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COVID-19 certificate mandatory to enter Swiss bars, restaurants

COVID-19 certificate mandatory to enter Swiss bars, restaurants

-- 2021-09-08 21:58:13

People will need to show a COVID-status certificate to enter bars, restaurants and fitness centres in Switzerland from Monday, the government ordered, in a move to relieve pressure on hospitals that a...

Paris ramps up security as jihadist attacks trial starts

Paris ramps up security as jihadist attacks trial starts

-- 2021-09-08 16:25:26

Scores of police gathered around the Palais de Justice courthouse in central Paris early on Wednesday to protect the trial of 20 men suspected of involvement in a jihadist rampage across Paris on Nov...

Asia-Pacific Forum on conflict prevention, minorities' rights begins Thursday

Asia-Pacific Forum on conflict prevention, minorities' rights begins Thursday

-- 2021-09-06 21:07:32

The Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on conflict prevention and the protection of the human rights of minorities, convened by the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues Fernand de Varennes, will take pla...

Italy to transfer its Afghanistan embassy to Qatar

Italy to transfer its Afghanistan embassy to Qatar

-- 2021-09-05 20:43:38

Italy plans to move its Afghan embassy to Doha, in Qatar, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Sunday, the latest indication of Western diplomats setting up permanently outside Afghanistan i...

EU won't 'rush into recognising' the Taliban

EU won't 'rush into recognising' the Taliban

-- 2021-09-02 10:21:37

The European Union will need to engage with the Taliban but it will not rush into formally recognising the Islamist militant group as the new rulers of Afghanistan, a senior European Union official sa...

‘1 in 7 children may have symptoms months after COVID-19 infection’

‘1 in 7 children may have symptoms months after COVID-19 infection’

-- 2021-09-01 21:28:02

As many as 1 in 7 children may have symptoms linked to the coronavirus months after testing positive for COVID-19, the authors of an English study on long COVID in adolescents said on Wednesday. Chil...

BBC reporter leaves Russia after credentials withdrawn

BBC reporter leaves Russia after credentials withdrawn

-- 2021-09-01 10:37:20

BBC journalist Sarah Rainsford left Russia on Tuesday after Moscow abruptly refused to extend her permission to work in what it said was a tit-for-tat row with Britain over the treatment of foreign me...

European Union ‘determined’ to prevent uncontrolled migration from Afghanistan

European Union ‘determined’ to prevent uncontrolled migration from Afghanistan

-- 2021-08-30 17:57:44

European Union interior ministers will gather for an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Brussels to discuss the fallout from the Afghanistan crisis. According to a draft statement, the minister will exp...

Repairs needed at Kabul airport before civilian flights can begin: Turkey

Repairs needed at Kabul airport before civilian flights can begin: Turkey

-- 2021-08-30 10:18:37

Repairs need to be made at Kabul airport before it can be opened to civilian flights, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday, as Ankara considers providing help to the Taliban to ope...

France, Britain to propose safe zone in Kabul, Macron says

France, Britain to propose safe zone in Kabul, Macron says

-- 2021-08-29 10:40:28

France and Britain will submit a resolution to an emergency United Nations meeting due Monday on Afghanistan proposing a safe zone in Kabul to try and protect people trying to leave the country, Frenc...

Last British civilian evacuation flight leaves Kabul

Last British civilian evacuation flight leaves Kabul

-- 2021-08-28 20:13:41

The last British flight evacuating civilians from Afghanistan has left Kabul, bringing to an end an operation that has airlifted almost 15,000 Afghan and British citizens in the two weeks since the Ta...

EU says it is investigating Moderna vaccine contamination incident

EU says it is investigating Moderna vaccine contamination incident

-- 2021-08-27 13:05:30

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Thursday it was investigating a contamination incident in the manufacturing of Moderna Covid-19 vaccines to assess whether there was an impact on EU supply,...

Covid-19 hospitalisations fall in Russia's Sputnik V stronghold

Covid-19 hospitalisations fall in Russia's Sputnik V stronghold

-- 2021-08-26 10:17:37

Doctor Sergei Pashkov is on the front line of a rare success story for Russia's torpid COVID-19 vaccination campaign: In the Belgorod region where he works, 50 per cent of adults have been fully vacci...

Boris Johnson facing corruption legal battle over ‘funds to Tory area’

Boris Johnson facing corruption legal battle over ‘funds to Tory area’

-- 2021-08-24 22:44:29

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a corruption legal battle over whether his party has been funnelling taxpayer cash into Tory areas to give it a political advantage, The Independent has repor...

Ukrainian evacuation plane hijacked In Kabul, diverted to Iran: Report

Ukrainian evacuation plane hijacked In Kabul, diverted to Iran: Report

-- 2021-08-24 15:15:54

A Ukrainian plane in Afghanistan to evacuate its citizens was hijacked and diverted to Iran, reports quoted a Ukraine Minister as saying, according to ndtv.com.The plane had reportedly arrived last we...

