November 21, 2021

UN delegation visits refugee center on Belarusian-Polish border

A delegation from the office of the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has visited the logistics center on the Belarusian-Polish border where refugees are currently being sheltered. The Chief of the IOM Mission in Belarus said that they had met with

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Joint NATO-Baltic drills to start on Monday

The annual Winter Shield 2021 military exercise involving the Latvian and Lithuanian armed forces and NATO battle group present in Latvia will be running from November 22 until December 4.  The joint drills will take place at the Adazi training ground near Riga to train the units and master their defense capacities, as well as to develop cooperation and cohesion

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Countries tighten COVID-19 vaccination requirements

  – Austria has become the first Western democracy to resort to mandatory vaccination in response to a record-breaking surge in infections that has flooded its hospitals with critical COVID-19 patients.  Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced Friday that COVID-19 vaccination would be mandatory in the Alpine republic from February 2022. That makes Austria the first

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Japan wishes to strengthen relations with Vietnam

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will visit Japan next week, becoming the first foreign leader PM Kishida Fumio will host since he took office earlier last month, announced Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan Matsuno Hirokazu on November 19. Matsuno told the press conference that Vietnam is a partner of

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