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The Buzz | Germany starts rolling out a digital EU vaccination pass
Germany yesterday started rolling out a digital vaccination pass that can be used across Europe as the continent gets ready for the key summer travel season. ... -
The Buzz | Malta customs seizes 740 kg of cocaine hidden among bananas
The customs department in Malta intercepted 740 kilograms of cocaine yesterday in a record-breaking drug seizure for the Mediterranean island nation, officials said. The drugs, with ... -
The Buzz | German military to ship surplus beer back from Afghanistan
The German military says it has found a solution for an unusual logistics problem its troops in Afghanistan face: a glut of beer. Defense Ministry spokeswoman ... -
The Buzz | ‘Get used to me’: Postmaster evokes Trump style in Biden era
Louis DeJoy is uninterested in the niceties of Washington. The wealthy longtime businessman with an outer borough New York accent prides himself as a problem solver ready ... -
The Buzz | Hungary: Plan to build Chinese university branch protested
Several thousand people rallied in Hungary’s capital Saturday against plans by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to host a Chinese university in Budapest. A strategic agreement that ... -
The Buzz | Buckingham Palace barred minorities from office jobs in ‘60s
Buckingham Palace barred ethnic minorities from office jobs during the 1960s, the Guardian newspaper reported yesterday, citing documents in Britain’s National Archives. The revelation, published on ... -
The Buzz | AstraZeneca starts deliveries of Thailand-made vaccines
AstraZeneca’s partner in Thailand yesterday began its first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines after concerns they were behind on their production schedules for the country and parts ... -
The Buzz | Heathrow airport opens terminal for high-risk travelers
London’s Heathrow Airport has reopened a terminal that was mothballed during the coronavirus pandemic to handle passengers now arriving from high-risk countries. Critics say the action ... -
The Buzz | NATO restricts headquarters access or Belarus officials
The NATO military alliance is restricting access to its headquarters for a group of Belarus officials in the wake of Minsk’s decision to divert a Ryanair ... -
The Buzz | More than 200 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada
The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous ... -
The Buzz | Production of another COVID-19 vaccine to begin in weeks
Production of another potential vaccine against COVID-19 will begin within weeks, its developers Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline said yesterday as they launched a large trial enrolling 35,000 ... -
The Buzz | Portugal backtracks on capital-focused vaccines
Portuguese authorities say they are speeding up their COVID-19 vaccination drive nationwide after prompting an outcry by saying inoculations would be accelerated only in the Lisbon ... -
The Buzz | Bitcoin slips below $38,000 in a retreat from Monday’s rally
Bitcoin traded lower yesterday as prices pulled back from a double-digit percentage rally, stoked by Elon Musk’s effort to bolster the token’s green credentials on Twitter. The largest ... -
The Buzz | Blinken off to Mideast to push peace talks after Gaza truce
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to the Middle East to press the Israelis, Palestinians and regional players to build on last week’s Gaza cease-fire by laying ... -
The Buzz | China’s top diplomat to visit Russia for strategic talks
China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, will visit Russia for the 16th strategic and security consultation between the two countries starting today, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign ... -
The Buzz | European Union declares vaccination campaign a success
A top European Union official is declaring the bloc’s COVID-19 vaccination drive a success after its much-criticized slow start. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of ... -
The Buzz | Biden raises cease-fire, civilian toll in call to Netanyahu
President Joe Biden expressed support for a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he ... -
The Buzz | China urges US to play constructive role in Gaza diplomacy
China yesterday renewed calls for the U.S. to play a constructive role in ending the conflict in Gaza and stop blocking efforts at the United Nations ... -
The Buzz | Police fire tear gas on banned Palestinian march in Paris
French riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons Saturday in Paris as protesters supporting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip defied a ban on marching ... -
The Buzz | Millions lose power after Taiwan power plant failure
An equipment failure caused an outage at a power plant in southern Taiwan yesterday, triggering rolling blackouts across the island affecting millions of people. The outage ... -
The Buzz | Germany drops testing requirement for vaccinated
The German government has agreed to let travelers who have been vaccinated or recovered from a COVID-19 infection avoid testing and quarantine when entering the country, ... -
The Buzz | German Catholics to bless gay unions despite Vatican ban
Germany’s powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering such blessings at services in about ... -
The Buzz | Street parties celebrate end of Spain’s state of emergency
Impromptu street celebrations erupted across Spain as the clock struck midnight on Saturday, when a six-month-long national state of emergency to contain the spread of coronavirus ... -
The Buzz | Anti-Olympic petition gains tens of thousands of signatures
An online petition calling for the Tokyo Olympics to be canceled has gained tens of thousands of signatures since being launched in Japan only days ago. ... -
The Buzz | Biden aims to vaccinate 70% of American adults by July 4
President Joe Biden set a new vaccination goal to deliver at least one shot to 70% of adult Americans by July Fourth as he tackles the ... -
The Buzz | Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are getting divorced
Bill and Melinda Gates said Monday that they are divorcing but would keep working together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest ... -
The Buzz | Philippines extends virus lockdown to mid-May
The Philippines is extending an already monthlong lockdown by two weeks as the country’s worst coronavirus infection spike starts to ease but remains alarming. President Rodrigo ... -
The Buzz | Huawei says sales down 16.5% amid US sanctions
Embattled Chinese tech giant Huawei said first-quarter revenue fell after it sold its lower-priced Honor smartphone brand, but profitability improved. Sales declined 16.5% from a year ... -
The Buzz | Hong Kong finance executives defy virus with biggest bonuses
Hong Kong’s finance executives got the city’s biggest bonuses in 2020, defying a pandemic that saw more than a third of respondents miss out on their ... -
The Buzz | Prototype of first US dollar coins auctioned for $840,000
A piece of copper that was struck by the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia in 1794 and was a prototype for the fledgling nation’s money was auctioned off for ... -
The Buzz | Indonesia navy declares lost sub with 53 aboard sunk
Indonesia’s navy on Saturday declared its missing submarine had sunk and cracked open after finding items from the vessel over the past two days, apparently ending ... -
The Buzz | Missile from Syria lands in Israel, triggers Israel strike
A Syrian anti-aircraft missile landed in southern Israel yesterday, setting off air raid sirens near the country’s top-secret nuclear reactor, the Israeli military said. In response, ... -
The Buzz | Columbus police officer fatally shoots girl swinging knife
Columbus police shot and killed a teenage girl who swung at two other people with a knife yesterday (local time), according to bodycam footage from the ... -
The Buzz | Navalny’s doctors prevented from seeing him at prison clinic
Several doctors were prevented yesterday from seeing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prison hospital after his three-week hunger strike and prosecutors detailed a sweeping, ... -
The Buzz | European Union to purchase 100 million more vaccine doses
Pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its U.S. partner Pfizer say they will provide 100 million more doses of their coronavirus vaccine to the European Union this year. ...