The European Parliament yesterday called on the European Union to create a special visa program for Afghan women who want to leave their country for fear of the Taliban, the EP official website informs.more

US President Joe Biden announced a new tripartite pact, AUKUS, with Australian and British leaders aimed at defense cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. As a result of the cooperation, Australia is to build nuclear-powered submarines based on American and British technology.more

Italy has become the first European country to make COVID-19 health passes mandatory for all workers. The Italian government approved a new measure on Thursday that makes digital vaccine certificates compulsory for both public and private sectors.more

Research on the efficacy of vaccination against COVID-19 does not support the idea of giving a third dose to the general public at this point. Vaccination is a powerful protection against severe disease for all major variants of the virus, the researchers say in The Lancet.more

Facebook and Google ran ads in the US for a drug that allegedly stops the effects of pills that cause miscarriage, according to a report by The Guardian on Wednesday, prepared by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-governmental organization combating online hatred.more

A 47-year-old consultant working for the truck manufacturer Scania and Volvo passenger cars was sentenced by a court in Gothenburg to three years in prison for espionage for Russia. It is the first judgment of this kind in 18 years in Sweden.more

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, committed "treason" if, as a new book reported, he secretly contacted China to head off a conflict while Trump was in office.more

Due to the population boom and staff shortages, hospitals increasingly have to refuse deliveries. "The situation is tragic. This year we had to refuse visits to pregnant patients sixteen times due to lack of space," warns gynecologist Ingrid Rijksen.more

Increasing the rate of vaccination against Covid-19, strengthening the economy, better cooperation between EU countries in the defense sector, greater involvement in the fight against climate change and solving the problem of illegal migration are some of the main challenges for the EU, mentioned in the speech by the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.more

A Polish tourist was sentenced by a Spanish court to two months in prison for repeatedly beating her husband from Germany. The acts of aggression took place in the resort of Playa del Ingles in the south of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands archipelago.more

Portugal has the highest percentage of the population fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in the world. To date, more than 80 percent have completed vaccinations. residents of the country - informed the General Directorate of Health (DGS) in Lisbon, which is part of the health ministry.more

Ten thousand years after woolly mammoths vanished from the face of the Earth, scientists are embarking on an ambitious project to bring the beasts back to the Arctic tundra.more

The Apple concern presented a new generation of its company phone, the iPhone 13. During the conference, the premieres of new versions of iPad tablets and the Apple Watch Series 7 smartwatch were also announced.more

The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, announced yesterday about the lifting of the 1.5-meter requirement, which was introduced in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic. From September 25, you will need to show your coronavirus vaccination certificate or negative test result in your country before entering a restaurant, cinema or theater.more

Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Hajbatullah Ahundzadeh and Afghan Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar have not appeared to the public for a month, and their current videos have not been released. There have been rumors that they are dead, reported the British daily The Guardian.more

From today, the obligation to vaccinate health care workers against the coronavirus comes into force. Unvaccinated persons may be suspended from duties. Yesterday, opponents of the order staged demonstrations against compulsory vaccinations.more

Less than 3.5 percent of 1.5 billion Africans have been vaccinated against Covid-19, far below the official 60% target. warned John Nkengasong, director of the African Center for Disease Control.more

Managing Rotterdam in the central Netherlands, Ahmed Aboutaleb has been elected World's Best Mayor 2021. Aboutaleb shares the World Mayor 2021 award with Philipp Rio, mayor of the French city of Grigny.more

More than a third of workers in Germany would like to continue working from home even after the pandemic ends. This is a big increase compared to the study at the beginning of the quarantine, informs the RND portal.more

The European Union has no option but to talk to Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers and Brussels will try to coordinate with member governments to organise a diplomatic presence in Kabul, the top EU diplomat said on Tuesday. more

Several hundred earthquakes up to magnitude 4 were recorded in the last 24 hours in the Canary Islands area. The island of Palma experienced the most tremors, as announced by the Spanish Geographical Institute (IGN).more

Average house price growth was more than twice as high in advanced economies than in developing countries, according to Knight Frank.more

Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report has found.more

According to some EU politicians, the Afghan crisis highlighted the need to strengthen the EU's defense capabilities, because in Kabul it had to rely on the Americans. The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, returned to the proposal to strengthen the EU's military response capacity - to create a special brigade.more

Same-sex marriage and civil partnerships should be recognized throughout the Union, the European Parliament announced in a resolution adopted today. MEPs voting in favor stressed that the EU should remove all obstacles LGBTIQ people face in exercising their fundamental rights.more