The first country in the world to legalize most uses of marijuana seeks to hijack the business of illicit sellers and bolster its cannabis industry by allowing foreign visitors to buy weed. The administration of Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou…
News from destinations Forest fires in Spain: what you need to know for a vacation Spain is fighting forest fires in September 2021, Andalusia with the Costa del Sol holiday region is particularly affected. We show where the fire is…
“The last Norwegian plane from Kabul has just landed,” Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide told AFP by email, adding that around 20 people were on board. Including a plane that landed on Friday morning, more than 1,100 people have been…
Decorated swimmer Aurélie Rivard won Canada’s first gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. Rivard of St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Que., Repeated her title as the women’s S10 100-meter freestyle champion on Saturday. She ran to the finish in a remarkable 58.14 seconds,…
From the Great Wall to the scenic Kashmir Valley, tourist destinations in Asia are looking to domestic visitors to take them through the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic. As international travel is severely restricted, foreign tourists cannot enter many…
Such an extra portion of a vacation can’t hurt – especially after travel planning has been difficult again this year due to the pandemic. If you want to give yourself as many and long breaks as possible in 2022, you…
This feminine name is made up of the verb “streicheln”, meaning “to stroke” or “to stroke” – usually referring to an animal – and “Einheit”, meaning a single unit or, more precisely in this context, a session. Taken together, ‘Streicheleinheit’…
For 15 years, the murderer of Robert F. Kennedy was denied parole by a California parole board which maintained that Sirhan Sirhan had failed to show adequate remorse or understand the enormity of his crime which rocked the nation and…
U.S. intelligence agencies remain divided over the origins of the coronavirus but believe Chinese leaders were unaware of the virus before the pandemic began, according to the results released Friday of a review ordered by U.S. President Joe Biden. According…
Climate-friendly travel is all the rage. More and more people want to go on vacation by train rather than by plane or on a cruise ship. Because although the travel industry wants to gradually become climate neutral by 2050 with…