Lockdowns, spiraling cases and a vaccine divide is framing the start of Europe's second pandemic winter, bringing chaos to eastern European countries and uncertainty to those in the West, CNN reported on Monday.
Despite the widescale availability of (...)
As a film crew and actors in Western garb prepared to rehearse a scene inside a wooden, chapel-like building on a desert movie ranch outside Santa Fe, assistant director Dave Halls stepped outside and grabbed a prop gun off a cart.
He walked back in (...)
Romania has recorded one of the highest per capita COVID-19 death rates, according to Our World In Data.
The EU member state has now registered 18.2 fatalities per one million of the population, second only to Saint Vincent and the (...)
Bulgarian activists have raised environmental concerns over a shipwreck containing dangerous nitrogen fertilizers.
The Vera SU cargo vessel -- containing more than 3,000 tons of nitrogen fertilizer -- is considered sunk off Bulgaria's northern (...)
Georgia goes to the polls for crucial local elections on Saturday amid aggravated political tensions the day after former president Mikheil Saakashvili was arrested hours after returning to the country from exile.
His arrest was announced by Prime (...)
Saudi Falcons Club has revealed some of the events to be held in conjunction with the International Saudi Falcon and Hunting Exhibition (ISFHE), which is scheduled to be organized by the club in its headquarters in Malham, northern Riyadh between (...)
The President of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid, lauded the world's embrace of online services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, in her high-level General Debate speech at the 76th United Nations General Assembly session.
Kaljulaid said (...)
A day after the 2016 US elections, Angela Merkel offered the newly elected president what observers described as a thinly-veiled warning: cooperation only "on the basis" of shared democratic values.
Just two weeks later, she announced plans to run (...)
شهدت مباراة ضمن التصفيات المؤهلة لنهائيات ديفلمبياد 2021 (حدث أولمبي يتنافس فيه الرياضيون الصم) بين منتخبي أوكرانيا وإيطاليا، اقتحام الملعب "ضيوف" غير مرغوب بهم.
وتوقفت المباراة في المرة الأولى عند الدقيقة 41، بعد ظهور كلبين داخل المستطيل الأخضر، (...)
President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party looks set for another big win in the country's parliamentary elections, despite a drop in support, BBC reported.
The party claimed victory a few hours after the polls closed on Sunday evening.
Putin's (...)
Despite the economic devastation wrought by COVID-19, the new technology sector continued to thrive and prosper last year, the UN's intellectual property agency said in a new report published on Monday.
According to the findings of the World (...)
Millions of Russians will cast their vote this weekend in a general election expected to bring little political change. Some 14 parties are fielding candidates for half of the 450 seats in the State Duma in an election scheduled to run until (...)
The Saudi Pavilion at the Defense and Security Equipment International Exhibition (DSEI) was inaugurated here Tuesday by General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI) Governor Eng. Ahmed Abdulaziz Al-Ohali. GAMI is an affiliate of the Ministry of (...)
The European Union Thursday released an updated list of epidemiologically-safe countries for which non-essential travel to the EU is allowed.
Uruguay was added to the EU's new list, but six countries were removed, namely Albania, Armenia, (...)
Belarusian political activist Maria Kolesnikova has been sentenced to 11 years in jail, key figures in the country's opposition movement have said.
Kolesnikova, 39, was tried in Belarus along with lawyer Maksim Znak who received a 10-year sentence, (...)
The European Union has recommended its 27 nations members reintroduce restrictions on tourists from the US because of rising coronavirus infections there.
The decision by the European Council to remove the US from a safe list of countries for (...)
More than 10,000 people are waiting at Kabul's airport to be evacuated, the US defense department said at a press conference on Wednesday, as Afghanistan evacuations continue with many people desperately trying to flee the country.
Europe and the (...)
Ukraine is celebrating 30 years of independence from the Soviet Union, amid tense relations with Russia.
Ukrainian Independence Day is celebrated on Aug. 24 each year, the date in 1991 that Ukrainian politicians declared independence days after a (...)
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has refuted an earlier statement that a Ukrainian aircraft was hijacked at Kabul airport during an evacuation of Afghans and other nationals seeking to flee the Taliban militant group.
Earlier Tuesday, Ukraine's Deputy (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged further peace talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine in her "farewell visit" to Kiev before Germany's September election.
"I would plead for another meeting at the presidential level or the political (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has sent a cable of congratulation to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on the anniversary of his country's Independence Day.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques wished the president constant (...)
The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT- Abu Dhabi) has issued the updated 'Green List' for travel to Abu Dhabi.
Below is the full list of 'green' countries, regions and territories that you can travel from if planning a trip to Abu (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is heading to Moscow on Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The visit comes during a low point in the relationship between the two countries, which continues to suffer from ongoing tensions over (...)
The European Union Thursday said developments in Afghanistan with return of Taliban to power would change geo-political balance of power in the region and expressed concern that the influence of China and Russia would increase in the (...)
Hundreds of firefighters in Greece remain on alert even though the wildfires that have devastated the country in recent weeks are under control and largely extinguished.
The fire danger in large parts of the country is still "high" to "very high," (...)
