Masks, gloves and other disposable items litter Europe, warns the European Environment Agency. The increased production of such products has also resulted in an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.more

Face masks will no longer be mandatory outdoors as of this Monday (28 June) in Spain, but that will not mean that you can go out without a face covering.more

Australia's government has lashed out after a United Nations report claimed it had not done enough to protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate changemore

India has identified a new coronavirus variant 'of concern' - named locally as delta plus - and officials say nearly two dozen cases have already been detected in three states.more

We have discovered numerous operations against Polish entities as part of the Ghostwriter campaign - said the cybersecurity company Mandiant, confirming the previous arrangements of Polish services. Mandiant was the first to report on the operation, back in 2020.more

When Jakub protested in a history lesson against a lie in a French textbook on the complicity of Poles in the extermination of Jews in the Treblinka concentration camp, he was called in class "a descendant of the murderers", his parents betrayed. The teenager, however, managed to get a correction and apology from the publisher of the textbook.more

Holidaymakers worried about the Delta coronavirus variant destroying their vacation plans can cautiously relax - so long as Europe keeps pushing ahead on vaccinations and jumps on any outbreaks.more

The race between billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson to make suborbital space tourism a viable business is heating up.more

There is a shortage of chefs at Lake Balaton after the layoffs related to the coronavirus pandemic that even salary increases are not enough to hire them. Even the Vietnamese and Moguls are wanted, Hungarian media informs.more

Tourists, including foreign tourists, have returned to Venice, and with their influx, there has been a significant increase in behavior considered as hooligan there and deprived of respect for the historical and artistic heritage of the city.more

The Vatican opposed the bill on homophobia and transphobia, which the Italian Senate is working on, believing that it violates the concordat, reported the daily Corriere della Sera. This event is unprecedented in the history of mutual relations.more

In Australia, cases of blood clots in people vaccinated against Covid-19 with AstraZeneca caused many people to stop taking the second dose of the product, news.com.au reported.more

Polish citizens can travel to Spain on Monday without the need to present documents confirming that they do not suffer from Covid-19, the Polish embassy in Madrid said. As the Spanish authorities explain, as the number of new infections decreased, Poland was removed from the list of health risk countries.more

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump advocated shipping Americans who contracted Covid-19 abroad to Guantánamo Bay.more

A tornado swept through communities in heavily populated suburban Chicago, damaging more than 100 homes, toppling trees, knocking out power and causing multiple injuries, officials said.more

To get infected with the new Delta variant, it is enough to stay "no longer than a few seconds" in close proximity to the sick person, warns Harvard epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding.more

The UN rights chief called Monday for "concerted action" to help recover from the worst global deterioration of rights seen in decades, highlighting situations in China, Russia and Ethiopia among others.more

The European Commission and a network of national consumer protection institutions today asked three major credit card companies - Visa, Mastercard and American Express - to change the way they communicate about potentially unfavorable recurring contracts.more

Spain’s 17 regions have started to allow nightclubs to reopen for the first time in 15 months and eased closing times and restrictions for bars and restaurants. more

European Union foreign ministers will approve Monday a fresh set of sanctions against scores of officials in Belarus and prepare a series of measures aimed at hurting the country’s economy, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.more

Until the end of July, Bar Fondamental with branches in Paris and Bordeaux offers customers a free mug of beer, provided they show proof of vaccination against Covid-19.more

A group of Spanish scientists alerted about the potential dangers of introducing wisents into the Mediterranean ecosystem. Other scientists defend the need to preserve these endangered largest mammals in Europe. The dispute concerns mainly wisents imported from Poland.more

Italy becomes almost entirely a 'white zone' - the country's lowest-risk covid-19 category - with the nightly curfew no longer applying from Monday 21 June.more

Exposure to the rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, can protect against infection by the virus which causes COVID-19, Yale researchers have found.more

Deliveries of vaccine supplies under the WHO-backed Covax programme started in February, and most countries in Africa signed up and received vaccine doses. Only Tanzania, Burundi, Chad and Eritrea are yet to receive vaccines.more