Protests by truck drivers and opponents of safety measures during the pandemic spread beyond the Canadian capital over the weekend. The police changed their tactics - they apply street blocks and punish protesters with fines.more

Representatives of the US armed forces and intelligence services believe that Russia intends to conduct large military maneuvers with nuclear weapons this month to warn NATO not to intervene in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Financial Times reports.more

The tourist industry in the north of Italy, offering services related to winter holidays, is recovering from the crisis of a year ago, when the lifts and slopes were not opened at all. In Trentino (Trentino), the most visited by Poles, it is noted that they come prepared and respect the strict Italian anti-pandemic regulations.more

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NATO must be united in the face of Russian aggression, and all members of the Alliance must be fully protected from hostile actions by Russia, agreed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron in today's conversation.more

Iceland - one of the three countries in the world where whaling is still allowed - intends to end this practice by 2024. The reason is low demand, the Icelandic government informed yesterday.more

Countries in Europe have a unique opportunity to take control of the coronavirus and this opportunity cannot be missed - said the regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Europe, Dr. Hans Kluge.more

Hungarian carrier Wizz Air launched on Friday a new connection from Krakow to Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates. Flights will be operated twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays.more

In Italy, an important change to the regulations on the Covid-19 pass enters into force tomorrow for foreign tourists. Tourists, also from Poland, who, in the light of Italian regulations, have an invalid Green Pass, because more than six months have passed since the second dose of the vaccine or recovered, will be able to enter anywhere with the test result.more

The injunction to wear protective masks in the streets will no longer apply in Spain on Tuesday, the country's minister of health, Carolina Darias, announced today. This restriction was introduced in December 2021 due to the record number of daily coronavirus infections, exceeding 150,000.more

Almost one in two young Italians is harassed by their peers, almost 90 percent feel lonely, and nearly three-quarters feel unsafe on the Internet - these are the results of an Italian poll among people aged 14 to 26. Their analysis emphasizes that this is "psychological SOS".more

The US intelligence has uncovered a plan for an extensive Russian provocation, which involves fabricating an attack by alleged Ukrainian forces on Russia or the Russian-inhabited areas of Ukraine, filming this staging and using it as a pretext to attack Kiev, announced Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.more

The Omicron BA.2 subvariant has already been detected in five African countries - Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal and South Africa, World Health Organization (WHO) expert Dr Nicksy Gumede-Moeletsi reported yesterday. The new reports are very worrying because they indicate that the sub-variant is more difficult to detect than the "original" version of Omicron, BA.1, she added.more

"It is likely that by July we will be able to cancel the vaccine passport in France," said French Minister of Health Olivier Veran on BFMTV. "The condition is that the situation will not worsen," he added.more

Two-thirds of women aged 12-25 have been street bullied in the past two years, reports the Netherlands Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This is the first time the office has examined street bullying across the country.more

The Spanish government of Pedro Sanchez rejected the requests of the autonomous communities of the country to abolish the obligation to wear protective masks in the open air. The center-left cabinet maintains that loosening this restriction could threaten sanitary safety.more

The New Zealand government has announced a plan to gradually open its borders. Until October, the country's borders will remain closed to foreign tourists, with a few exceptions, the Reuters agency reports today.more

The Prime Minister of Sweden, Magdalena Andersson, announced the lifting of all applicable coronavirus restrictions on February 9. Will cease to apply, inter alia, covid certificates and assembly limits.more

US CNN President Jeff Zucker announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his position with immediate effect. He justified this by not revealing his close relations with an associate on the board of this station.more

The first-ever fully private astronaut flight to the International Space Station (ISS) has a four-person crew already completed and approved, the US space agency NASA announced.more

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby announced that he would send 3,000. US troops to Poland, Germany and Romania to support US allies in the face of the concentration of Russian troops around Ukraine. Kirby added that it was possible to further deploy US troops to Europe.more

According to a report by Transport & Environment (T&E), the Port of Rotterdam is the most polluting seaport in Europe and is responsible for annual carbon dioxide emissions of 13.7 million tonnes.more

In many countries, the wave of infections caused by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has not yet reached its peak and restrictions should not be lifted prematurely, WHO representatives warned today. The announcement of a victory over the Covid-19 pandemic is premature, added WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus himself.more

The sanitary services in Germany reported to the Institute of Robert Koch (RKI) 208,498 new cases of coronavirus infection - the highest number since the start of the pandemic. Nevertheless, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann maintains the prospect of easing pandemic restrictions in March.more

Poles are the most critical of Putin - 82 percent. respondents have a negative opinion about it, and only 10 percent. positive. On the other hand, the Serbs are the most pro-utin - 77 percent. respondents in this country had a positive opinion about him, and only 15 percent. negative.more