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[Ticker] '57 years' to fully-vaccinate low-income countries

EUobserver.com 

It will take low-income countries 57 years to have their populations fully-protected, if vaccination continues at the current rate (63,000 people a day), a new calculation from campaigners of the People's Vaccine Alliance revealed on Thursday. Of the 1.7 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines given globally, just 0.3 percent of COVID jabs have been delivered in low-income countries. G7 nations are vaccinating at a rate of 4,630,533 people per day.

[Ticker] EU paves way for Olympic tourism to Japan

EUobserver.com 

EU ambassadors have added Japan to a list of safe countries, with Australia, Israel, New Zealand, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand, for which member states are recommended to gradually lift pandemic travel restrictions, Reuters reports. Wednesday's decision, ahead of Japan's Olympic Games, left out UK tourists until at least mid-June, due to concerns over the Indian variant there. Britain also advises against travel to all EU states, except Portugal.

[Ticker] Europeans could pay more for visas under UK plan

EUobserver.com 

Citizens from most EU states might have to pay £55 (€64) more for UK work visas, as well as a £199 foreign worker "sponsorship" fee, if the UK goes ahead with plans to withdraw from the European Social Charter, a 1961 accord of 27 European states, granting discounts to healthcare, charity, and seasonal workers, such as fruit pickers, The Times reports, saying home secretary Priti Patel has "considered" the move.

[Ticker] Austrian far-right leader quits without backing successor

EUobserver.com 

The leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO), Norbert Hofer, has stepped down - but pointedly did not back his high-profile deputy and rival Herbert Kickl to succeed him, Reuters writes. Hofer, widely seen as the most presentable face of the anti-Islam and anti-immigration party which crashed out of government amid scandal two years ago, came close to winning Austria's presidential election in 2016 only to lose a re-run.

[Ticker] Spanish police seize 860kg of 'black' cocaine

EUobserver.com 

Spanish police have found hundreds of kilos of cocaine smuggled into Europe by disguising it as charcoal and ridding the drug of its telltale scent to render it undetectable to sniffer dogs, The Guardian reports. "The modus operandi involved using a complex chemical process to camouflage the drugs as charcoal ... carried out by the Mexican and Colombian cartels," the Spanish force said in a statement.

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[Ticker] EU and Bill Gates in €820m clean-tech partnership

EUobserver.com 

The European Commission and Bill Gates announced on Wednesday a partnership that aims to mobilise up to €820m between 2022 and 2023 to invest in clean technologies, such as green hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuels, direct air capture and long-duration energy storage. The partnership will target technologies with "a recognised potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions" which are currently too expensive to get to scale, the commission said in a statement.

Tourism sector invites Europeans to open up to travel again

Traveldailynews.com 

Multi-channel digital campaign will drive engagement across Europe to stimulate pent-up demand for travel. Campaign to be launched as ETC’s research shows that sentiment for travelling in Europe is warming up.

REST Inc. Receives Walmart Grant for Comfort Box Program

GantDaily.com 

CLEARFIELD – REST Inc., a newly-formed non-profit charitable organization in Clearfield County, recently received a Walmart Local Community Grant from the Clearfield Walmart.  This grant is in support of REST’s Comfort Box Program, a flagship program, which provides bundles of necessities for children being taken into emergency custody by kinship/grandparent caregivers.  These Comfort Boxes are […]

[Ticker] Iran's largest navy vessel sinks in Gulf after fire

EUobserver.com 

Iran's largest naval ship was on fire for 20 hours before it finally went down in the Gulf of Oman, Deutsche Welle writes. The cause of the fire, which according to a navy broke out in "one of the systems" of the vessel, was not immediately known. Photos of the fire on social media showed Iranian sailors evacuating on speedboats as smoke was seen coming from the vessel.


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