DUBLIN - Ireland will remove the rules of mandatory mask-wearing in indoor public facilities and on public transport starting from Feb. 28, said the Irish government on Tuesday, Feb. 22.
BRUSSELS – European Union leaders said Monday that the bloc will react with sanctions against those involved in Russia's recognition of eastern Ukraine's Lugansk and Donetsk regions as independent states.
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MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, Feb. 21, signed two decrees recognizing "the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR)" and "the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)" as independent and sovereign states.
KABUL - The Ministry of Public Health of the Afghan caretaker government launched a nationwide polio vaccination campaign on Monday, Feb. 21, the government said.
BRASILIA - The death toll rose to 176 from the heavy rains that caused landslides and floods last week in the municipality of Petropolis in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, the local fire department announced on Monday, Feb. 21.
ATHENS - The charred body of a man was recovered on Sunday, Feb. 20, in a truck on a ferry off the Greek island of Corfu, the local fire brigade announced.
