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 […]
The stock market in Japan ended almost flat on Thursday. Investors took it easy after the rally in recent weeks. A disappointing job report from the American pay slip processor ADP caused some reticence. The positive developments around the corona vaccines and the hope for more stimulus measures actually […]
The corona vaccine from the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and the German biotechnologist BioNTech has been approved for use in the United Kingdom. The vaccine should be available from next week. The UK government agreed to a recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve […]
The Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip has tested positive for the coronavirus. 58-year-old Yahya Sinwar, one of the most influential figures in the radical Islamic organization, is doing well under the circumstances, according to his office. The Hamas chief belongs to a growing group of corona patients in […]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is outraged by a “disgusting, scandalous and heinous” tweet from a leading Chinese government spokesman and is demanding an apology from Beijing. Australian prosecutors are currently investigating 19 of the country’s military in connection with alleged war crimes committed by special forces in Afghanistan […]
