BERLIN: Germany will lift its pandemic travel warning for most countries from July 1, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Friday, bringing back more normalcy as citizens are increasingly vaccinated against COVID-19. Countries recording infection rates of 50-200 cases per 100,000 people in seven days would no longer be deemed a “risk zone.” Restrictions however remain in place for
Source says army will exercise role assigned to it, with no end in sight to political impasse
France organizing conference ‘to mobilize support from international community for army’
Updated 12 June 2021
June 11, 2021 23:16
BEIRUT: France is organizing a virtual conference next Thursday “to mobilize support from the international community for the Lebanese army,” following an official visit to France from Lebanese Army Commander Gen. Joseph Aoun at the end of May.
Aoun met with French President Emmanuel Macron and discussed “providing urgent food and medical aid to the security forces in the hope of maintaining law and order.”
The US and Lebanon also held a conference at the end of May, with Washington renewing its commitment to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) by increasing its its military aid by $15 million, reaching a total of $120 million in the fiscal year 2021.
GENEVA: The G7’s plan to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will help combat the pandemic in poorer countries but will hardly end the drastic global imbalance in access to jabs. Vaccination rates in the world’s poorest nations are way behind the Group of Seven industrialized powers and other wealthy states. In terms of doses administered so far, the imbalance between the
JEDDAH: Saudi citizens were on Friday warned against travelling to Uganda amid a rise in the number of cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the east African nation. The Saudi Embassy in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, said the health crisis in the country had worsened and advised people from the Kingdom not to visit for the time being. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia on Friday
(Bloomberg) World powers and Iran will try reviving their landmark nuclear accord one last time before voters in the Islamic Republic head to the polls next week to elect a new president who’s likely to be less willing to make concessions to the West.