The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) is calling on governments to take in more children, as most migrant reception centers on the Greek Aegean islands remain overcrowded despite the relocation of asylum seekers from the camps to mainland Greece amid the coronavirus threat, the organization's regional director and a special coordinator for the refugee and migrant response in Europe, told Sputnik

French carmaker Renault formalized on Wednesday a credit facility agreement with a group of French banks to secure a loan of up to 5 billion euros ($5.6 billion), with the French government guaranteeing up to 90 percent of the credit, to make up for the pandemic-enduced losses

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Iran's ambassador in Kiev, Manouchehr Moradi during a meeting with Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Yenin denied media reports about Tehran's alleged refusal to hand over to Kiev the flight recorders retrieved from a crashed Ukrainian passenger plane

The French authorities will prepare by early July a rescue strategy for small businesses and self-employers whose revenues have been severely affected by the coronavirus crisis, Secretary of State for Economy and Finance Agnes Pannier-Runacher told the France Inter broadcaster on Wednesday

Ukrainian state companies and moguls' $12 billion claims against Russia regarding property in Crimea contradict a bilateral agreement, signed in 1998, and therefore cannot be pursued in court, Mikhail Galperin, Russian deputy justice minister representing the country in the European Court of Human Rights, has said in an interview with Sputnik

The death toll from the coronavirus infection in the world topped 378,000, over 6.33 million cases of infection were detected, and over 2.7 million of those patients were cured, according to the US-based Johns Hopkins University, which tracks and compiles data from federal and local authorities, media and other sources