The European Commission disbursed another €500 million ($532 million) to Ukraine on Wednesday as part of a multi-billion package of aid loans.
Never before have so many journalists in the world been in prison for their work as this year, according to Reporters Without Borders‘ (RSF) Annual Press Freedom Review published on Wednesday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is optimistic that the global health emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic can be lifted in 2023.
Members of the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of removing Eva Kaili from her position as vice president after she was implicated in a corruption scandal that has rattled the EU institution.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the EU health authority ECDC have called for vigilance in the face of an increase in serious illnesses in children following Group A streptococcal infections, they said on Monday in a joint statement.
The Bavarian authorities have lifted the requirement that people using public transport wear protective face masks, more than two and a half years after the regulation was introduced to stem the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
At least 24 demonstrators are facing execution in Iran for joining protests critical of the authorities, according to a report published on Saturday.
Four Palestinian men were killed in a raid by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Thursday.