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Charity director Alexandra Oxacelay appeared on RTL Radio on Thursday to discuss the rising issues linked to poverty in Luxembourg.
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Charity director Alexandra Oxacelay appeared on RTL Radio on Thursday to discuss the rising issues linked to poverty in Luxembourg.

The government crisis cell confirmed that the concentration of fine particles in the air remained at a "low and stable level" following the wildfires in eastern Belgium earlier this week.
Motorists in Luxembourg will see the price of SP98 petrol increase on Friday, bringing it close to the cost of diesel.

The Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps was deployed several times on Wednesday evening and on Thursday morning.

At the end of July, swimming bans were issued for the upper part of Weiswampach lake, due to the presence of cyanobacteria – the Buerfelt and Rommwiss beaches at Upper Sûre Lake also banned swimming for the same reason from early August.

In May, four calf carcasses were discovered in the Oesling region of Luxembourg, prompting concerns over wolf attacks.

As of 31 July 2026, the National Employment Agency (ADEM) counted 19,943 resident jobseekers, around 1,547 more than the same period in 2025.

In the opening of RTL's Summer Interview series with party presidents, LSAP co-chair Maxime Miltgen sat down to weigh in on the aftermath of the tripartite deal, internal debates within her party, and the still-open question of who the LSAP's lead candidate will be at the 2028 elections.

In two rulings, the Court of Appeal has cleared notary Karine Reuter of four of five money-laundering charges in a case involving 2017 real estate transactions and offshore companies, reducing her fine from €100,000 to €15,000, while largely confirming a separate conviction over the 2021 sale of a house well below market value.

Kyndryl has told RTL that the 140 BIL employees due to transfer to the IT firm on 1 September will not be caught up in its planned personnel "rebalancing", after unions OGBL and LCGB denounced a "double betrayal" over the 24 Kyndryl staff set to be laid off just weeks before the BIL transfer takes effect.