J&J, which has vowed to sell the vaccine at cost, won approval Thursday from the European Union for its COVID-19 jab after receiving the green light earlier from regulators in the United States, Canada and South Africa.

As the European Union’s doors reopen one by one to the outside world for the first time since March 2020, tourists will discover a patchwork of systems instead of a single border-free leisure zone, because national governments have resisted surrendering control…

The EU has no unified COVID-19 tourism policy and national EU governments have the authority to decide whether they keep their borders open to U.S. tourists.

This means booster doses will be needed for those looking to travel to the bloc after the completion of nine months since their inoculations (second dose).

Russia Ukraine News Highlights | President Vladimir Putin put Russia's nuclear deterrent on high alert on Sunday in the face of a barrage of Western reprisals for his war on Ukraine, which said it had repelled Russian ground forces attacking its biggest cities.

Sandwiched between Russia and the European Union, Ukraine has been torn between its former Soviet master and the West -- of which it wants to be a part -- since its independence in 1991.