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Britain, traditionally the UNFPA's largest contributor, will donate £23 million this year (€26.5 million) down from an expected commitment of £154 million (€177 million).

India has set a global record for daily new cases for seven of the past eight days.

“I can report to the nation: America is on the move again,” he said. “Turning peril into possibility. Crisis into opportunity. Setback into strength.”

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the Columbia command module in the historic 1969 moon landing mission, has died at the age of 90.

It comes as Beckham took part in a vaccine campaign as part of World Immunization Week.

The country's domestic security agency can now monitor people and groups within the so-called 'Querdenker' movement.

The two policemen had been suspended since last June, after their arrest.

On Monday evening, the Kosovan daily newspaper Koha Ditore published claims that Kosovo and Serbia would recognise each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty under an EU deal led by Germany and France.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has been the face of Belarus' opposition. But two new political movements could threaten that, fracturing those who want President Alexander Lukashenko to step aside.

Stevo Pendarovski said that if Europe leaves a void in the region, Russia and China will fill it.

Brussels police have confirmed they are investigating the incident.

The whale carcass has been beached on the southeast coast of the island since last week.

Johnson was asked several times by opposition leaders about who paid for €70,000 worth of work to his Downing Street flat.

French police are still searching for three more suspects who were not at home during the raids.

The most controversial measure concerns the so-called "algorithm" technique which allows the automated processing of connection data to detect threats.

In most Italian regions, restaurants and cafes have reopened for outdoor dining. But how do Italians feel about their newfound freedoms?

Latvian authorities said the building's operators had recently conducted unauthorised renovation work.

Three other left-wing officials have also received threatening letters containing bullets.

With the House out of session, many Republicans from this chamber are expected to skip the event, making it more likely that Biden will end up addressing a mostly friendly Democratic audience.

Shahid Jameel, a virologist and director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University, told Euronews the COVID crisis raging in the country was ultimately due to a "coming together of multiple factors" including that of vaccine hesitancy...

Critics have decried the reform as a theft of public funds and a takeover of Hungary's higher education system by Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Switzerland will hold a referendum on whether to push ahead with same-sex marriage.

It's the first attempt to restart talks since a push for a peace deal collapsed in 2017.

A suspected WWII hand grenade found in a Bavarian forest was actually a rubber sex toy, German police have said.

A ruling earlier this month overturned a law that had capped rents in a bid to make the German capital more affordable.

Albania’s prime minister Edi Rama claimed “the most beautiful victory” in parliamentary elections, which would make him the country’s first prime minister to win three terms.

A remotely-piloted boat laden with explosives targeted a Saudi port on Tuesday, according to reports from the state-run Saudi press agency.

The hearing "Algorithms and Amplification", scheduled to go before Congress on Tuesday, is the first entirely focused on social media algorithms and how they may amplify misinformation.

"The era of telling women to ‘just try again’ is over," scientists have said.

Two Spanish journalists and one Irish national were killed in Burkina Faso after an anti-poaching patrol was ambushed.

France has threatened the United Kingdom with "retaliatory measures" on financial services if the post-Brexit agreement on fisheries is not implemented.

Officials said the Love of Lesbian concert held at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona showed no signs of spreading coronavirus among the 5,000 spectators.

Prosecutors say the scheme stripped the Swiss government of more than €8 million.

Ioannis Lagos was among dozens of Golden Dawn members sentenced to prison in Greece last year, but as an elected MEP in the European Parliament he had parliamentary protection.

Ursula von der Leyen promises to defend women's rights after saying she felt "hurt" by a seating snub during a meeting with male leaders in Turkey earlier this month.

Malawi and South Sudan have said in recent days they will destroy some of their doses.

Karen forces said they have captured a Myanmar army base giving a boost for those fighting the military's takeover of the country's civilian government.

"Due to the lack of consistent and reliable data, Anvisa's Board of directors unanimously decided not to recommend the exceptional importation of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine," the watchdog said on Monday.

The US will export as many as 60 million doses in the coming months, the White House said ​Monday.

Three experts from the fields of global history, social science and economics give their insight into recovery after the pandemic, if and how it will change our lives and how coronavirus compares to previous fast-spreading diseases known to man.

Global vaccine programmes need protection to avoid mass outbreaks of diseases other than COVID-19, the World Health Organization has warned.

The removed tweets were published by journalists, opposing politicians, lawmakers as well as other prominent figures.

Defence expenditure was up by 4 per cent in Europe in the first year of the pandemic.

Experts believe India won't reach the peak of this COVID wave until the second week of May, by which time there could be more than half a million cases a day.

"The only party that can turn the climate on its head and lead to a restart of negotiations in Geneva is Turkey and President Erdogan," says expert Alexandros Zachariades.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's centre-right party won the most seats in this month's election but fell well short of a majority.

With in-home delivery systems, if the customer is not home, the recipient gives the post office worker permission to enter the property and leave the package.

The Cyprus conflict has been known as "the graveyard of diplomats". Will the new round of UN-mediated talks next week be any different?

The 1986 catastrophe didn't stop the growth of nuclear energy, but renewables are making the world less and less dependent on it.