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Girlfriend of Belarusian blogger ‘confesses’ in video, opposition cries foul

Girlfriend of Belarusian blogger ‘confesses’ in video, opposition cries foul

REUTERS 2021-05-26 16:53:36

The girlfriend of a Belarusian blogger detained with him on Sunday after a plane they were travelling on was forced to land in Belarus appeared in a video on Tuesday evening in which she made a confes...

Belarus faces sanctions over 'state piracy', arrest of journalist

Belarus faces sanctions over 'state piracy', arrest of journalist

Reuters 2021-05-25 09:59:47

Western powers prepared to pile sanctions on Belarus and cut off its aviation links on Monday, furious after it scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair aircraft and arrest a dissident journalist,...

Biden, Putin likely to hold summit in Geneva

Biden, Putin likely to hold summit in Geneva

-- 2021-05-25 09:59:11

US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely hold a summit in Geneva in June, US media reported on Monday. Citing sources familiar with the matter, several media outlets sa...

Belarus forces airliner to land and arrests opposition journalist

Belarus forces airliner to land and arrests opposition journalist

Reuters 2021-05-24 10:21:08

Belarusian authorities scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land on Sunday and then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was...

Europe embraces gradual return to normal life

Europe embraces gradual return to normal life

-- 2021-05-24 10:12:50

Europe is embracing a cautious but steady return to normal life as lockdowns are gradually being eased in many countries ahead of a much-awaited tourist season. Normality was seen returning as cinema...

Italian cable car crash kills at least 13, injures three

Italian cable car crash kills at least 13, injures three

REUTERS 2021-05-23 21:37:50

At least 13 people died and three were seriously injured on Sunday when a cable car linking Italy's Lake Maggiore with a nearby mountain in the Alps plunged 20 metres to the ground, local officials an...

Prince William slams BBC over deceitful Diana interview

Prince William slams BBC over deceitful Diana interview

-- 2021-05-21 21:47:19

Britain's Prince William accused the BBC of failing his mother Princess Diana and poisoning her relationship with Prince Charles after an inquiry found a journalist for the broadcaster deceitfully obt...

Pain of Diana's death pushed me to drink and drugs, Harry says

Pain of Diana's death pushed me to drink and drugs, Harry says

REUTERS 2021-05-21 17:36:44

Prince Harry said he abused alcohol to numb the pain of his mother Diana's death in 1997, and accused the British royal family of neglecting him and his wife Meghan as she contemplated suicide. Harry...

BBC fell short over Princess Diana interview, Bashir 'deceitful'

BBC fell short over Princess Diana interview, Bashir 'deceitful'

Reuters 2021-05-20 20:05:48

The BBC fell short of its high standards for integrity over how it persuaded Princess Diana to give the broadcaster an interview in 1995 and the journalist involved, Martin Bashir, was guilty of decei...

EU agrees to ease travel restrictions on non-EU tourists

EU agrees to ease travel restrictions on non-EU tourists

REUTERS 2021-05-19 18:52:31

European Union countries agreed on Wednesday to ease COVID-19 travel restrictions on non-EU visitors ahead of the summer tourist season, two EU sources said. Ambassadors from the 27 EU countries appr...

Sweden's third COVID wave ebbing fast as vaccines bite

Sweden's third COVID wave ebbing fast as vaccines bite

REUTERS 2021-05-18 19:58:05

Sweden, which has shunned lockdowns throughout the pandemic, has seen the number of cases and intensive care patients drop fast in the recent weeks with more than 40 per cent of the adult population n...

Italy shortens COVID-19 curfew, eases other restrictions

Italy shortens COVID-19 curfew, eases other restrictions

-- 2021-05-18 12:47:00

Italy's government has approved a decree pushing back with immediate effect a nightly coronavirus curfew to 11:00 pm from 10:00 pm and easing other curbs in the regions where infections are low. Prim...

Police move revellers off streets at Barcelona after lockdown easing

Police move revellers off streets at Barcelona after lockdown easing

REUTERS 2021-05-16 21:51:17

Spanish police said they cleared 9,000 revellers from Barcelona's city centre streets and the nearby beach on Sunday to prevent dangerous overcrowding on the first full weekend after COVID-19 restrict...

Greece formally opens to tourists after months of pandemic restrictions

Greece formally opens to tourists after months of pandemic restrictions

REUTERS 2021-05-16 17:22:43

Greece formally opened to visitors on Saturday, kicking off a summer season it hopes will resurrect its vital tourism industry battered by the coronavirus pandemic. After months of lockdown restricti...

Italian dictionary scraps 'sexist' definitions of a woman

Italian dictionary scraps 'sexist' definitions of a woman

REUTERS 2021-05-15 16:26:47

An Italian dictionary has revised its "sexist" definition of a woman - dropping negative words including "whore" and "bitch" from the list of synonyms following a high-profile campaign for change. Do...

