White House assistant press secretary Kevin Munoz confirmed on Friday that “the US’ new travel policy that requires vaccination for foreign national travelers to the United States will begin on Nov 8.” In a Twitter post, Munoz said that “this announcement and date applies both to international air and land …
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The butchers will be eligible to apply for visas from the existing allocation in the Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme until the end of the year, the UK government said as it announced a package of measures to support the national pork industry. The new visas will be granted in addition …
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Jonathan and Diana Toebbe, of Annapolis, Maryland, were arrested in Jefferson County, West Virginia, by the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service on Saturday, according to a Justice Department press release. The pair are accused of selling “restricted data concerning the design of nuclear-powered warships” over the course of …
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“Six vaccines that are FDA authorized/approved or listed for emergency use by WHO will meet the criteria for travel to the US,” a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spokesperson told Reuters on Friday, though they declined to be named. Immunizations developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson …
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Speaking at a press conference in Moscow, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Iran wanted to have good relations with all its neighbors, but won’t hesitate to act accordingly, if a “certain nation” on its northern border doesn’t reciprocate this attitude. The official, who was in the Russian capital to meet his counterpart, …
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“We need to have people on the ground in Afghanistan, in addition to our humanitarian workers,” Borrell wrote in a blogpost on Sunday, without specifying who those “people” might be. “So, the question is not if we should have a minimal EU presence on which all member states agree, but …
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The Google-owned video platform deleted RT DE and Der Fehlende Part (DFP) channels on Tuesday, saying they attempted to circumvent a ‘community guidelines’ strike for ‘medical misinformation’ in four videos. Describing the move as “an act of unprecedented information aggression” and “obvious manifestation of censorship and suppression of freedom of …
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The modern EU bureaucracy may seem light years away from the rapacious colonial powers of olden Europe, but geopolitics seemingly still reigns in Brussels, with the fight this time over influence in the troubled West African nation of Mali. With Mali’s military-ruled government struggling to quell a wave of jihadism, …
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Speaking on Monday, White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeff Zients said the US will proceed to ease restrictions on inbound international travel from early November, when it will only let vaccinated foreign nationals enter the country. The new policy would replace the current patchwork of measures which restrict travel depending on …
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Kaag announced her resignation on Thursday, after the motion of censure was passed by the parliament. The motion targeted the whole cabinet, but named the foreign minister explicitly as having ultimate responsibility for the evacuation failures. The censure received broad support in parliament, backed not only by the opposition, but …
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