Tonga receives first humanitarian aid to recover from volcano eruption and tsunami
In the Polynesian island nation of Tonga, which was recently hit by a powerful volcano eruption and a subsequent tsunami, the first planes…
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In Czechia, voluntary Covid-19 infection leads to folk singer’s death
A Czech folk vocalist has passed away after purposefully getting ill with Covid-19 at the age of 57. Hana Horká was not vaccinated…
US inmates take detention centre to court over Covid-19 treatment with horse drug
In the US, a number of inmates of a detention centre have engaged in legal action over allegedly receiving horse deworming drug Ivermectin,…
UK to send anti-armour weapons to Ukraine
The United Kingdom has announced it would supply anti-armour, defensive weapons to Ukraine for the latter to be able to defend itself in…
Tickets to Beijing Olympics not to be sold to general public
With the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics nearing, their organisers have dropped plans to have tickets to sporting events to the general public and…
Malta’s Roberta Metsola elected as European Parliament’s new president
The Prime Minister of Malta Roberta Metsola has been elected as the new President of the European Parliament. Metsola is Malta’s MEP representing…
World Bank projects slower global economic growth for 2022 and 2023
After speedy rebounding from the economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, the world economy would show a slower pace of…
Deltacron? Cyprus reports discovering a mix of coronavirus variants
In Cyprus, a biology professor at the University of Cyprus has announced the discovery of a strain of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 with omicron-like…
France requires Google and Facebook to simplify rejecting cookies with EUR 210m fine
US internet giants Google and Meta (Facebook) have been required by the French internet rights’ agency to pay fines totalling 210 million euros…
