YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) – Armenia’s parliament approved a law Friday that would allow employers to fire workers who refuse to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test result.
BERLIN (AP) – German security officials said Friday that they have foiled a planned Islamist attack, after arresting a man in the northern city of Hamburg over the summer who had been trying to buy weapons and make explosives.
BERLIN (AP) – German lawmakers are debating a bill Friday that would require staff at hospitals and nursing homes to get vaccinated against the coronavirus or risk losing their jobs.
An inquiry into an alleged lockdown-breaching party at the offices of PM Johnson nearly a year ago will also look at two prior gatherings.
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie have announced the birth of a baby girl.
German police officers conducted dozens of raids across the country to crack down on human trafficking of workers from outside the EU.
MILAN (AP) – Italy is making life more uncomfortable for unvaccinated people this holiday season, excluding them from indoor restaurants, theatres, and museums starting Monday to reduce the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine sceptics to get their shots.
Scholz announced that an epidemiologist who has been a prominent voice of caution on coronavirus will be Germany’s new health minister.
Senior officials from the Slovak Republic are in Taiwan for talks on deepening ties with the island, the highest-level visit in many years.
(AFP) — Only a few times a year Ninos Josephides, a Greek Cypriot, is allowed to visit his home village in the Turkish-occupied part of divided Cyprus. But he can’t visit his house. It was destroyed long ago.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday as he arrived for a meeting with the head of the country’s Orthodox Church, evidence of the lingering distrust between some Orthodox and Catholics centuries after Christianity was cleaved in half.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – The leaders of right-wing populist parties gathered Saturday in Warsaw to discuss how they can work together to bring change to the European Union, which they accuse of acting like a super-state that is eroding the traditions and powers of the EU’s 27 member nations.
BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s health minister said Friday that more than 1 per cent of the population – almost a million people – are currently infected with the coronavirus, and called on citizens to get vaccinated if they haven’t done so yet.
BRUSSELS (AP) – The Belgian government has vowed to reinforce measures to contain the coronavirus even more with fresh measures to be decided Friday, possibly including more school closures and further reducing opening times of bars and restaurants.
COPENHAGEN (AP) – At least 50 people in and around Norway’s capital have been infected with the omicron coronavirus variant and the cases are connected to a Norwegian company’s Christmas party in an Oslo restaurant, officials said Thursday.
BERLIN (AP) — A World War II bomb exploded at a construction site next to a busy railway line in Munich on Wednesday, injuring four people, one of them seriously, German authorities said.
Germany’s highest court rejected complaints against curfews and other restrictions imposed by federal legislation earlier this year.
AMSTERDAM (AP) – The Netherlands moved into a tougher lockdown Sunday that was announced amid spiking infections even before the country recorded its first confirmed cases of the new, more highly transmissible omicron virus variant.
CALAIS, France (AP) – The EU’s border agency will dispatch a plane to monitor the shores of the English Channel for migrant activity after 27 people died when their overcrowded, inflatable boat sank en route to Britain, the deadliest migration
TOKYO (AP) – Portuguese health authorities said Monday they have identified 13 cases of omicron, the new coronavirus variant believed to be more contagious, among team members of a professional soccer club.
President Milos Zeman was separated from Prime Minister Fiala and the other officials and wheeled in by a totally covered aide.
(AFP) — An episode of The Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square is missing from the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong, adding to concerns about mainland China-style censorship in the city.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Lawmakers from all three Baltic states met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday in a sign of further cooperation between European Union nations and Taiwan.
On Sunday, voters in Switzerland gave clear backing to legislation that introduced a system with special COVID-19 certificates.
Top EU migration officials are holding an emergency meeting Sunday in the French port of Calais to find ways to fight migrant smuggling.
Smuggling organizations this year have netted £58 Million for helping migrants cross the English Channel in boats from France.
New restrictions were being slapped on travel as the world scurried Saturday to contain the new omicron variant of the coronavirus.
CALAIS, France (AP) — French fishing crews blocked French ports and ferry traffic across the English Channel on Friday to disrupt the flow of goods to the U.K., in a dispute over post-Brexit fishing licenses.
The UK announced that it was banning flights from South Africa and five other southern African countries effective at noon on Friday, and that anyone who had recently arrived from those countries would be asked to take a coronavirus test.
Poland´s Prime Minister said starting in December the government will cut tax on fuels and energy to counter inflation.
A frigate sailing off West African on an international anti-piracy mission killed four suspected pirates, and injured one.
The EU’s drug regulator authorized Pfizer´s coronavirus vaccine for use on children from 5 to 11 years old.
Czech President Milos Zeman was discharged Thursday from the Czech capital´s military hospital after his condition improved.
The World Health Organization said that corona cases jumped by 11% in Europe last week, the only region with an increase since mid-October.
The Dutch government introduced legislation to restrict access for unvaccinated people to bars, restaurants and museums.
A bus carrying North Macedonians home from a tourist trip to Istanbul crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria early Tuesday.
Germany’s health minister said it’s likely everyone in the country who isn’t vaccinated will have caught COVID-19 by the end of the winter.
Austria went into a nationwide lockdown early Monday in a desperate effort to contain spiraling coronavirus infections.
Ten of thousands of people demonstrated through Brussels on Sunday to protest lockdown restrictions imposed by the Belgian government.
Police in Croatia said that a German reporter was detained and fined for illegally entering the country from Bosnia with a group of migrants.
