Ignoring the threat of prosecution and the dangers posed by a surge of coronavirus cases, tens of thousands of women outraged by a court decision to ban nearly all abortions in Poland converged in Warsaw
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The southern French city of Nice was in mourning on Thursday as three people were stabbed to death in a suspected jihadist attack at a church. The police said the attacker had repeatedly shouted the phrase “Allahu Akbar”, or God is greatest, even after he had been detained by police.
Russian officials said that the mass killing of sea creatures off the coast of Kamchatka, in the Far East of Russia, was most likely caused by toxic algae and not man-made causes. But, Greenpeace said it was still too early to tell for sure.
In the final months of 2019, an unexpected series of events unleashed the perfect storm in Bolivia. After a contested election and mass protests,
While the current coronavirus pandemic continues to endanger millions of lives around the world, there was an enormous decline in CO2 emissions in the first half of 2020 — higher than during the 2008 financial crisis, the 1979 oil crisis, or even World War II.
Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission appears better prepared than EU member states to face the second wave of Covid-19, after learning the lessons of the chaotic and disorganized first days of the pandemic last March.
No other country has chosen this path. In Russia, where a vaccine has already been approved, no doses have yet been administered.
COVAX, formally known as The COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility, is a global collaboration aimed at speeding up the development, production and equitable distribution of new vaccines.
