French President Emmanuel Macron presented the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour to Germany’s outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday during her farewell visit to France. This visit by Merkel “comes to close years [Read More]
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 rocked Indonesia’s eastern province of Maluku on Thursday, the meteorology and geophysics agency said here. The quake jolted at 9:42 a.m. local time with the epicenter at 69 [Read More]
Domestic tourism in India has risen sharply over the past few months as the South Asian country with over 1.3 billion population eased travel restrictions after having struggled with the COVID-19 pandemic for over 1.5 [Read More]
The coronavirus infection rate in Italy is on the rise again. While data on hospitalizations and deaths from the virus remain low, indications are that the government will extend the national state of emergency and [Read More]
Ireland’s daily COVID-19 cases on Tuesday surpassed the 3,000 mark for the first time since mid-January of this year, official data showed. The Irish Department of Health said that a total of 3,726 new confirmed [Read More]
Prisons in the United States have been facing more severe staff shortages as officers quit in droves amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Associate Press (AP) has recently reported. “By failing to protect prisoners from COVID, [Read More]
Wearing a face mask will be mandatory again in public indoor places in the Netherlands as the government announced several new measures to fight COVID-19 amid rising infections over the past few weeks. Dutch Prime [Read More]
An Arizona-based environment group filed a notice Tuesday to U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), showing its intent to sue the federal government for its miscoundct in office [Read More]
World leaders on Monday called for concrete actions to tackle the challenges of climate change at the 26th United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP26). “This COP must be a moment of solidarity. [Read More]
Russia will adequately react to any foreign attempts to “break strategic parity,” President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. “Some of our foreign colleagues are not abandoning attempts to break this parity, including through the deployment [Read More]
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