The European Centre for Disease Prevention said on Thursday the Omicron variant is expected to be detected in over half of all cases of Covid-19 in Europe within the next few months, Reuters reported. It is estimated that Omicron is likely to be more contagious than the current Delta variant. However, experts in the EU and abroad are still assessing Omicron's transmissibility and how effective vaccines are against it.
The Emalahleni local municipality in Mpumalanga has revealed that it owes Eskom over R5 billion for unpaid electricity.
Bennet has been a consistent opponent of the 2015 agreement the powers have been seeking to revive.
The German government decided on Thursday to bar non-vaccinated people from entering business other than essential grocery stores and pharmacies, Reuters reported. "We have understood that the situation is very serious and that we want to take further measures in addition to those already taken," chancellor Angela Merkel told a news conference. Legislation to make vaccination mandatory is expected to be adopted early next year, taking effect from February.
Max Verstappen could end up being crowned the new Formula One world champion over Lewis Hamilton at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this weekend.
Angel One jumped 3.79% to Rs 1,167.95 after the stock broker said its client base jumped 146% year-on-year to 7.32 million in November 2021 over November 2020.
Most reasonable people expect their government to use the money they pay in taxes judiciously in the community’s interests. When taxpayers have to keep financing failed mega-projects they need to ask hard questions of their political leaders. They also expect to be given credible answers. The privatisation of the management of three public hospitals in 2015 ranks as one of the most expensive projects ever undertaken by any government. It is also arguably the biggest failed public project. Between 2018 and the end of next year... Читать дальше...
The Malta Institute of Accountants has formally welcomed 222 new accountants as members within its ranks, following the completion of their studies through the avenues provided by the University of Malta and the ACCA throughout the 2020-21 academic year. Addressing the new graduates during the new members’ ceremony, a yearly highlight of the MIA calendar, the institute’s president David Delicata congratulated the new accountants on their achievement, auguring them an exciting and rewarding career... Читать дальше...
Asylum seekers have been sleeping in the streets, some for weeks, in the Belgian capital Brussels - as the government grapples over the lack of capacity to accommodate them despite months of debate over the issue.
Bulgaria has not given up on its historical claims to North Macedonia, which continue to be a condition for lifting its veto on Skopje. In talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday, Bulgarian President...
Y gwasanaethau brys yn gofyn i'r cyhoedd fod "gyda ni nid yn ein herbyn ni" rhwng nawr a'r Nadolig.
MEPs failed to convince member states to set concrete and legally-binding deadlines for phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies and other environmentally-harmful subsidies .
First Deputy Transport and Communications Minister Aleksei Lyakhnovich and Governor of Astrakhan Oblast Igor Babushkin signed the implementation plan of the current agreement at the meeting of the working group on cooperation.
EU energy ministers met on Thursday to debate spiking gas and electricity prices, and clashed over market reform - with some countries, led by Germany, opposing actions put forward by France and others.
A court ruling next year, in line with the opinion, would clear the way for the EU Commission to launch the mechanism against Poland and Hungary.
Omicron fears. Covid passes. Vaccination push.
When hospitals are full with COVID-19 patients, it will be up to the scoring system to decide who gets the intensive care unit or artificial lung ventilation, the health ministry has announced. In recent weeks, many doctors have been talking...
Objectively speaking, German politicians have earned a good report card for their management of the corona pandemic so far. Why then is there so much anger about the national coronavirus response?
Speaking at the Global Progressive Forum, former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta describes the victim-shaming of Italy and Spain during the financial crisis - and explains how a big bag of money from Brussels may be helping heal the wounds.
HARIPUR: As many as 2,098 nominees of political parties and independents are running for 1,083 seats of general councillors, peasants/workers, youth, women and minorities in village and neighbourhood councils of three tehsils of Haripur district.
Читать дальше...The research found that it is ‘vital’ that children with disabilities have equal access to early learning and school age care and education.
A 16-year-old teenager with autism who asked his parents to avoid court to spare his shame has admitted an attempt to stab a disabled girl in a horrific knife attack in a park earlier this year
The Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday set a new NBA record, but it’s one they no doubt wish went to someone else: Biggest ever loss.
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