Shipwreck off Tunis leaves at least 17 migrants dead

Shipwreck off Tunis leaves at least 17 migrants dead

-- 2021-05-14 10:38:32

At least 17 African migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunis as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, the Tunisian Red Crescent said on Thursday. The Tunisian coastguard had res...

Madame Tussauds moves Prince Harry and Meghan waxworks from royals

Madame Tussauds moves Prince Harry and Meghan waxworks from royals

-- 2021-05-13 20:40:26

A year after leaving their royal duties to move to Los Angeles, Madame Tussauds has now decided waxwork models of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan now belong in the attraction's Hollywood zone and not...

Russia reports first cases of Indian Covid variant

Russia reports first cases of Indian Covid variant

Reuters 2021-05-13 13:32:35

Russia has recorded its first cases of the variant of Covid-19 first found in India, Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday, citing authorities in the Ulyanovsk region. The regional branch of cons...

Turkey urges Muslim nations to take clear stance over Gaza

Turkey urges Muslim nations to take clear stance over Gaza

-- 2021-05-13 13:10:36

Muslim countries must show a united and clear stance over Israel's conflict with the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza, Turkey's vice president, Fuat Oktay, said on Thursday, criticising world powers fo...

Chernobyl staff record increase in nuclear activity within safe limits

Chernobyl staff record increase in nuclear activity within safe limits

REUTERS 2021-05-12 21:47:08

Scientists have recorded a rise in nuclear activity in the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine since it was covered over in 2017, but the rise has levelled off and does n...

German vaccine seekers becoming aggressive, doctors say

German vaccine seekers becoming aggressive, doctors say

Reuters 2021-05-12 16:23:29

Germans desperate to be vaccinated against the coronavirus are becoming increasingly aggressive, doctors said on Wednesday, as frustration mounts after six months of lockdowns even though infection ra...

Pope Francis supports waiving intellectual property rights for vaccines

Pope Francis supports waiving intellectual property rights for vaccines

REUTERS 2021-05-08 19:51:53

Pope Francis on Saturday supported waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, backing a proposal by US President Joe Biden that has been rebuffed by some European nations, including G...

EU agrees potential 1.8 billion-dose purchase of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine

EU agrees potential 1.8 billion-dose purchase of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine

-- 2021-05-08 19:17:19

The European Union cemented its support for Pfizer-BioNTech and its novel COVID-19 vaccine technology Saturday by agreeing to a massive contract extension for a potential 1.8 billion doses through 202...

Indian coronavirus variant spreads more easily, British health officials say

Indian coronavirus variant spreads more easily, British health officials say

-- 2021-05-07 19:38:38

British health officials on Friday labelled a coronavirus variant first found in India a "variant of concern" due to evidence it spreads more easily, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying the situa...

Firefighters tackle blaze at 19-storey London tower block

Firefighters tackle blaze at 19-storey London tower block

-- 2021-05-07 19:09:23

Firefighters in London were tackling a blaze at a 19-storey block of flats in the east of the city on Friday, with smoke emerging from parts of the 8th, 9th and 10th floors and ambulances treating peo...

Third wave of pandemic 'appears to be broken, German health minister says

Third wave of pandemic 'appears to be broken, German health minister says

-- 2021-05-07 17:21:55

The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be broken, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday, as social distancing measures and an accelerating vaccination campaign help lower the...

Nearly 20 million more people hit by food crises in 2020: Report

Nearly 20 million more people hit by food crises in 2020: Report

Reuters 2021-05-05 14:25:37

Nearly 20 million more people faced food crises last year amid armed conflict, the Covid-19 pandemic and weather extremes, and the outlook for this year is again grim, according to a report by the Glo...

Netherlands won't ease lockdown further until at least May 18

Netherlands won't ease lockdown further until at least May 18

REUTERS 2021-05-01 21:56:47

The Netherlands has postponed a further easing of lockdown measures until at least May 18 as COVID-19 infections remain high and hospitals are struggling with large numbers of coronavirus patients, th...

AstraZeneca's CEO defends COVID-19 vaccine supply

AstraZeneca's CEO defends COVID-19 vaccine supply

REUTERS 2021-04-30 18:44:53

Pascal Soriot, who is under intense fire from the European Union over the delivery of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines, said on Friday the drugmaker he runs had not overpromised on the supply of shots....

Boris Johnson's phone number was online for 15 years, report says

Boris Johnson's phone number was online for 15 years, report says

-- 2021-04-30 16:32:22

The British government downplayed allegations Friday of security risk after it was reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cell phone number was openly available on the internet for 15 year...