Germany is extending its national coronavirus lockdown by three weeks in an effort to reduce stubbornly high infection and death rates. Chancellor Angela Merkel and regional leaders also agreed to tighten some...
Two Polish men charged with planning Christchurch-style terror attack
Two Polish right-wing extremists have been charged with plotting a Christchurch-style terror attack to “prevent the Islamisation of Poland.”
President Aliyev declares Shusha Azerbaijan’s ‘cultural capital’
Shusha, known as “Karabakh’s pearl,” has been declared as Azerbaijan’s “cultural capital” by President Ilham Aliyev. The city was liberated by the Azerbaijani army after 28 years of...
Teachers rebuild classrooms in northern Syria
A group of volunteer teachers in northern Syria have built an underground school for about 300 displaced children from surrounding internally displaced camps.
COVID-19: Sir Keir Starmer says Labour will support the government, but that it acted too slowly
Sir Keir Starmer said Labour will support the government on increased coronavirus restrictions, but it had been too slow to act.
COVID-19: More than two million jabs a week needed to meet vaccination target, minister says
The UK will have to roll out more than two million coronavirus vaccines a week to meet its target of offering a jab to the top four priority groups by the middle of February, a minister has acknowledged. Vaccines...
EU’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout: Strategy in chaos as supplies run out
The #EU officially began giving out Pfizer-BioNTech #vaccination shots on Dec. 27, but the speed of each nation’s inoculation program has varied widely. France vaccinated around 500 people in the first week, while...