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President of Portugal Has Called a Quick Election

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Portugal’s president has stated that parliament would be dissolved and a snap election will be held on January 30.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa noted the national assembly’s rejection of the government’s draught budget for 2022, which is the first time in decades that this has happened. As Portugal seeks to recover from the pandemic and a “economic and social disaster,” he said the budget will be critical.

The early election comes after Prime Minister António Costa’s government had a period of relative political stability. Despite his Socialist Party’s lack of a majority in parliament, he has remained in power for the past six years. The Socialists forged agreements with far-left parties after the 2015 election to ensure the passage of critical legislation.

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WHO Warns of a New COVID Outbreak in 53 European and Central Asian Nations

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as many as 53 countries in Europe and Central Asia are facing a “real threat” of a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic in the coming weeks or are already dealing with a new wave of infections exacerbated by the more transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus.

“We are at a critical juncture in the pandemic’s return. “We are back in the epicenter of the pandemic, where we were a year ago,” WHO Europe Director Hans Kluge told reporters from the WHO’s Copenhagen headquarters. Case counts are nearing record levels again, according to Kluge, and the rate of transmission in the region, which spans as far east as the former Soviet countries of Central Asia, is “gravely concerning.”

According to WHO Europe, the region witnessed over 1.8 million new weekly Covid-19 cases, up around 6% from the preceding week, and 24,000 deaths in the same time period, up 12%.

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Poland Has Been Ordered to Pay €1 Million Each Day

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In a dispute over judicial reforms, the EU’s top court has ordered Poland to pay a daily fine of €1 million (£850,000). Poland was forced to suspend a contentious disciplinary chamber earlier this year but has failed to do so.

It’s the latest twist in a tumultuous relationship with the EU over moves perceived as undermining the independence of Polish courts. Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller quickly decried the harsh penalty as “blackmail.” Some fear that the worsening tension would jeopardise Poland’s EU membership.

When there is a dispute between Polish and EU law, Poland’s constitutional court declared earlier this month that Polish law takes precedence over EU law, angering European leaders by effectively rejecting the primacy of EU law.

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Ronald Koeman: Barcelona Fires Their Head Coach

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After 14 months in command at the Nou Camp, Ronald Koeman has been fired as Barcelona’s head coach. Barca has only 15 points from ten games in La Liga and has already lost twice in the Champions League group stage this season.

After losing against Rayo Vallecano on Wednesday, they are ninth in the table, six points behind the joint leaders. Barca had lost three of their last four games, including a Clasico loss to Real Madrid on Sunday. Last season, the 58-year-old former Netherlands, Everton, and Southampton manager could only lead the five-time European winners to third place in the league.

The club’s enormous financial issues, which culminated in Lionel Messi’s leave and subsequent move to Paris St-Germain in August, haven’t helped the Dutchman.

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Minimum wage will be raised to 9.50 pound an hour from April : UK

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The minimum wage in the UK will be raised to 9.50 pound an hour from April next year. Those over the age of 23 are eligible for this minimum wage. The current minimum wage is 8.91 pound per hour. This is going to be nine and a half pounds from April. At the current exchange rate, this is equivalent to an average of 1,000 Indian rupees.

Under the new increase, a full-time employee will receive a salary increase of 1,074 pound a year. Chancellor Rishi Sunak will make an official announcement in the budget to be presented in Parliament this week. The government is preparing for such a decision based on the recommendations of the Pay Commission and the Independent Advisers.

The decision will give a 6.6 per cent increase in salaries to those over 23 years of age. This increase will be a great boon for workers as the cost of living has risen by an average of 3.1 per cent. The government is making a decision to provide relief to those who are suffering in the employment sector due to Covid.

The minimum wage for 21- to 22-year-olds will rise from 8.36 an hour to 9.18 pound from April. Apprenticeship pay will increase from 4.30 to 4.81 pound per hour.

The minimum wage for 18- to 20-year-olds will be raised from 6.56 to 6.83 pound. There is also an increase for those under 18 years of age. Their salary, which was 4.62, will rise to 4.81 pound. The Chancellor will present the budget in Parliament on Wednesday morning.