Climate activists target City of London's Guildhall

Climate activists target City of London's Guildhall

-- 2021-08-23 10:22:13

Climate change activists climbed the outside of the headquarters of the City of London's government on Sunday as they began two weeks of protests focused on the capital's financial district. About 20...

Turkey beefs up border measures to block potential Afghan migrant wave

Turkey beefs up border measures to block potential Afghan migrant wave

-- 2021-08-23 10:17:57

Afghans who manage to make the weeks-long journey through Iran on foot to the Turkish border face a three-metre high wall, ditches or barbed wire as Turkish authorities step up efforts to block any re...

Russia plans one-off payments to military to offset inflation

Russia plans one-off payments to military to offset inflation

-- 2021-08-23 10:07:09

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his government will make lump-sum payments to retirees and military personnel this year to help them cope with a stronger-than-expected spike in inflation, th...

UK calls G7 meeting on Tuesday to discuss Afghan crisis

UK calls G7 meeting on Tuesday to discuss Afghan crisis

-- 2021-08-22 20:25:49

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he had called a G7 leaders’ meeting on Tuesday to discuss the crisis in Afghanistan and urged the international community to find ways to prevent it fro...

Russia vows retaliation after new US sanctions

Russia vows retaliation after new US sanctions

-- 2021-08-22 10:22:43

Moscow pledged retaliatory measures after a new set of sanctions imposed by the United States on a Russian ship and two companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Russia's foreign ministry...

Greece erects fence at Turkey border amid concerns over surge of Afghan migrant

Greece erects fence at Turkey border amid concerns over surge of Afghan migrant

-- 2021-08-21 12:35:57

Greece has installed a 40km (25-mile) fence and surveillance system on its border with Turkey amid concern over a surge of migrants from Afghanistan. "We cannot wait, passively, for the possi...

Boris Johnson says Britain will work with Taliban if necessary

Boris Johnson says Britain will work with Taliban if necessary

-- 2021-08-21 11:12:39

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday Britain would work with the Taliban if necessary after the militants capture of Afghanistan, and defended his foreign minister who has come under fire for h...

52 migrants feared dead as boat capsizes near Spain’s Canary Islands

52 migrants feared dead as boat capsizes near Spain’s Canary Islands

-- 2021-08-20 19:49:29

More than 50 people are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Atlantic Ocean about 220 kilometres (135 miles) off Spain’s Canary Islands. According to Al Jazeera, Spain’s Maritime Resc...

NATO pledges to speed up evacuations from Afghanistan

NATO pledges to speed up evacuations from Afghanistan

REUTERS 2021-08-20 12:44:13

More than 18,000 people have been flown out of Kabul since the Taliban took over Afghanistan's capital, a NATO official said on Friday, pledging to redouble evacuation efforts as criticism of the West...

The Taliban could be different this time, Britain's army chief says

The Taliban could be different this time, Britain's army chief says

-- 2021-08-18 17:06:05

The world should give the Taliban the space to form a new government in Afghanistan and may discover that the insurgents cast as militants by the West for decades have become more reasonable, the head...

Turkey welcomes Taliban statements since their takeover in Afghanistan

Turkey welcomes Taliban statements since their takeover in Afghanistan

REUTERS 2021-08-17 18:59:51

Turkey is in talks with all parties in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, and views positively the messages the Islamist militants have sent since taking control of the country, Foreign Minister Mevl...

Mass shooting leaves six dead in UK's Plymouth

Mass shooting leaves six dead in UK's Plymouth

XINHUA 2021-08-13 22:30:50

Six people, including the suspect, were killed in a shooting on Thursday evening in the UK's Plymouth, a port city in Devon in southwest England. Devon and Cornwall Police tweeted that the law enforc...

How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe

How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe

Reuters 2021-08-12 16:48:11

As Klarna's billionaire founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski prepares to stage one of the biggest-ever European fintech company listings, a feast of capitalism, he credits an unlikely backer for his runa...

Helicopter with 16 people on board crashes in Russia

Helicopter with 16 people on board crashes in Russia

Reuters 2021-08-12 12:35:15

A Mi-8 helicopter with 16 people on board crashed in Russia's Far East region of Kamchatka early on Thursday, the emergency service said, and news agencies reported nine had been found alive and seven...

Russia says its Sputnik V shot around 83pc effective against Delta variant

Russia says its Sputnik V shot around 83pc effective against Delta variant

Reuters 2021-08-11 14:18:50

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 is around 83 per cent effective against the Delta variant of coronavirus, lower than previously thought, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Wednesday....