WHO Europe chief Hans Kluge stated Ebola risk is low for World Cup fans, urging normal travel. The US, however, is pressing other nations to impose travel restrictions from affected countries like Congo and Uganda.
The 2026 World Cup is marred by visa issues and strict US border controls affecting teams from Iran, Iraq, Somalia, and Senegal. Players and officials face prolonged interrogations, denied entry, and restrictive conditions, raising human rights concerns.
The WHO urged football fans to travel normally for the World Cup, stating the Ebola risk in Europe is low and there's no reason to change plans. This follows US pressure on European nations to implement travel bans on individuals from affected Central African countries, a move the WHO opposes.
China has imposed a one-year travel ban on four New Zealand lawmakers for visiting Taiwan, accusing them of violating the one-China principle. The Chinese embassy in Wellington stated the MPs crossed a "red line," while the NZ and Australian governments condemned the ban and plan a formal protest.
The article questions the EU's sovereignty, citing US travel bans against former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton and NGO leaders as evidence of foreign interference in European lawmaking concerning online hate speech.
The WHO is urging countries to lift blanket travel bans, advocating for exit screening instead. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that Ebola cases in the DRC are lower than feared, with 344 confirmed cases and 60 deaths as of June 1. Uganda has reported 15 confirmed cases and one death.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urges stronger international support for the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, citing delays and mistrust as key challenges, with 1,077 suspected cases and 246 deaths in DRC and 9 cases in Uganda.
YouTuber Tyler Oliveira was denied entry into Israel on May 12, 2026, due to alleged anti-Semitic content in his documentary about New Jersey's Jewish communities, leading to deportation and online controversy.
The sanctions — which include asset freezes and travel bans and will also target Hamas members — come amid growing international criticism of Israel’s settlement expansion and escalating violence in the occupied territories.
The much-loved football sticker album is to be discontinued after 2030. Guardian writers recall their thrills and frustrationsWith this summer’s World Cup already mired in controversy over politicisation, potential travel bans and rows over ticket prices, fans were dealt another piece of sad news this week: the tournament’s much-loved Panini sticker album will be discontinued after 2030.Guardian writers recall their Panini memories from years gone by. Continue reading...
Europe punished Russian billionaires over the war in Ukraine. It should do the same to those abetting an ecocidal regimeThe ecological disasters of the US-Israel war with Iran are already bad enough. The noxious smoke from bombed oil facilities, spills in the Gulf’s waters, the contamination of farmland and groundwater with toxic chemicals unleashed by explosions and their debris, the millions of additional tons of CO2 spewed into the atmosphere. But as bad as it is, the Iran war hides another conflict: the ecological war that Donald Trump’s US is waging against the rest of the world.When the EU and UK imposed individual sanctions, travel bans and asset seizures on Russian oligarchs, it wasn’t because most of them were individually responsible for Vladimir Putin’s colonial war of aggression against Ukraine. They were targeted because, as a class, they were viewed by many as inextricable from the apparatus of corruption and levers of power of the Russian state threatening global stability.Alexander Hurst writes for Guardian Europe from Paris. His memoir Generation Desperation is out now Continue reading...
Europe punished Russian billionaires over the war in Ukraine. It should do the same to those abetting an ecocidal regimeThe ecological disasters of the US-Israel war with Iran are already bad enough. The noxious smoke from bombed oil facilities, spills in the Gulf’s waters, the contamination of farmland and groundwater with toxic chemicals unleashed by explosions and their debris, the millions of additional tons of CO2 spewed into the atmosphere. But as bad as it is, the Iran war hides another conflict: the ecological war that Donald Trump’s US is waging against the rest of the world.When the EU and UK imposed individual sanctions, travel bans and asset seizures on Russian oligarchs, it wasn’t because most of them were individually responsible for Vladimir Putin’s colonial war of aggression against Ukraine. They were targeted because, as a class, they were viewed by many as inextricable from the apparatus of corruption and levers of power of the Russian state threatening global stability.Alexander Hurst writes for Guardian Europe from Paris. His memoir Generation Desperation is out now Continue reading...
