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'Things will get worse': London goes into stricter lockdown

'Things will get worse': London goes into stricter lockdown

Reuters 2020-10-15 21:51:58

London, the world's international financial capital, will enter a tighter COVID-19 lockdown from midnight on Friday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to tackle a swiftly accelerating second corona...

'Time is running out,' EU cautions, urging measures to avoid new lockdowns

'Time is running out,' EU cautions, urging measures to avoid new lockdowns

-- 2020-10-15 18:25:56

The European Commission urged member nations on Thursday to step up preparations against the new surge of coronavirus infections and recommended common measures to roll out vaccines should they become...

Tougher Covid-19 restrictions on London from Saturday

Tougher Covid-19 restrictions on London from Saturday

BBC 2020-10-15 17:17:22

Millions of Londoners will face tougher Tier 2 Covid measures from Saturday, with a ban on households mixing indoors, the health secretary has said. Essex and other areas will also move to high-alert...

France orders curfew in nine cities to fight second wave of Covid-19

France orders curfew in nine cities to fight second wave of Covid-19

-- 2020-10-15 11:43:13

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a night-time curfew in Paris and eight other cities to try to curb the rapid spread of coronavirus. The measure - from 21:00 to 06:00 - will come into e...

Europe tightens measures amid surge in Covid cases

Europe tightens measures amid surge in Covid cases

-- 2020-10-14 13:16:48

The Czech Republic is imposing a three-week partial lockdown shutting schools, bars and clubs, as Europe struggles to contain a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases. The country has the region's highest new...

44 Turks die from alcohol poisoning in past week

44 Turks die from alcohol poisoning in past week

-- 2020-10-13 20:04:23

Forty-four people in Turkey have died from bootleg alcohol poisoning over the past week, state media reported on Tuesday, as more Turks opt for cheaper options after sharp rises in taxes on liquor. T...

Turkey issues warrants for 167 over alleged Gulen links

Turkey issues warrants for 167 over alleged Gulen links

Reuters 2020-10-13 12:37:20

Turkish police detained dozens of people on Tuesday in a search for 167 suspects, many of them active duty soldiers, in a move against supporters of a Muslim preacher the government accuses of organis...

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.