Maria Hernandez

US President Joe Biden will visit Surfside in Florida tomorrow, a week after a 12-story apartment building collapsed. Hundreds of rescuers continue to search the rubble, but hopes of finding survivors are dwindling. In the…

More than 3 billion corona vaccines have been administered worldwide so far, AFP news agency reports based on its own count. The pace at which people are pricked is accelerating. The last billion shots were taken within a month. …

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven is stepping down over a vote of no confidence passed last week. That motion led to the fall of his minority government. Löfven's Social Democratic Party may try to form a new coalition. If that…

KLM is abandoning a plan to allow ground staff part-timers to come to work for an extra day. The airline wanted to spread the hours of part-timers more over the whole week to hire fewer temporary workers and save up to 7.5 million euros.…

Meal deliverers who work for Deliveroo in the UK are self-employed. The British Court of Appeal has decided that in a case brought by the trade union IWGB. The ruling is good for Deliveroo because the self-employed deliverers are an…

Norway has issued new licenses for exploratory drilling for oil in the Arctic. It concerns three licenses for drilling in the Barents Sea and one for the Norwegian Sea. The Norwegian government has plans to extract more oil in the Arctic…

The pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech are allowed to use two more factories in Europe to produce their corona vaccine. This concerns an Allergopharma location near Hamburg in Germany and a Novartis branch near Basel in…

Up to 10,000 spectators are allowed in the stadiums for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The organizing committee has decided that. Only Japanese fans get access. It was previously announced that foreign spectators would not be admitted…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is calling on his state to prepare for both dialogue and confrontation with the US. It is Kim's first reaction to the election of US President Joe Biden. The announcement comes days after North Korea…

Negotiators from EU countries and the European Parliament have agreed on distributing an aid fund for fishermen and other victims of Brexit. The fund contains 5 billion euros, of which the Netherlands roughly counts on 810 million.…