The stock exchange in Japan ended with a small profit on Thursday. The promise of the Federal Reserve (Fed) to continue to support the US economy reassured investors. The Fed also kept interest rates and the ongoing bond-buying program untouched. The hopes for a Brexit deal in Europe and […]
US President-elect Joe Biden has called on Georgia residents to vote in three weeks’ time in crucial senatorial elections. On January 5 a second round will be held there for the two senate seats that the state has to forgive. Biden travelled to Atlanta on Tuesday to support the […]
A Japanese capsule that brought samples from an asteroid to Earth at the beginning of this month appears to have taken even more. There is also gas from space in the cargo hold. It is the first time that such gases have appeared on Earth in this way. The […]
The US government has earmarked $ 250 million for an information campaign to convince people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. A plan to involve celebrities to spread that message has been scrapped after the political disagreement, reports The New York Times. Many Americans are suspicious of a vaccine. […]
Airline KLM is temporarily not allowed to transport passengers to Hong Kong. The company confirmed reports about this in the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post. According to that newspaper, KLM is being punished under stringent corona rules in the city-state, and the suspension will last until December […]
Belarus is closed because of the corona crisis. The government announced that the land borders would be closed to Belarusian citizens later this month. An opposition news medium compared that crisis measure to a notorious Soviet-era barrier: the Iron Curtain. The decree published Wednesday evening states that the measures […]
The British public health regulator has warned that people who have been suffering from allergic reactions for a long time and very often should not take the new corona vaccine for the time being. Two of these people developed problems with the vaccine on Tuesday, says National Health Service […]
The UK will not receive 30 million doses of the vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca this year, but only 4 million. The British government’s vaccination task force said so on Monday, writes business newspaper The Financial Times. The production of those vaccines is not yet […]
Turkey has committed “too many provocations” in recent months to ease tensions between Turkey and the EU. EU Foreign Ministers are considering what “consequences” this should have, says German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. Germany is chairing the European Union for this six months but is still manoeuvring cautiously in […]
The US Congress wants to block the massive withdrawal of US military personnel from Germany planned by sitting President Donald Trump. That is stated in a bill for the US defence budget, on which the Democrats and Republicans in both houses in Congress reached an agreement on Thursday, writes […]
