Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte intends to step down. The Italian head of government will formally resign on 26 January. "The Council of Ministers will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, 26 January, at 9:00 am, during which Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will inform his ministers of his wish to go to the Quirinal Palace and tender his resignation. Following this, Prime Minister Conte will go to the...

With the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and restrictive measures, the global economy shrank by 4.3% in 2020, according to the UN World Economic Situation and Prospects report. The crisis caused by the virus has been described as the worst in 90 years. "World GDP in 2020 fell by about 4.3%, which was the sharpest decline in output since the Great Depression. During the Great Recession of 2009,...

The Thai authorities will introduce a tourist fee of $10, according to Travel Off Path website. The idea of introducing such a fee has been discussed since 2016. The decision has not yet taken effect. "Thailand's Minister of Tourism and Sports Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn announced that each foreign visitor to the country would have to pay 300 Thai baht ($10). It also emerged that the fee should have...

India, the second most populous and coronavirus-infected country in the world, has begun a mass vaccination campaign. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the largest vaccination campaign in history, within which more than 300 million people, that is, one in five Indians, will be vaccinated in the coming months. Modi urged his fellow citizens to put aside prejudice and believe in the...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) was under pressure to certify coronavirus vaccines, in particular the American-German one from Pfizer and BioNTech, the French newspaper Le Monde claims, citing documents and correspondence leaked online. According to the newspaper, there were problems during the approval of the vaccine. For example, not all production sites were inspected and some necessary...

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted in favour of a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump a week before he formally stepped down as head of the White House. A total of 210 congressmen voted in favour and 190 were against. 33 members of the House did not vote. Among those who voted for impeachment were nine Republicans, Trump's fellow party members. Impeachment does not...

Check Point, a cybersecurity company, found more than 340 advertisements for coronavirus vaccines on the darknet. The scammers are asking between $250 and $1,000 for a vaccine shot, and they are also willing to accept bitcoins. Check Point found 34 sites offering to buy the COVID-19 vaccine in total, compared to eight in a similar survey in December, according to CNBC. Check Point decided to...

Italy is on the verge of a political crisis after one of the parties in the ruling coalition threatened to quit the government. This was reported by Bloomberg, citing officials who wished to remain anonymous. According to the publication, former prime minister of the country and leader of the centrist party Italia Viva Matteo Renzi may decide to withdraw two ministers who belong to his party...

Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Ford and Dow have joined banks in stopping donations to Democratic and Republican Party members amid the recent riots at the Capitol building in Washington. The companies want to review last week's events, Axios reported. Facebook is freezing all political donations and is starting to review its spending practices for such purposes, Facebook spokesman told Axios....