"We have approximately 650 workers, 100 of them are currently on sick leave because of COVID and 70% of them are dealing with COVID-patients," hospital director Alexandra Pavlovičová said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for 'fundamental rethink' to protect the environment at the annual CDP Europe Awards 2021.

The piece, one of only seven such bowls known to exist in the world, will be up for auction in New York on March 17 as part of Sotheby’s Auction of Important Chinese Art.

Yusaku Maezawa and his guests could become the first lunar voyagers since the last Apollo mission in 1972.

Washington targeted seven mid-level and senior Russian officials along with more than a dozen government entities.

Parts of France are experiencing high levels of air pollution amid a storm bringing dust from the Sahara Desert over to the country.

Secondary schools were already closed due to the spread of the virus, but now all schools in so-called red zones will be shut.

The initiative comes amid growing frustration over delays in the EU's vaccine rollout.

Hospital officials believe there were 27 people in an SUV that struck a tractor-trailer in the agricultural southeastern corner of California.

The COVAX scheme has delivered millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine to African countries this week, but officials have admitted the scheme has gone slower than expected in certain areas.

"This is a triumph for the LGBT+ resistance movement in the most homophobic country of the European Union,'' the Love Does Not Exclude group said.

Portugal’s aviation regulator ANAC has rejected a request for prior appraisal of the construction of a second airport in the capitol.

A number of Egyptian asylum seekers - some facing life imprisonment in Egypt - are making a last-ditch attempt to avoid deportation following decisions made by Sweden’s asylum agency.

Elena Udrea, a former Romanian tourism minister, and Ioana Basescu, daughter of the former president, received prison sentences for money laundering.

Gorbachev, who is widely credited with ending the Cold War, was very popular in the West, but a much more polarising figure within Russia.

Living near the volcano is no easy task for locals, as they have to clear huge amounts of ash from the streets, and sometimes even run for cover.

"Right now the virus is very much in control," the WHO's head of emergencies programme stressed on Monday.

The girls were abducted from their boarding school by gunmen last Friday.

The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) and Syrian Archive are seeking a French criminal investigation into the August 2013 chemical weapons attacks on Douma and Eastern Ghouta.

Accounts with two strikes against them will be locked for 12 hours. Five strikes will get a user permanently banned from Twitter.

Michael Taylor and his son, Peter Taylor, will be tried on charges that they smuggled Ghosn out of the country in 2019.

The Moroccan landscape painted by Britain’s wartime leader was sold by Angelina Jolie at an auction for more than €9.5 million.

Tens of thousands of ethnic-Albanians, Serbs and other minorities disappeared during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo. Two decades later, thousands are still unaccounted for.

Dust from the Sahara is being blown over to France, bringing with it radiation left over from French nuclear weapons tests from the 1960s.

A number of MPs from Sarkozy's Les Republicains party have expressed their "unwavering support" for the former president on social media.

"Only the people can decide who will stay in power," said PM Nikol Pashinyan as rival protests took place in the Armenian capital.

Russia's communications regulator says Twitter has failed to remove more than 2,800 illegal pieces of content since 2017.

The 99-year-old is being moved in order to continue treatment for an infection, “as well as undertake testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition”.

Jan Egeland called on the nations that had fought in Yemen, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to join Europe and the United States in funding the humanitarian response.

A Swiss newspaper has apologised for publishing an "inappropriate and unsuitable" headline about the appointment of new WTO Director-General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

The Council of Europe has deplored Austria's "overall insufficient" progress in the fight against corruption in judicial and political circles.

"If the Crown Prince is not punished, it will forever signal that the main culprit can get away with murder which will endanger us all and be a strain on our humanity," Hatice Cengiz wrote on Monday.

Companies that sell refrigerators, washers, hairdryers, or TVs in the European Union will need to ensure those appliances can be repaired for up to 10 years.

The mysterious explosion struck the Israeli-owned MV Helios Ray, a Bahamian-flagged roll-on, roll-off vehicle cargo ship, as it was sailing out of the Middle East on its way to Singapore on Friday.

Netflix also won big with 'The Crown' and 'The Queen's Gambit' taking home the award in their respective categories.

Hiking across the Italian-French Alps, especially in the winter, is difficult even for migrants who have overcome other arduous obstacles along the way.

"I am limited in my freedom. Not to mention the kids. They can't go to school. Learning online? What future will they have?" one demonstrator in Hungary said.

The event so far at a Hyatt hotel in Orlando, Florida, has been a tribute to Trump and Trumpism, complete with a golden statue in his likeness.

Britons are advised to register for healthcare as residents in Spain and have until June 30, 2021 to change their driving licences to Spanish ones.

Public trust in the Chinese and Russian vaccines was far behind injections produced in the West and approved by the EU's medicines agency.

The unexplained blast has raised security concerns for shipping in the Gulf of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran.

The 47 now in detention were among 55 arrested in police raids last month in the largest use yet of the territory's new security law.

Suu Kyi, who was arrested on February 1 following the army coup, is now being prosecuted for violating a telecommunications law and for "inciting public disorder," lawyer Nay Tu said on Monday.

Johnson & Johnson hope to supply more than 100 million doses of its one-shot injection to the US by the end of June.

He urged all countries to issue public statements strongly condemning the Feb. 1 coup.

It came as several thousand people demonstrated on Saturday in Yerevan for the third day in a row, demanding the resignation of the prime minister.

Thousands of Russians, as well as some western diplomats, have marked the sixth anniversary of the assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.

Twenty departments in France and one northern province in Poland have had stricter measures enforced From this weekend to stem the spread of COVID-19 following localised infection surges.

The Pest County Rescue Research Service, which helps everyone from lost hikers to people under rubble after an earthquake, has seen a drop in donations.

Speaking in Paris, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called for a new summit with Russia, France and Germany on the ongoing conflict in the Donbas region.