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10-year-old on stage for pope’s hat; Pope gave the gift

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The world was amazed by the 10-year-old boy who ran on stage during the Pope’s event. During a weekly public meeting of the Pope, a child approached the Pope and expressed his desire for the Pope’s white hat, and Pope Francis praised the freedom and desire of the children.

The incident took place in the audience of Paul VI Hall. Papa grabbed the running boy with both hands and greeted him. When asked to sit next to him, the head of protocol, Monsignor Leonardo Sapianza, stood up and gave the boy his chair to the right of the pope. The boy then pointed to the white cap of the pope, known as Suketo, several times.

Applause and laughter erupted from the audience as the officers recognized the hint and handed the child a similar hat. As soon as he got the hat, the boy put the hat on his head and left the stage. This is a child with disabilities.

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COVID’s Nightmare in Russia Being Fueled by Vaccine Rejection

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An ambulance crew carries yet another Covid patient, an elderly man battling to breathe and barely alive, near the darkened entrance of Hospital Number One in the city of Vologda in Russia’s northwestern region.

The wards of the hospital are overflowing with the sick and dying. According to local doctors, 700 of the 750 patients at the hospital with Covid had not been vaccinated. Every day, lives are lost in this region, and this is just one of Russia’s numerous regions. Russia has been hit particularly hard by the Covid pandemic, which began in March 2020 and is currently facing a very dangerous fourth wave of the virus.

More than 1,000 individuals die per day in the United States, for a total of more than 220,000 deaths. These are unprecedented figures for Russia, making it Europe’s worst-affected country.

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World’s Largest Triceratops Skeleton Auctioned Off

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The fossilised remains of Big John, the world’s largest triceratops dinosaur, were auctioned off in the French capital. The skeleton sold for €6.65 million ($7.74 million; £5.6 million), a European record. 

Big John roamed modern-day South Dakota in the United States 66 million years ago, and his bones were discovered in 2014. The plant-eating triceratops was a Cretaceous behemoth with its massive collared skull and three horns. Big John’s skeleton was purchased by a private, unknown American collector and put on public display at the Drouot auction house in Paris last week.

Big John’s skeleton was discovered by palaeontologists, who were able to recover 60% of the dinosaur’s skeleton. Its 200 pieces were painstakingly built by specialists in Trieste, Italy, including the dinosaur’s 2m-wide skull. These bones make up an 8-meter-long, 3-meter-high skeleton.

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Bulgaria makes newly launched Covid 19 ‘Green Certificate’ mandatory

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On Tuesday Bulgaria launched its COVID-19 “Green Certificate” as a mandatory requirement to access at restaurants, theatres, cinemas, concert halls, gyms, clubs and shopping malls as the country faces a rise in coronavirus infections.

On Tuesday Health Minister Stoycho Katsarov explained that the new digital or paper health pass confirms that the person has been vaccinated, has recently recovered from COVID-19 or has tested negative.

He also said “The number of infected is growing, the number of deaths is also increasing, which forces us to take additional measures,” its also a warning that venues that do not follow the rules will be closed.

On the same day the Balkan country of 7 million reported 4,979 new COVID-19 cases and 214 coronavirus-related deaths, furthering the rise in new infections since the start of September.

As per the official data, Bulgaria has had the highest COVID-19 death rate in the 27-nation European Union in the past two weeks and 94% of those deaths were unvaccinated people.

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Outsider Peter Marki-Zay to compete against PM Viktor Orban

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Peter Marki-Zay, a political outcast with no party association, will compete against Prime Minister Viktor Orban one year from now for leadership of Hungary after on Sunday winning an opposition run-off primary.

Marki-Zay win a victory over leftist Klara Dobrev, who swore to help him at the top of a collusion of six resistance groups that, in the 2022 parliamentary political election, will offer to expel Orban after over 10 years in power.

“We can just win together,” Marki-Zay told a horde of cheering allies, joined by his wife and seven children. “Nobody can break the solidarity of the resistance.”

“This was a fight, however we need to win the conflict too,” he said, alluding to the following year’s voting form. He swore to connect divisions in the public eye, cinch down on defilement, and battle in what he called an “uneven playing field ” with most media claimed by financial specialists near Orban’s Fidesz party.

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