Russia has submitted to the World Health Organization (WHO) the information about the vaccine against COVID-19 and expects the WHO to soon add it on the vaccine list, Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev said on Tuesday

All emergency pollution control measures that have been in place for a week to reduce ozone emissions in the region of Ile-de-France have been lifted on Tuesday, according to a decree by the Paris Police Prefecture

The Great Pacific garbage patch of aggregated floating litter has expanded to the size compatible with that of France, Philippe Cousteau Jr., a grandson of renowned oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and his wife Ashlan Gorse Cousteau told Sputnik in an interview on Tuesday

The Federal Reserve's decisive action at the outset of the novel coronavirus outbreak enabled the smooth functioning of markets in the United States, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a document of its assessment of the US response to the pandemic

US and EU negotiators initiated talks on a new Privacy Shield agreement on trans-Atlantic data transfers following a court ruling striking down an existing protocol, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders said in a statement on Monday

The Monday arrest of media mogul Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong is a snapshot of how authorities intend to use the new national security law to stifle press freedom, a prominent rights group said on Monday

Vasily Polonsky, one of the journalists of Russia's independent Dozhd channel, also known as TV Rain, detained in Minsk, has described how he and his colleagues were treated by the Belarusian security forces during detention in Minsk

Czech Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek on Monday refuted allegations by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of Prague's involvement in protests in Belarus

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday expressed his condolences to those who lost their loved ones in a recent armed attack in a wildlife reserve in southwestern Niger