Issued on: 27/11/2021 – 07:24 The US, Australia and Canada on Saturday joined the growing list of countries imposing travel restrictions from southern Africa after the WHO declared Omicron, a new Covid-19 strain first detected in South Africa, a “variant of concern”. The World Health Organization (WHO) said the new variant may spread more quickly than other […]
Iraq is sending more planes to repatriate about 800 migrants stranded on the Belarus-Poland border, adding to nearly a thousand already brought home, the Foreign Ministry said. Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Sahaf said on November 26 that two Iraqi Airways flights would bring back 861 migrants over the next 24 hours. The flights will […]
Issued on: 27/11/2021 – 00:18Modified: 27/11/2021 – 00:16 Geneva (AFP) – Next week’s World Trade Organization ministerial conference, the global trade body’s biggest gathering in four years, was postponed at the last minute Friday due to the new Omicron Covid-19 variant. The WTO hoped the four-day gathering in Geneva would breathe new life into the […]
A special U.S. envoy for election reform in Bosnia-Herzegovina has told RFE/RL’s Balkan Service ahead of a trip to the region that Washington sees “limited, targeted constitutional change” as a key aspect of a reform push ahead of elections next year. Bosnia has been in a protracted political crisis as its Serb entity threatens secession […]
Germany’s Deutsche Bahn sets up firm to strengthen China-Europe freight transport Deutsche Bahn’s subsidiary DB Cargo established a new company to strengthen rail freight transport between China and Europe, the German state-owned rail operator announced on Friday. “Climate-friendly and reliable goods transport by rail is becoming increasingly important for global supply chains,” Deutsche Bahn noted. […]
Issued on: 26/11/2021 – 21:46 The Dutch government on Friday ordered further restrictions including a nighttime closure of bars, restaurants and most stores to stem a record-breaking wave of COVID-19 cases that is threatening to overwhelm the country’s healthcare system. The surge in the Netherlands, the worst in Western Europe, came even though 85% of the adult […]
Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security (UKMK) has announced the arrest of 15 suspects in an alleged coup plot, just two days before elections in the country’s fourth major vote in a little over a year. The UKMK said the alleged plotters included lawmakers in the Jogorku Kenesh, the unicameral legislature, and former high-ranking officials […]
Issued on: 26/11/2021 – 16:37Modified: 26/11/2021 – 16:41 A Turkish court on Friday kept civil society leader Osman Kavala in jail despite Western pressure and the risk the case could further harm Ankara’s relations with Europe. The hearing in Istanbul was the first since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to expel 10 Western ambassadors who […]
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has repeated a warning that Russia has assembled combat-ready troops, tanks, and heavy military equipment near its border with Ukraine and cautioned Moscow that any force against its neighbor would incur “costs.” Reports of a Russian buildup of more than 90,000 troops recently prompted the United States and Germany to reiterate […]
New Delhi [India], November 26 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Travel is back in a big way and consumers are excited to make up for lost holidays over the past two years. With a steady rise in vaccination coverage across geographies, combined with the easing of restrictions across regions, travellers have embraced the spirit of travel wholeheartedly, especially […]