Germany and France prepare new lockdowns as Covid sweeps Europe
Reuters, Berlin : Germany and France prepared to announce restrictions approaching the level of last spring’s blanket lockdowns on Wednesday as COVID deaths across Europe...
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Turkey to take legal, diplomatic steps against French caricature of Erdogan
Reuters, Istanbul : Turkey said on Wednesday it will take legal and diplomatic steps in response to a caricature of President Tayyip Erdogan in the...
Millions vote in state elections amid pandemic challenges
Al Jazeera News : India’s first key elections during the coronavirus pandemic has begun in the eastern state of Bihar, with physical distancing regulations and...
Iran reports Covid-19 death every five minutes, hospitals struggle
Reuters, Dubai :Hospitals in many Iranian provinces are running out of capacity to handle COVID-19 cases, health authorities say, with novel coronavirus now killing around...
Philippines: Typhoon Molave displaces thousands, floods villages
Al Jazeera News :Thousands of villagers were forced to flee their homes in the Philippines as a fast-moving typhoon made landfall, flooding rural villages, ripping...
Climate activists abseil from bridges, halt Frankfurt rush-hour traffic
Reuters, Berlin :Climate activists abseiled from bridges near Germany’s financial hub Frankfurt on Monday in protest at the planned expansion of a motorway, causing backed-up...
Poland abortion ruling: Protesters disrupt church services
BBC Online :Protesters have disrupted church services across Poland in the latest show of discontent against a court’s near-total ban on abortion.The protesters staged sit-ins...
DR Congo army says Burundi rebels forced from strongholds
Al Jazeera News :Congolese soldiers have forced fighters from the main Burundian rebel force from their stronghold in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo...
WHO chief warns against vaccine nationalism
AFP :The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday called for global solidarity in the rollout of any future coronavirus vaccine, as the...
Celebrations in Chile as voters back rewriting Constitution
Al Jazeera News :Tens of thousands of Chileans have taken to Santiago’s main square in celebration after people across the country overwhelmingly backed re-writing Chile’s...
Suicide bombing at Kabul education centre kills 24
Reuters, Kabul :A suicide bombing at an education centre in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul killed 24 people including teenage students and wounded dozens more on Saturday,...