Could the mask — already seen by many scientists as the most effective shield against Covid-19 — have yet another benefit? Some researchers now believe that they expose wearers to smaller, less harmful doses of the disease which spark an immune response. This as yet
On January 11, the first coronavirus death was officially recorded in China. Eight months after the identification of the disease that appeared in Wuhan in December 2019, the world is on the brink of recording one million deaths. 1,000 deaths in the first month The
The European Commission is to propose a long-awaited overhaul of the European Union’s migration and asylum system on Wednesday, likely setting off an explosive debate over what is one of the bloc’s most politically sensitive issues. Bottlenecks The EU’s migration system has come under increasing
EU foreign ministers have agreed to sanction violators of the UN embargo on arms flowing into Libya, EU sources told dpa on Monday. Agreement on sanctions The measures target three companies from Turkey, Jordan and Kazakhstan, as well as two individuals from Libya, that provided
Large parts of Europe have geared up for broad new restrictions to stop the coronavirus as Israel became the first developed country to enforce a second nationwide shutdown, as infections worldwide topped the 30-million mark. Spain was Friday set to unveil a raft of restrictions
The first EU nation to surpass half a million coronavirus infections, Spain’s decision to pass management of the pandemic to its regions has politicised public health and hobbled its fight against Covid-19, experts say. When the virus reached the country in March, the central government
The world has lost nearly 100 million hectares of forests in two decades, marking a steady decline though at a slower pace than before, a UN agency reported Tuesday. The proportion of forest to total land area fell from 31.9 percent in 2000 to 31.2
The European Commission on Wednesday proposed plans to significantly toughen the EU’s emissions target, aiming to achieve at least a 55-per-cent cut in greenhouse gases by 2030. “Too much for some… This would be a significant step up from the current 40-per-cent target, based on
Just down the road from Belgrade’s historic city centre, gates open for trucks to pass to the banks of the Danube, where they dump raw sewage into Europe’s venerated river. It’s not a secret operation, but rather a business nobody likes to mention in the
The coronavirus has upended everyday life in the six months since the crisis was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). While our understanding of the new respiratory disease has steadily increased since it was first detected in China last year, what lies