At the end of March, the Netherlands had 413,000 people on social assistance benefits. As a result, the number of people who used the safety net on a monthly basis increased by approximately one thousand. The applications for self-employed persons in particular increased. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics [...]

Senior officials have pledged that the European Union’s recovery plan will “do no harm” to the bloc’s landmark goals to tackle the climate crisis and threats to the natural [...]

The Bay of Bengal’s fiercest storm this century, super-cyclone Amphan, slammed into the coast of eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday afternoon, bringing heavy gales and the threat of deadly storm surges and [...]

The Norwegian State Investment Fund withdraws from companies that do not comply with the rules on coal mining. Companies that use coal are also blacklisted. One of the names is commodity trader Glencore, the state fund said on [...]

Donald Trump is effectively abandoning a public health strategy for the coronavirus pandemic and showing “clear willingness to trade lives for the Dow Jones”, critics say. Will Americans ever forgive Trump for his heartless lack of [...]

Output of the 19 countries in the eurozone slumped by a record 3.8% in the first three months of 2020 as the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic had a rapid and hefty impact on growth across [...]

The healthcare system in Belarus is being propped up by volunteers and crowdfunding campaigns as the country grapples with a coronavirus pandemic its president has been hesitant to admit [...]

In the global scramble for medical equipment and diagnostic kits to fight the coronavirus, Ireland has found an edge: [...]

British Airways is to suspend more than 30,000 staff, from cabin crew to ground staff, engineers and head office employees, until the end of May under the government furlough scheme for companies hit by the coronavirus [...]

Italy has extended its lockdown until 13 April but recorded its lowest death toll in more than a week, reinforcing indications that the coronavirus epidemic both there and in Spain may be reaching a [...]