina Marie Plante, who went missing in 1994 at the age of 13, has been found alive in Arizona. The girl vanished without a trace on her way to the stables in the mountain village of Star Valley, and her case remained unsolved for decades.
A new Apple museum has opened in Utrecht, celebrating the company’s 50-year history – from its early experiments in a garage to the iPhone, which has transformed the daily lives of millions of people. Among the main exhibits are the Apple I, the original Macintosh and other devices that shaped the development of personal computers.
On the morning of 3 April, the Swedish Coast Guard detained a vessel off the coast of Ystad that is suspected of being involved in an oil spill in the Baltic Sea. The vessel in question is the tanker Flora 1, which is on the EU sanctions list and bears the hallmarks of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet.
The Ministry of Finance has stated that estate agents in Ukraine are not required to report details of all property transactions worth more than 400,000 UAH to the State Financial Monitoring Service. The ministry emphasised that a different approach applies to them: they are only required to report suspicious financial transactions or attempts to carry them out.
The SBU’s counter-intelligence unit has stated that it foiled an attempt by Russian intelligence services to register Starlink satellite terminals on Ukrainian territory. The agency says this was aided by the “Burn the FSB Agent” information campaign and a call to the hotline from a resident of the Zhytomyr region.
Luxembourg tops the ranking of European countries in terms of net hourly wages. According to the latest Eurostat figures, workers there earn an average of €49.70 per hour after tax, whilst the lowest figures were recorded in Bulgaria, Romania and Latvia.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has publicly called on Donald Trump to stop making threats regarding Greenland following his latest comments that the US should “take over” the island for security reasons. Against this backdrop, Sweden has reaffirmed its full support for Denmark and Greenland.
Comet C/2026 A1 MAPS will reach perihelion – its closest point to the Sun – on 4 April, after which it will become clear whether it will survive this extreme close approach and become one of the brightest celestial events of April.
Authorities in Madagascar have announced that a plot to assassinate President Michael Randrianirina has been foiled. According to the public prosecutor’s office, 13 people are involved in the case, 11 of whom are already in custody, and the suspects include members of the military.
Ukraine has already begun preparations for the coming heating season and the restoration of its energy infrastructure following Russia’s attacks this winter. According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, work is already underway at 245 sites across the country, although the €90 billion European support package remains blocked.
Vladimir Kudritsky, former head of the National Energy Holding “Ukrenergo” and founder of Ne Gen, stated that the return of power cuts this spring is not due to a new cyberattack or cold weather, but to the NEURC’s decision on price caps for non-domestic consumers.
Despite the sanctions, Russia’s missile production remains dependent on imported chemical raw materials. Documents analysed by StateWatch show that European-produced cellulose acetate was channelled via intermediaries and civilian companies to the Perm Gunpowder Plant, which supplies fuel for the Russian Federation’s missile systems.
