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Muslims protest around Asia, Africa as France tightens security

Muslims protest around Asia, Africa as France tightens security

-- 2020-10-31 11:41:37

France stepped up security nationwide on Friday to guard against Islamist attacks after the fatal stabbings at a church in Nice, while protests flared in parts of the Middle East, Asia and Africa over...

Earthquake of magnitude 7.0 hits Turkey, Greece

Earthquake of magnitude 7.0 hits Turkey, Greece

-- 2020-10-30 19:38:36

A strong earthquake of a magnitude of up to 7.0 struck the Aegean Sea on Friday and was felt in both Turkey and Greece, local and international observatories said. People flooded to the streets in th...

UK's Labour Party suspends Jeremy Corbyn after anti-Semitism report

UK's Labour Party suspends Jeremy Corbyn after anti-Semitism report

Reuters 2020-10-30 18:32:33

Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Thursday suspended former leader Jeremy Corbyn in light of comments he made after a report said the party was responsible for unlawful harassment and discrim...

Knife attack in France leaves two dead

Knife attack in France leaves two dead

-- 2020-10-29 15:30:36

An attacker with a knife killed two people and wounded several others at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, French media and police said, in an incident the city’s mayor described...

UK lawmakers file case against PM Johnson

UK lawmakers file case against PM Johnson

Reuters 2020-10-29 14:41:30

A group of British opposition lawmakers have filed a legal case against Prime Minister Boris Johnson over what they say is his failure to protect the public’s right to free and fair elections af...

Germany, France prepare new lockdowns as COVID sweeps Europe

Germany, France prepare new lockdowns as COVID sweeps Europe

Reuters 2020-10-28 19:15:23

Germany and France prepared to announce restrictions approaching the level of last spring's blanket lockdowns on Wednesday as COVID deaths across Europe rose almost 40 per cent in a week, sending fina...

France cautions citizens to be alert as anger seethes in Muslim world over cartoons

France cautions citizens to be alert as anger seethes in Muslim world over cartoons

-- 2020-10-28 16:55:13

France warned its citizens in several Muslim-majority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, and the head of Russia's Chechnya r...

France issues travel alert to its citizens in Bangladesh

France issues travel alert to its citizens in Bangladesh

-- 2020-10-27 19:57:27

France has warned its citizens living or travelling in Bangladesh and several Muslim-majority countries to take extra security precautions as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)....

Antibodies against coronavirus decline rapidly in British population: Study

Antibodies against coronavirus decline rapidly in British population: Study

-- 2020-10-27 18:07:20

Antibodies against the novel coronavirus declined rapidly in the British population during the summer, a study found on Tuesday, suggesting protection after infection may not be long lasting and raisi...

Europe warns of bleak winter as second COVID wave swells

Europe warns of bleak winter as second COVID wave swells

Reuters 2020-10-26 21:11:47

European leaders warned of a bleak winter as resurgent COVID-19 infections forced countries to impose new restrictions to try to curb a second wave of the pandemic, with the United States, Russia and...

France urges Arab nations to prevent boycott of French products

France urges Arab nations to prevent boycott of French products

-- 2020-10-26 11:03:05

France has urged Middle Eastern countries to end calls for a boycott of its goods in protest at President Emmanuel Macron's defence of the right to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The French f...

Night-time curfew in Spain to curb coronavirus infections

Night-time curfew in Spain to curb coronavirus infections

BBC 2020-10-25 20:46:31

Spain has declared a national state of emergency and imposed a night-time curfew in an effort to help control a new spike in Covid-19 infections. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the curfew,...

EU mobilises €96m for Rohingya refugees

EU mobilises €96m for Rohingya refugees

-- 2020-10-25 16:50:19

The European Union has mobilised a total of €96 million for Rohingyas in 2020 for humanitarian, development cooperation as well as conflict prevention support. The EU along with the United State...

Europe becomes second region to cross 250,000 deaths

Europe becomes second region to cross 250,000 deaths

-- 2020-10-24 17:50:05

Europe became the second region after Latin America to surpass 250,000 deaths on Saturday, according to a Reuters tally, with record numbers of daily COVID-19 infections reported in the past two weeks...

Coronavirus spreading more quickly than in spring: Expert

Coronavirus spreading more quickly than in spring: Expert

-- 2020-10-23 19:49:31

The coronavirus virus is spreading more quickly than during its initial outbreak in the spring, French government scientific advisor Arnaud Fontanet said on Friday, in one of the starkest warnings yet...

