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Ireland’s St. Patrick’s Day parade returns after three-year absence

February 7, 20221144 Views

Ireland will celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a parade through the streets of Dublin for the first time in three years next month - and organisers hope the green-festooned festivities will energise a tourism sector hammered by a tough lockdown regime. The March 17 public holiday, celebrated in towns and villages across the country, was one of the first big events to be cancelled in 2020, shortly before the economy was shutdown for the first time to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The government dropped almost all COVID-19 curbs last month, backed by one of Europe's highest uptake of booster vaccines. The remaining restrictions such as mask-wearing are set to end later this month. "Our national day sends the message out loud and clear – Ireland is open again for tourism an...

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Earlier flowering raises risks for ecosystem

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February 4, 2022788 Views

Study on UK but can be applied for all other areas if larger datasets are available Climate change is causing plants in the UK to flower a month earlier on average, which could have profound consequences for wildlife, agriculture and gardeners. Using a citizen science database with records going back to the mid-18th century, a research team led by the University of Cambridge has found that the effects of climate change are causing plants in the UK to flower one month earlier under recent global warming. The researchers based their analysis on more than 400,000 observations of 406 plant species from Nature’s Calendar, maintained by the Woodland Trust, and collated the first flowering dates with instrumental temperature measurements. FILE PHOTO: A wild flower meadow is pictured ...

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#Czech Back into Czech Republic

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February 2, 20221079 Views

With the way the last year has been, we are all looking forward to better days where we can pack our bags and go back to planning vacations and exploring the world a little more. But what inspires us to travel and explore a country? Is it the round the clock luxurious amenities or the breath-taking scenic beauty or the adrenaline adventure sports or the taste buds tickling food and traditions? If staying home all this while has reignited your wanderlust, then you’ll love this selection of activities to do in the Czech Republic. Well no matter what your travel preference is the Czech Republic is going to have you spoilt for choice. 1. Have you ‘Czeched’ out Czech’s UNESCO Heritage sites Did you know that there are less than a thousand heritage sites in the world and out of ...

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An airport threatens flamingo refuge

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February 1, 2022988 Views

Conservationists decry plan for Albania’s biggest airport Plans to build Albania's biggest airport could destroy one of Europe's most spectacular sanctuaries for giant birds, where the noise of trucks and excavators is already scaring away pelicans and flamingos, ornithologists say. Flamingos are seen at the Vjosa-Narte Protected area in Vlora, Albania, January 15, 2022. REUTERS/Florion Goga The picturesque Vjose-Narte lagoon in the shadow of Albania's Thunderbolt Mountains on the Adriatic Sea, is a crucial stop for flocks of birds on their annual migration between Europe and Africa. It was declared a protected nesting and migration area in 2004, and is home to 200 bird species. The government says a new airport on the lagoon will boost tourism along Albania's pristine Adriati...

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Jerusalem’s holy sites and West Bank carpeted in rare snow

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January 27, 2022524 Views

A rare heavy snowfall covered Jerusalem, some of northern Israel and hilly areas in the occupied West Bank overnight into Thursday, shutting down roads and schools. Worshippers had to trudge through inches of snow to reach the holy sites in Jerusalem's walled Old City, including the snow-capped Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall. A general view of Jerusalem after a snowstorm, as seen from the Mount of Olives, shows the Dome of the Rock, located in Jerusalem's Old City on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Heavy snow is rare in the city, so children went out into the streets to watch the flakes falling and hurl snowballs at each other. Abed Shabany, 39, took his two sons to play on a hill overl...

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Exploring animal instincts of Francis Bacon

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January 27, 20221044 Views

A new exhibition opening in London explores how Francis Bacon drew on photographs of animals, such as the scream of a chimpanzee, for his sometimes unsettling depictions of people. Irish-born Bacon was one of the most acclaimed artists of the 20th century, known for his idiosyncratic approach to the human figure. Staff members from the Royal Academy of Arts pose with “Triptych August”, 1972, and “Three Figures in a Room”, 1964 by Francis Bacon in London, Britain, January 25, 2022. REUTERS/Peter Cziborra The exhibition, at the Royal Academy of Arts, aims to show how he believed the line between humans and animals and their forms and instincts could be blurred. "He really fundamentally believed that beneath the very thin veneer of civilisation, we are ultimately all animals, we ...

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Your own CIA jail? Lithuania to sell secret U.S. ‘rendition’ site

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January 25, 2022949 Views

A huge steel barn outside Lithuania's capital, whose long corridor and windowless rooms with carpets and soundproof doors once served as a CIA detention centre, will soon go on sale. Washington's so-called "rendition programme", under which suspected Islamist militants from conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq were spirited to jails outside U.S. jurisdiction, remains shrouded in secrecy more than a decade after it ended. But the European Court of Human Rights has confirmed that the 10-room building, in snowy pine forest in the village of Antaviliai outside Vilnius, was used by the CIA to hold terrorist suspects from 2005-2006. Aerial view of a building used by CIA to house prisoners in Vilnius, Lithuania, January 20, 2022. REUTERS/Janis Laizans It was known as "Project No. 2" or ...

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Heavy snow disrupts life in Turkey, Greece

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January 25, 2022859 Views

Some Istanbul Airport flights resumed on Tuesday after nearly 24 hours of cancellations as heavy snowfall clogged roads and stranded thousands of people across Turkey and Greece. In Athens, thousands were evacuated from a motorway and took shelter at the city's airport after Monday's severe snowstorm. By Tuesday, dozens of cars were still covered in snow as ploughs tried to clear roads. In Istanbul, the airport, among the world's biggest, was under a thick blanket of snow with runways and planes covered. Nuruosmaniye Mosque and Grand Bazaar, known as the Covered Bazaar, in Eminonu district are seen during heavy snowfall in Istanbul, Turkey January 25, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas The snowfall began late last week and picked up over the past days in the city of 16 million people, ...

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Rutherford lands back in Belgium, finishes solo flight round the world

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January 21, 2022908 Views

Youngest woman to do this and first person the achieve the feat in a microlight plane A British-Belgian teenager became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world on Thursday and the first person to do so in a microlight plane after a five-month, five-continent odyssey in her Shark ultralight. Nineteen-year-old Zara Rutherford landed back at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in Belgium after flying 51,000 km (32,000 miles) over 52 nations since her Aug. 18 departure in the world's fastest microlight aircraft. Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford, 19, arrives at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport after a round-the-world trip in a light aircraft, becoming the youngest female pilot to circle the planet alone, in Wevelgem, Belgium, January 20, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Cheers and applau...

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Spain bets on tourism recovery in spring

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January 20, 20221179 Views

Spain expects tourism to bounce back in the spring after a slowdown caused by the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and for overall visitor numbers this year to be more than two-thirds of record 2019 levels, a senior government official said. "The 2022 expectations are good," Tourism Secretary Fernando Valdes said on the sidelines of Madrid's FITUR tourism congress. "What we have is a great desire to travel," he said. Spain was the world's second most visited country in 2019, with a record 80 million tourists visiting the country the year before the pandemic struck according to official figures. Tourism reached only a third of that number in 2021 as lockdowns and travel restrictions prevented a significant recovery, though that was still about 55% higher than in 2020. Rising vac...