5 Min Read
ATHENS (Reuters) - Before COVID-19, visits to Greece’s paper-strewn labour offices were a ordeal of queues and case files, often for basic matters that in less than a year have moved online as the pandemic upended old administrative routines.
An employee works at a Greek Manpower Employment Organisation (OAED) office in Kalamaki suburb near Athens, Greece, February 15, 2021. Picture taken February 15, 2021. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
“Essentially overnight, two thirds of the visits were no longer necessary,” said Spiros Protopsaltis, head of OAED, the Organization of Employment and Unemployment Insurance.
Crammed with thousands of folders and blue OAED registration cards spilling out onto desks and floor space, the corridors of the building where he spoke still offer a daunting vision of the challenge to overhauling public services in Greece.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is expanding her partnership with Apple Inc to produce dramas, children's series, animation and documentaries that will air on the tech giant's streaming service, the two said on Monday.
By Reuters Staff
3 Min Read
GIZA, Egypt (Reuters) - When a Sudanese couple started a charity to support fellow migrants in Egypt’s capital in 2017, the focus was on teaching children and vocational skills for adults.
Slideshow ( 5 images )
After economic pressures caused by the coronavirus pandemic put many out of work, Maysoun Abdelsalam and her husband Moataz Ibrahim pivoted to serving them food.
“We felt we were the support for each other, between us refugees. One person brings rice, one brings pasta,” said Abdelsalam.
The couple, who were working as a journalist and a lawyer, left Sudan because of political pressures and came to Egypt with their three children in 2017 hoping to find some security and stability.
By Reuters Staff
3 Min Read
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dance music lovers in Amsterdam were offered a short relief from COVID-19 lockdown on Saturday, treated to their first live show in over a year while serving as guinea pigs in a research project.
A total of 1,300 people were allowed at a carefully orchestrated test event in Amsterdam’s biggest music hall, the ZiggoDome, which in normal times has a capacity of up to 17,000.
Dancing to tunes delivered by Dutch DJs Sam Feldt, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano and others, the fans were followed in all their movements and contacts through a tag they were made to wear, in an effort to see how events might safely be opened up for the public again.