France extends curfew as COVID second wave surges in Europe

France extends curfew as COVID second wave surges in Europe

Reuters   2020-10-23 18:33:06

France extended curfews to around two thirds of its population on Thursday and Belgium's foreign minister was taken into intensive care with COVID-19, as the second wave of the pandemic surged across...

Europe daily virus cases double in 10 days

Europe daily virus cases double in 10 days

Reuters 2020-10-23 11:52:26

Europe’s reported coronavirus cases more than doubled in 10 days, crossing 200,000 daily infections for the first time on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, with many Southern European coun...

Germany issues travel warnings as COVID-19 surges in Europe

Germany issues travel warnings as COVID-19 surges in Europe

Reuters 2020-10-22 22:00:02

Germany warned on Thursday against travel to neighbouring countries, Belgium's foreign minister went into intensive care and Spain said COVID-19 was "out of control" in many areas, as governments acro...

Spain first European nation to top 1.0m COVID-19 cases

Spain first European nation to top 1.0m COVID-19 cases

-- 2020-10-22 19:30:47

Spain became the first Western European country to exceed 1 million COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, doubling its tally in just six weeks despite a series of increasingly stringent measures to contro...

EU awards human rights prize to Belarus opposition

EU awards human rights prize to Belarus opposition

AP 2020-10-22 18:43:50

The European Union on Thursday awarded its top human rights prize to the Belarus opposition movement and its leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, for their challenge to President Alexander Lukashenko's l...

Police probe attack on antique artworks on Berlin's Museum Island  

Police probe attack on antique artworks on Berlin's Museum Island  

-- 2020-10-21 17:27:46

Berlin police are investigating an attack that caused extensive damage to works of art and artefacts displayed at three locations on the German capital’s Museum Island, reports Reuters. Confirm...

Coronavirus unlikely to be eradicated

Coronavirus unlikely to be eradicated

Reuters 2020-10-21 16:50:45

The coronavirus will be around for "evermore" as it is unlikely it will be eradicated, a British scientist on the government's advisory committee for the pandemic said on Wednesday, although a vaccine...

France to expel 231 'radicalised' foreigners after attack on teacher

France to expel 231 'radicalised' foreigners after attack on teacher

-- 2020-10-20 19:57:44

France is preparing to expel 231 foreigners on a government watch list for suspected extremist religious beliefs, a police union source said on Sunday, two days after a Russian-born Islamist beheaded...

Brexit brinkmanship as UK nixes further trade talks

Brexit brinkmanship as UK nixes further trade talks

REUTERS 2020-10-20 12:27:04

Britain sees no basis to resume trade talks with the European Union unless there is a fundamental change in approach from Brussels, chief negotiator David Frost said on Monday, dashing earlier optimis...

15 including four school students held over beheading of French teacher

15 including four school students held over beheading of French teacher

-- 2020-10-20 11:27:17

Four school students are among 15 people who have been taken into custody in France following the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who showed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pup...

Italy tightens rules amid surge in Covid cases

Italy tightens rules amid surge in Covid cases

-- 2020-10-19 12:31:12

Italy has announced a new raft of measures to tighten restrictions amid a surge in coronavirus cases. A mask-wearing PM Giuseppe Conte said the measures were needed "to avoid a new lockdown". Mayors...

US businesswoman 'admits affair' with British PM

US businesswoman 'admits affair' with British PM

-- 2020-10-17 17:41:32

A US tech entrepreneur at the centre of allegations of misconduct involving British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told a newspaper they did have an affair when he was mayor of London. The Daily Ma...

Austrian foreign minister tests positive for COVID-19 after EU meeting

Austrian foreign minister tests positive for COVID-19 after EU meeting

-- 2020-10-17 17:22:51

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has tested positive for the coronavirus and might have caught it at a meeting with his European Union counterparts on Monday, a spokeswoman for his min...

Suspension of drone exports is against alliance spirit, Erdogan tells Trudeau

Suspension of drone exports is against alliance spirit, Erdogan tells Trudeau

-- 2020-10-17 17:19:20

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada’s suspension of the export of some drone technology was not in line with the spirit of alliance, Erdogan&...

French police arrest nine after teacher beheaded in Paris suburb

French police arrest nine after teacher beheaded in Paris suburb

-- 2020-10-17 16:47:39

French police were questioning nine people in custody on Saturday after a suspected Islamist sympathiser beheaded a school teacher in broad daylight on the street in a Paris suburb, police sources sai...