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Police in Belarus crack down on protesters, arrest dozens

Police in Belarus crack down on protesters, arrest dozens

-- 2020-10-11 20:06:01

Security forces in Belarus detained dozens of protesters on Sunday and used force, including water cannon and batons, to break up crowds demanding a new presidential election, TV footage showed, repor...

British PM to unveil new coronavirus rules

British PM to unveil new coronavirus rules

-- 2020-10-11 19:49:21

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce new measures to tackle a growing coronavirus crisis on Monday, moving to work more closely with local leaders from England's worst affected...

Europe unprepared as second virus wave hits

Europe unprepared as second virus wave hits

AP 2020-10-10 20:32:24

Europe's second wave of coronavirus infections has struck well before flu season even started, with intensive care wards filling up again and bars shutting down. Making matters worse, authorities say,...

Russia registers new all-time record of daily Covid cases

Russia registers new all-time record of daily Covid cases

-- 2020-10-10 14:40:50

Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 12,846 on Saturday, a new daily record since the start of the outbreak early this year, pushing the overall total number of infections to 1,285,084. The previ...

World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize

World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize

Reuters 2020-10-09 16:01:38

The United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme (WFP), won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace in areas affected by conflict. Th...

Britain’s Prince William launches global environment prize

Britain’s Prince William launches global environment prize

-- 2020-10-08 19:41:30

Britain’s Prince William launched a multi-million-pound environmental prize on Thursday, teaming up with celebrities including footballer Dani Alves and Alibaba founder Jack Ma to launch a prize...

UK considering more local curbs as virus spreads

UK considering more local curbs as virus spreads

Reuters 2020-10-08 14:53:39

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is considering additional local Covid-19 restrictions for parts of northern England as the second wave of the novel coronavirus accelerates, Hou...

Italy makes masks mandatory outdoors as coronavirus rebounds

Italy makes masks mandatory outdoors as coronavirus rebounds

-- 2020-10-08 13:09:01

Italy on Wednesday made it mandatory to wear face masks outdoors nationwide in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, as new infections jumped to the highest daily tally since April. The de...

Two scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for gene editing tool

Two scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for gene editing tool

-- 2020-10-07 16:47:10

Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. “Emmanue...

Britain rations remdesivir as COVID-19 hospitalisations rise

Britain rations remdesivir as COVID-19 hospitalisations rise

-- 2020-10-06 17:38:30

Britain has rationed its supplies of the antiviral drug remdesivir and is prioritising COVID-19 patients who need it most in the face of rising demand, Britain’s health ministry said on Tuesday,...

Black hole discoveries win 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics

Black hole discoveries win 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics

-- 2020-10-06 16:46:28

Britain’s Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and US scientist Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe...

Paris to close bars, raise coronavirus alert to maximum

Paris to close bars, raise coronavirus alert to maximum

-- 2020-10-05 13:06:25

Paris will shut all bars completely from Tuesday as the French government raises the city's coronavirus alert to maximum following a sustained period of high infection rates. Full detail of the new r...

Spain orders partial lockdown on defiant Madrid

Spain orders partial lockdown on defiant Madrid

-- 2020-10-03 12:24:23

More than three million people in Madrid have had new restrictions imposed on their lives as Spain tries to control the most serious second wave of Covid-19 infections in Europe. From this weekend, p...

Catalonia to hold Feb 14 vote to choose new regional chief

Catalonia to hold Feb 14 vote to choose new regional chief

-- 2020-10-02 16:28:41

The Spanish region of Catalonia will hold an election on Feb 14 if regional lawmakers don't elect a candidate to replace ousted president Quim Torra, parliamentary speaker Roger Torrent announced on F...

Former Belgium king's daughter wins legal battle to become princess

Former Belgium king's daughter wins legal battle to become princess

Reuters 2020-10-02 10:26:44

A Belgian artist who has fought a seven-year legal battle to prove that Belgium’s former King Albert II is her father secured a literally crowning success in court on Thursday when she officiall...

EU takes action over UK's blow to Brexit bill

EU takes action over UK's blow to Brexit bill

-- 2020-10-01 17:24:15

The European Union launched a legal case against the United Kingdom on Thursday for undercutting their earlier divorce deal and a senior UK minister said differences remained in talks on a post-Brexit...

