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Luxembourg City ranked 36th out of 57 cities worldwide in the 2021 InterNations Expat City Ranking Photo: Shutterstock
WORLD

Luxembourg City expensive and boring, expat survey finds

Luxembourg City was among the lowest ranked cities for housing worldwide in an expat survey, with foreigners also finding there is little to do while they work long hours.

Cordula Schnuer • 12/01/2021
Bandana Rana during her visit to Luxembourg on 29 November Photo: Delano.lu
WORLD

Luxembourg “a frontrunner on gender equality globally”

Cordula Schnuer • 11/30/2021
People arriving from southern Africa will have to undergo testing and quarantine upon arrival in Luxembourg from Saturday Library photo: Anthony Dehez
WORLD

Luxembourg imposes quarantine for southern Africa

Cordula Schnuer • 11/26/2021
Highly contagious and with multiple mutations, a potentially devastating new variant of covid-19 has scientists in South Africa worried. (Photo: Shutterstock)
WORLD

A new variant worries scientists

Jérémy Zabatta • 11/26/2021
Foreign affairs minister Jean Asselborn says Luxembourg not complicit in Egypt Papers’ scandal.  Jan Hanrion / Maison Moderne
WORLD

Government says unaware of Lux company role in Egypt civilian killings

Tracy Heindrichs • 11/24/2021
Apple has filed a lawsuit against Israeli spyware firm NSO, which has back office entities in Luxembourg Photo: Shutterstock
TECHNOLOGY

Apple sues NSO spyware firm over phone hacking

Cordula Schnuer • 11/24/2021
François Bausch, pictured here with Lieutenant General Mike Guetlein, Commander of US Space Force Space Systems Command, visited California to discuss future space-related projects in the defence and communication sectors.  Photo: Ministry of Defence
WORLD

Defence minister meets US Space Force

Delano.lu • 11/23/2021
Salwa Saedo (l.), Hala Safil (r.) and their interpreter and Yazda advocacy officer Vian Darwish (c.), pictured outside Luxembourg’s Chamber of Deputies Photo: Mike Zenari
WORLD

Yazidi women seek support from Luxembourg

Cordula Schnuer • 11/18/2021
Her Royal Highness, the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg announced the winner of the 2021 European Microfinance Award – Fonkoze – at the award ceremony. Screenshot from the hybrid event
WORLD

Haiti-based MFI Fonkoze wins 2021 European Microfinance Award

Abigail Okorodus • 11/18/2021
Amnesty International raises awareness on human rights’ breaches during worldwide campaigns.  Copyright (c) 2021 Robert Buchel/Shutterstock. No use without permission.
WORLD

Amnesty International celebrates 60th anniversary

Tracy Heindrichs • 11/18/2021
The grand duchy has allocated €1m to the direct compensation of victims of the Holocaust in and from Luxembourg. The distribution of the fund has now begun.  Photo: Shutterstock
WORLD

Luxembourg pays €5,000 to Holocaust survivors

Delano.lu • 11/16/2021
Alok Sharma (c.) at the closing plenary of Cop26 on 13 November Photo: UNFCC / Kiara Worth
WORLD

Cop26 “very important step forward”: Dieschbourg

Cordula Schnuer • 11/15/2021
During his meeting with cooperation and humanitarian action minister Franz Fayot (LSAP) the head of the UNHCR, Filippo Grandi signed a Strategic Partnership Framework covering the period 2022-2025. Photo: Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action
WORLD

Luxembourg to contribute €32m to UN refugees agency

Teodor Georgiev • 11/10/2021
Just as Luxembourg reopens its borders to fully vaccinated US visitors, the US places Luxembourg on the highest Covid risk list.  Photo: Paperjam
WORLD

Luxembourg added to US highest risk list

Tracy Heindrichs • 11/09/2021
Humanitarian action minister Franz Fayot and defence minister François Bausch took part in the mission which saw the material transported to Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou by an A400M military aircraft, piloted by a Luxembourg military pilot. Directorate of Defence
WORLD

Luxembourg sends 50 vaccine fridges to Burkina Faso

Teodor Georgiev • 11/09/2021
Vaccinated travellers can once again enter Luxembourg, the foreign affairs ministry said on 5 November Library photo: Anthony Dehez
TRAVEL

Luxembourg re-opens for US visitors

Delano.lu • 11/08/2021
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