Credit: CC0 Public Domain Wearing masks and gloves as a precaution against coronavirus is ineffective, unnecessary for the vast majority of people, and may even spread infections faster, experts said Tuesday. While near-total lockdowns have been imposed in Italy, Spain and now France, the World Health Organization’s advice has remained unchanged since the start of…
The upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe offers a unique opportunity for EU citizens to express their views on the direction of travel for the Union, particularly through the intermediary of civil society. A recently published LSE IDEAS report, ‘The Rise of Insurgent Europeanism’, discusses new visions of Europe emerging in civil society and…
Waves crash ashore during high tide in the Bay Of Bengal before Cyclone Yaas arrives in Digha, south of Kolkata, eastern India, on Tuesday. Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA-EFE May 25 (UPI) — Cyclone Yaas churned closer to northeastern India on Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of residents in the COVID-weary country fled their homes to find safety….
HONG KONG: Hong Kong may soon have to throw away millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses because they are approaching their expiry date and not enough people have signed up for the jabs, an official warned on Tuesday (May 25). Hong Kong is one of the few places in the world fortunate enough to have secured more…
(Image credit: Getty Images) The latest research suggests that the news can shape us in surprising ways – from our perception of risk to the content of our dreams to our chances of having a heart attack. Alison Holman was working on a fairly ordinary study of mental health across the United States. Then tragedy…
Ambassadors signed off plans to allow people who have received both Covid jabs to enter EU countries for non-essential trips such as holidays. Travellers walk with their luggage at Fiumicino Airport after Italy lifted quarantine restrictions for people arriving from the EU, Schengen zone countries (Photo: Reuters) The EU has backed plans to allow fully…
WASHINGTON, May 19 2021 (IPS) – Over the past decade, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from China have carved out a niche as owners and operators of electric utilities in South American countries through acquisitions of energy grids. As SOEs shift from their previous role as mostly builders to investors in large energy assets, policymakers in South America…
Some two months away, organizers of the Tokyo Games face mounting pressure to postpone yet again. More than 15,000 athletes from over 200 countries are expected to make their way to Japan in time for the Olympics starting July 24. But as the date nears, pressures on the host country to postpone the Tokyo Games for a…
Mask-wearing is compulsory indoors and outdoors, and social gatherings are strictly limited. A local resident listens to a medical staff before queueing up for the COVID-19 virus testing at the Wanhua District in Taipei, Taiwan, May 19, 2021. -AFP The democratic island of Taiwan on Wednesday moved into a Level 3 coronavirus alert as a community outbreak…