Ireland has recorded a rapid recovery in the number of overseas passengers in February, following the country’s lifting of COVID-19 travel restrictions. A total of 787,300 overseas passengers arrived in Ireland in February, up over [Read More]
The Russian and Ukrainian delegations have arrived in Turkey’s largest city Istanbul on Monday for a fresh round of face-to-face peace talks, aiming to achieve substantial progress to end the crisis. The Russian delegation has [Read More]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday announced value-added tax (VAT) cuts on several products to fight inflation. The VAT cuts included mostly necessities, such as hygiene products and medical equipment, Erdogan said at a [Read More]
Canada men’s soccer team qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals for only the second time ever on Sunday evening with a 4-0 rout of Jamaica. The nation’s only previous appearance in the tournament was [Read More]
Australia’s national carrier Qantas announced on Monday that it would launch four new routes across its domestic network to boost travel connectivity between regional centers and capital cities. Three weekly return flights will operate on [Read More]
El Salvador declared on Sunday a state of emergency valid for 30 days due to a wave of homicides, as police said 62 murders were recorded on Saturday, the highest number reported in a single [Read More]
White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced on Sunday night that she had tested positive for COVID-19. Jean-Pierre said in a statement that she took a PCR test earlier in the day after [Read More]
India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 43,020,723 on Monday with 1,270 new cases registered during the past 24 hours across the South Asian country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data. A further 31 deaths due [Read More]
Forest fires, which broke out around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant due to hostilities, cover more than 10,000 hectares, Ukrainian Ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova said Sunday. “We have recorded 31 fires, which caused an increased level [Read More]
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC), won 19 out of the 28 national assembly seats contested in the parliamentary by-election held Saturday, state-run ZBC-TV reported Sunday night. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling [Read More]
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