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Belgium to ask travellers from China for negative COVID-19 tests
Travellers from China will need a negative COVID-19 test certificate to enter from Sunday onwards, State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor announced on Thursday. The obligation will be valid until 31 January and will apply to all…
Dutch health minister asks Senate to reconvene amid China’s COVID wave
Health Minister Ernst Kuipers has called on the Senate to return from their break to reassess COVID-19 laws after China easer their own laws and an outbreak of infections ensued. Kuipers wants the Senate to sit down and deal with…
Spanish experts see no cause for alarm over China’s COVID-19 wave
Experts in immunology and epidemiology see no cause for alarm in the recent outbreak of COVID-19 in China, but countries should remain vigilant in the coming days, they warned. The best moment to properly analyse the situation is not now,…
McCarthy Reaches for Deal With Right as Speaker Fight Enters Fourth Day
The G.O.P. leader hoped a proposed agreement would sway a critical mass of defectors to support him. But no votes had yet moved, and it was unclear if he could pick up enough converts. Send any friend a story As…
Russia country profile
Russia – the largest country on earth – emerged from a decade of post-Soviet economic and political turmoil to seek to reassert itself as a world power. Income from vast natural resources, above all oil and gas, helped Russia overcome…
December rains caused €175 million worth of damage across Portugal
Heavy rains caused damages of at least €175 million in Lisbon, Portalegre, and Faro districts, according to the final and provisional calculations made by 21 municipalities. Between 7 and 14 December, several districts in mainland Portugal suffered flooding in homes…
Former Czech PM’s Stork’s Nest case enters final phase
The main trial in the EU subsidy fraud case involving former Prime Minister and current presidential candidate Andrej Babiš, – accused of falsely creating the impression that the Stork’s Nest company, which was connected to Babiš’s conglomerate Agrofert, met grant…
Former Slovak FM Matovič continues attacks on LGBTI+
Former Prime Minister and Finance Minister Igor Matovič shared an anti-trans post on Facebook, followed by a post in which he wrote we live in a “sick age, when sick is allegedly normal and normal is sick,” mentioning a third…
NATO-led peacekeepers dismantle last barricades in north Kosovo
The NATO-led international peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, KFOR, dismantled the last remaining roadblocks and barricades in the north of the country on Thursday, bringing a seeming end to weeks of closed roads and border crossing points with Serbia. The situation…