Reading Time: < 1 minute MOSCOW (Reuters) – Azerbaijan said on Thursday that 2,783 of its soldiers were killed during its conflict with ethnic Armenian forces over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and that more than 100 of its troops were still missing. Azerbaijan had until now not disclosed any of its military losses in the conflict that erupted on
Reading Time: 3 minutes PARIS (Reuters) – France will ensure free COVID-19 vaccinations for all in its social security system and has earmarked some 1.5 billion euros ($1.82 billion) of next year’s social security budget to cover the cost, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday. Castex, who unveiled France’s vaccination strategy alongside several
Reading Time: < 1 minute COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) – German police on Thursday raided dozens of locations and confiscated more than 330 data carriers as they searched for child pornography belonging to 56 people charged with acquiring and storing the illegal material, a prosecutor said. The raids in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia were
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Reuters) – Over 1.5 million people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 with one death reported every nine seconds on a weekly average, as vaccinations are set to begin in December in a handful of developed nations. Half a million deaths occurred in just the last two months, indicating that the severity of the pandemic is
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Times says that Malta is expected to receive a first consignment of the Covid-19 vaccine in early January, as the European Medicines Agency has set a December 29 deadline to grant approval following detailed testing. Another story reports that the European Commission found Malta to be in breach of the Birds Directive with
Reading Time: < 1 minute In-Nazzjon reports that Covid-19 fatalities rose to 148 by Thursday after the death of another two infected men aged 64 and 74. Both victims were being treated for the disease at Mater Dei hospital. The paper says the Prime Minister is defending Minister Ian Borg despite an admonishment by the courts over the way he had acquired
Reading Time: 2 minutes MELBOURNE (Reuters) – The health of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the world’s most extensive and spectacular coral reef ecosystem, is in a critical state and deteriorating as climate change warms up the waters in which it lies, an international conservation group said. The World Heritage-listed site off Australia’s northeastern
Reading Time: 4 minutes The UK has become the first country in the world to authorise the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for use, with the rollout due to start next week. Amid the excitement, Matt Hancock told an interviewer “It is absolutely clear that because we’ve left the EU I was able to change the law so that the UK alone could make this authorisation
Reading Time: < 1 minute L-Orizzont leads with a court decision throwing out a libel suit filed by actress and activist Pia Zammit against the paper over the publication of a photo of her in a Nazi theatre costume. The magistrate ruled that the case does not constitute defamation. Another story quotes General Workers Union secretary general Josef Bugeja
Reading Time: < 1 minute A politician named after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has been elected to a seat in Namibia. Adolf Hitler Uunona – representing the southern African country’s ruling SWAPO party – received 85 percent of the vote, but insists he has “nothing to do with” the ideologies of one of the most evil men in history. His constituency remains