China has been accused by Brussels of running disinformation campaigns inside the European Union, as the bloc set out a plan to tackle a “huge wave” of false facts about the coronavirus pandemic. The European commission said Russia and China were running “targeted influence operations and disinformation campaigns in the …

MEPs quizzed ECB President Christine Lagarde for the first time since the pandemic and the German constitutional court’s ruling on the ECB’s bondbuying programme. During the quarterly ‘Monetary Dialogue’ with Ms Lagarde on Monday, Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee MEPs focused almost exclusively on the ECB’s actions to dampen the …

Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug Donald Trump is taking to prevent Covid-19, has increased deaths in patients treated with it in hospitals around the world, a study has shown. A major study of the way hydroxychloroquine and its older version, chloroquine, have been used on six continents – without clinical trials …

One of the all-time saddest TV cancellations for horror fans came when NBC pulled the plug on the Bryan Fuller-created “Hannibal” after just three seasons back in 2015, leaving the fates of Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) quite literally hanging off a cliff. Fuller has been …

Former President Barack Obama has described Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic there as “an absolute chaotic disaster”. Obama said this in a conference call with former members of his administration, which was leaked. He added that the current administration appears to have a mindset of “what’s in it for …

The Greek government through its spokesman Stelios Petsas, fiercely rejected on Friday evening a recent report of the German magazine “Der Spiegel” according to which an illegal immigrant had been shot dead by Greek soldiers while attempting to cross the borders to Greece at the Evros river in the recent organized …

Mikhail Mishustin is temporarily stepping down as prime minister of the Russian Federation while he recovers from coronavirus, he told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. The 54-year-old suggested First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov – an economist and former Putin aide – serve as acting prime minister in his absence. …

The Greek Minister of Tourism estimated in his statements that this year’s tourism season will gradually restart before July.  Moreover, there will be the opportunity for extension of season till October or November, as in most islands of Greece the weather is still hot. The Minister mr Theoharis believes that …

Some beaches in Florida reopened Friday night, after Governor Ron DeSanits gave the green light as long as social distancing is put in place. Beaches in the north Florida counties of Duval, which includes Jacksonville, and St. John’s County opened beaches at 5 p.m. Friday, CBS Jacksonville affiliate WJAX reports. …

PARIS, April 15. /TASS/. French President Emmanuel Macron hopes that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will join his initiative on global ceasefire amid the coronavirus pandemic, he told Radio France Internationale Wednesday. “I discussed this with Putin initially, when I first proposed this initiative. I did not talk with him …