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Europe's biggest Russian gas buyers were racing to find alternative fuel supplies on Monday and even looking at burning more coal to cope with reduced gas flows from Russia that threaten an energy crisis in winter if stores are not refilled.

After 21 years as a service agent at Air France, Karim Djeffal left his job during the COVID-19 pandemic to start his own job-coaching consultancy.

The monkeypox outbreak has spread to 30 countries in less than a month.

Several reports have suggested that the insect population is on a decline worldwide which could lead to a collapse of ecosystems.

A handful of eastern EU countries are concerned that the halt would not allow them enough time to adapt.

He cautioned that the optimistic scenario required countries to pursue vaccination campaigns and surveillance to detect new variants.

Because of the very fast spread of the variant across Europe, Kluge said emphasis ought to be on "minimising disruption of hospitals, schools and the economy."

The WHO's regional director for Europe Hans Kluge described a "new west-to-east tidal wave sweeping across" the region.

North Macedonia has shed 10 percent of its population in the last 20 years

The pipeline was finally completed in September but is waiting for the approval process to be completed before it can go online.

That historic move aims to put an end to corporations sheltering profits in low-tax haven countries, and would address the issue the DSTs aimed to solve.

Only six percent of people in lower and lower-middle income countries in Europe are fully vaccinated

Turkey's defence ministry released satellite images showing the extent of the damage, with forest areas turned black and smoke still visible.

Because a warmer atmosphere holds more water, climate change increases the risk and intensity of flooding from extreme rainfall.

Russia has reported 669 Covid deaths in the past 24 hours -- a pandemic high for the second day in a row, according to government figures.

At least five people were injured in the German-speaking Swiss cantons, including a cyclist who suffered head injuries from hailstones.

Throughout Europe, the lockdowns have made it harder to pick up on cases of domestic violence.

The coronavirus, which has killed more than 2.7 million people, has been spreading faster recently, with new infections up globally by 14 percent in the last week.

Several countries further tightened restrictions to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Pressure has been mounting on the European Union since Britain and the US started their immunisation programmes, using a vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.

The pandemic shows no signs of abating, especially in the United States, where more than 270,000 people have now lost their lives.

Lockdown fatigue is spreading even as governments unfurl new measures to save healthcare systems from collapse.

Figures additionally showed the only region where cases and deaths declined last week was Southeast Asia.

But for all the dire warnings, there was growing evidence that people were ignoring restrictions imposed by governments and minimizing the risk of infection.

Hopes that a treatment for the killer disease will be rolled out as soon as this year put a rocket under stocks such as airlines.

Pfizer said tests involving more than 40,000 people had provided results that were a "critical milestone" in the search for a vaccine.

On Monday, a group of leading scientists and experts will be named as transition advisers to help convert the Biden-Harris plan into reality from January 20.

Dubbed Task Force Takuba, the new joint deployment marks a coup for France, which has sought partners in its long fight against Islamist militants in Africa's vast Sahel region.

More than 9.4 million people have been infected and 233,000 have died in the United States since the disease was first detected in China late last year.

In the last two weeks, the Nordic country has recorded 45.7 new cases per 100,000 population -- the lowest rate in the EU according to the WHO.