Members of the Hanseatic League

The MP Yevgeny Fyodorov submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the annulment of the resolution of the State Council of the USSR "on the recognition of the independence of Lithuania". The explanation states that the decision is illegal because it was made by an unconstitutional body in violation of the requirements of several articles of the Constitution of the USSR.

More than 13,000 people were evacuated from the city of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, MIA reports. Evacuation is required because of old bombs found near residential buildings.

The bombs are believed to be from World War II and were dropped by Allied forces during the war. Citizens were ordered to leave their homes early this morning.

Turkey's youth and sports minister attended the European Sports and Culture Festival (ASKFEST), which kicked off on June 28 in Germany's northwestern city of Hamm.

Almost 50 Christian statues in Coesfeld, a small borough of North Rhine-Westphalia, have been vandalised. Police assume the wave of attacks in the area are motivated by religious ideology.

The city of Dortmund, of which some believed it would remain history after 1998, once with the shutting of the PHOENIX West steel works, part of Thyssen Krupp, the backbone of the local industry, has revived after implementing one of the amplest urban development programmes in Germany.