France’s President Emmanuel Macron will host on Tuesday a Bastille Day ceremony scaled-down because of the coronavirus pandemic and will also address the French in a rare TV interview as fears grow over a potential second wave of infections, AFP reported.

The United Nations warns that the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 130 million more people into chronic hunger this year, news wires reported. The grim assessment was contained in the latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, an annual report released on Monday by the five UN agencies that produced it.

Unlike other museums thumped by the coronavirus pandemic, the Rodin Museum in Paris might have an ace up its sleeve to help see it through the crisis: It can sell limited-edition versions of the French sculptor’s masterpieces, AP reported.

With travel uncertain and the coronavirus still striking nations Dubai reopened for tourism on Tuesday, news wires reported. Strongly relying on for tourists, this city-state wants to begin coaxing people back to its beaches and its cavernous shopping malls. But all that depends on controlling a virus that the United Arab Emirates as a whole continues to fight.

Croatians will go to polls on Sunday to elects new parliament amid rising coronavirus cases, which is putting further pressure on ruling conservatives facing stiff opposition by their traditional centre-left rivals and a new nationalist party, which at the end could become kingmaker, news wires reported. Polls put the two biggest political parties neck-to-neck.

A nearly decade-long study of Chinese pigs has found a potentially dangerous new type of influenza virus that is capable of triggering a pandemic. The research, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes a flu strain that shares genes with the one that caused the 2009 swine flu (H1N1) pandemic.

The coronavirus crisis has caused a dramatic deterioration in the European public perception of the US and left many believing the EU had become "irrelevant", the new survey by the European Council for Foreign Relations (ECFR) shows. It says the pandemic has traumatised Europeans and left them "feeling alone and vulnerable". The survey studied the views of Europeans towards the EU and notably its response to the coronavirus crisis and the results did not make for positive reading, AFP reported.

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda will discuss health, security and development with the US President Donald Trump during a visit to Washington on Wednesday, his chief of staff told Polish public radio on Monday. “I can say there will be good news from Washington,” Krzysztof Szczerski said.

The EU, founded on democratic values and respect for human rights, will continue to play a leading role in guaranteeing the protection of refugees, a joint statement of the European Commission and the High Representative said on the occasion of World Refugee Day, 20 June.

German airline Lufthansa said on Thursday that it would have to cut 22,000 full-time jobs as it forecasts a muted recovery in demand for travel following the coronavirus pandemic, news wires reported. The group will operate about 100 less aircraft after the crisis, leading to "a total of 22,000 fewer full-time positions in the Lufthansa Group, half of them in Germany". The posts make up 16% of the Lufthansa Group's total workforce of 135,000.