More and more countries are introducing travel restrictions for southern Africa due to the corona variant that has been identified there. Earlier, the United Kingdom also restricted air traffic. The European Commission wants air traffic to and from southern Africa to be stopped immediately. The decision comes shortly after […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired the prison service head after videos of torture and rape emerged in prison last month. The malpractice took place at the Saratov prison in southwestern Russia. Aleksandr Kalashnikov was in charge of Russian prisons for two years until his resignation. He was under […]
Magdalena Andersson becomes Sweden’s first female Prime Minister. The parliament of the northern European country has cleared the way for her nomination. Finance Minister Andersson received the support of 117 MPs in a confidence vote. 57 abstained, and 174 voted against. To torpedo her appointment, a majority of MPs […]
Based on current developments, the World Health Organization (WHO) fears that another 700,000 people will die from Covid-19 in Europe before March. The death toll would thus rise from 1.5 to 2.2 million. Of the 53 countries in the European scope of the WHO, 49 are expected to be […]
The United States is also seen for the first time as a country where democracy is crumbling. Again, reference is made to Donald Trump, who openly contradicted the latest presidential election results. More and more countries are leaning towards an authoritarian regime, while the number of democratic countries where […]
Austria will introduce a general vaccination obligation on 1 February, a first in the European Union. In addition, the whole of Austria will go into lockdown from Monday to reverse the sharp increase in the number of corona infections. Only supermarkets, drugstores and pharmacies are allowed to remain open; […]
The German vaccination committee STIKO advises all vaccinated adults to give an extra shot with the corona vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna. The so-called booster shot is currently only available for the oldest residents of Germany and other risk groups. According to the committee, the booster should ensure that […]
Estonia has called up 1,700 reservists for an unannounced military exercise. Part of this is placing barbed wire along the 40-kilometre-long border with Russia. Unlike the two other Baltic EU countries Latvia and Lithuania, Estonia does not share a border with Belarus. The three countries warned the European Union […]
The passport office in the Afghan capital Kabul is temporarily closed due to the high demand for identity documents. The equipment for issuing biometric passports has failed under the pressure of many thousands of applications every day, the head of the office said. Demand for passports has exploded in […]
A taxi exploded in the English city of Liverpool around 11 a.m. local time on Sunday morning. A passenger on board died, and the driver was injured. Three arrests were made under UK terror law. In Liverpool – as in the rest of the United Kingdom – a two-minute […]
