A Chinese city near the border with Russia is offering 100,000 yuan (13,500 euros) in exchange for any information leading to the location of a local covid-19 outbreak. China, where the new coronavirus was first identified nearly two years ago, has largely managed to control the epidemic by taking drastic measures: systematic tests, border closures, […]
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Vice President Harris is heading to Paris for a five-day visit
US Vice President Kamala Harris left today for Paris, where she will spend five days, hoping to consolidate reconciliation between the two countries after the crisis in their relationship due to a contract for the sale of submarines in Australia. Harris’ plane departed at 21:30 Washington time (today at 03:30 Greek time). The duration of […]
Turkey: Over 27,800 cases of coronavirus in 24 hours
The Turkish Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 27,824 cases of SARS-CoV-2 had been confirmed in the previous 24 hours after 357,832 tests, with the registered infections reaching 8,259,503. The deaths of another 187 patients with COVID-19 increased the death toll to 72,314 dead until yesterday, March 11, 2020, when the new coronavirus pandemic […]
Germany: Calls on EU to help stem flow from Belarus
Germany today called on the European Union to “take action” to help prevent a mass influx of migrants, as thousands of people have gathered on the Belarus-Poland border. “Poland or Germany cannot tackle the problem alone,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told the tabloid Bild newspaper, calling on the EU to form a “common front”. “We […]
Pegasus case: In Mexico, first arrest for espionage against a journalist
Mexican justice announced Monday that a man has been arrested on charges of spying on an Israeli journalist using a Pegasus-made software map at the heart of international espionage revelations. The man was arrested on November 1 in Queretaro (central Mexico) for illegal espionage and was sent to prison. According to Mexican media, this is […]
President Joe Biden’s apotheosis to Antikounbo: ‘You scored 50 points in Game 6’
The apotheosis of US President Joe Biden was witnessed by Giannis Antitokoumbo during his visit to the White House with the NBA champions in 2021, the Milwaukee Bucks. The President of the United States, during his short speech, was very relaxed and cheerful and spoke in very flattering words about Giannis’ family, but also what […]
Biden committed to Bartholomew for ‘open channels of communication with the Patriarchate’
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has shown personal interest in US President Joe Biden. The Primate of Orthodoxy left New York on Sunday afternoon for Istanbul. According to information from APE-MPE, the American President called the Ecumenical Patriarch late Monday night, local time in Turkey, to wish him incidents and to learn the latest news about his […]
Seibert: ‘The situation in hospitals is worse, where the vaccination rate is lower’
Government spokesman Stephen Seibert conveyed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s concern about the pandemic and called on everyone to “do what is necessary” to bring it under control. He also noted that “the situation is worse where the vaccination rate is lower” and warned that the more hospitals are burdened, the greater the possibility of postponing scheduled […]
France: Hospitals at one month high – Cases and deaths on the rise
The French health authorities announced today that the number of people being treated with Covid-19 has increased by 156 in the last 24 hours, the highest daily increase since August 23, reaching a one-month high of 6,865. The number of patients infected with the disease and admitted to the ICU has increased by 40 reaching […]
The Polish border guards close the border with Belarus
NATO today condemned as “unacceptable” the way in which Belarus “uses” immigration, pushing migrants to the borders of Poland, a member state of the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance, as tensions on the border between the two countries increase. . This afternoon, a spokesman for the Polish government said that at present 3,000-4,000 […]