Migrants hoping to reach EU sheltering in Bosnian forests

Migrants hoping to reach EU sheltering in Bosnian forests

-- 2020-09-30 23:14:25

Hundreds of migrants hoping to reach the European Union are sheltering in forests and ruined former factory buildings near Bosnia’s border with Croatia, with the cold setting in and conditions b...

Turkey prepares second indictment of six Khashoggi murder suspects

Turkey prepares second indictment of six Khashoggi murder suspects

-- 2020-09-28 18:18:40

Turkish prosecutors have prepared a second indictment in connection with the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, naming six new Saudi nationals as suspects. Khashoggi, a crit...

UK mulls tougher restrictions for England as Covid cases keep rising

UK mulls tougher restrictions for England as Covid cases keep rising

Reuters 2020-09-28 13:05:55

The British government is mulling tougher restrictions in England to tackle a swiftly accelerating second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak, possibly outlawing more inter-household socialising, a...

Nobel Prizes go ahead amid pandemic

Nobel Prizes go ahead amid pandemic

Reuters 2020-09-26 19:08:31

The winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes will miss out on a swanky gala in Stockholm surrounded by royalty and Sweden’s glitterati, but 2020 will at least not be added to the war years when...

Air force cadets among 22 die in Ukraine military plane crash

Air force cadets among 22 die in Ukraine military plane crash

-- 2020-09-26 10:12:01

A military transport plane carrying air force cadets crashed and burst into flames near a highway in northeastern Ukraine on Friday evening, killing at least 22 people on board, officials said. The A...

Italian PM says targeted closures might be applied to contain coronavirus spread

Italian PM says targeted closures might be applied to contain coronavirus spread

-- 2020-09-24 13:08:47

Italy may apply well-targeted closures where necessary to contain the spread of the new coronavirus while another general lockdown is unlikely, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told la Stampa daily in an...

Paris Eiffel tower evacuated: Security source

Paris Eiffel tower evacuated: Security source

-- 2020-09-23 17:34:50

Paris’s Eiffel Tower has been evacuated, a security source told Reuters on Wednesday. The source could not confirm whether the evacuation followed a bomb threat, as some media reported.

Britain imposes six-month curbs against second wave

Britain imposes six-month curbs against second wave

-- 2020-09-22 21:26:37

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged his countrymen to work from home where possible and ordered bars and restaurants to close early to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of COVID-19 with n...

Russia to share legal risks of COVID-19 vaccine

Russia to share legal risks of COVID-19 vaccine

Reuters 2020-09-22 20:09:15

Russia is so confident in its COVID-19 vaccine that it will shoulder some of the legal liability should anything go wrong, rather than requiring buyers to take on the full risk, the head of the state...

US, China absent from global vaccine plan joined by 156 nations

US, China absent from global vaccine plan joined by 156 nations

Reuters 2020-09-22 11:09:20

Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against Covid-19, an alliance led by the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, but superpowers China and...

‘Surrounded by NATO’, neutral Switzerland to vote on buying fighter jets

‘Surrounded by NATO’, neutral Switzerland to vote on buying fighter jets

REUTERS 2020-09-21 14:53:27

Switzerland, which last fought a foreign war more than 200 years ago and has no discernable enemies, wants to spend billions on new fighter jets. Many oppose the idea, saying the neutral country neit...

Czech health minister quits amid surge in coronavirus cases

Czech health minister quits amid surge in coronavirus cases

-- 2020-09-21 13:34:06

Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtech said on Monday he had submitted his resignation following criticism over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as the central European country sees a surge in ca...

Protesters hold rally against lockdown measures in London

Protesters hold rally against lockdown measures in London

-- 2020-09-20 17:17:15

More than a thousand people gathered in central London on Saturday to protest against lockdown measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, before the event was broken up by police. The p...

£10,000 fine for breaking COVID-19 rules in England

£10,000 fine for breaking COVID-19 rules in England

-- 2020-09-20 16:21:25

People in England who break new rules requiring them to self-isolate if they have been in contact with someone infected with COVID-19 will face a fine of up to 10,000 pounds ($12,914). The rules will...