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]
Another 40,077 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 9,097,311, according to official figures released Monday. The UK also reported a further 40 [Read More]
Oil prices advanced on Monday as traders are awaiting a key meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, collectively known as OPEC+. The West Texas Intermediate for December delivery added [Read More]
Uruguay on Monday reopened its borders to foreigners who have been fully vaccinated and can provide a negative COVID-19 PCR test, 20 months after barring entry due to the pandemic. “We are telling the world [Read More]
Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) announced on Tuesday that many restrictions for fully inoculated people would end three weeks earlier than previously intended, in response to the faster-than-expected rate of vaccination. Many of [Read More]
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