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ROME, Italy (AFP) — The Italian government imposed tighter restrictions on another five regions on Tuesday as it tries to stem escalating new cases of coronavirus, while still resisting a nationwide lockdown. A total of seven out of Italy’s 20 regions are now so-called “orange” zones, signifying medium-high risk, after a new decree signed by Health Minister Roberto Speranza overnight. Abruzzo, Basilicata, Liguria, Tuscany and Umbria join Sicily and Puglia in closing bars and restaurants, […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Pope Francis’s former envoy to France, Luigi Ventura, goes on trial in Paris on Tuesday for sexual assault following complaints by five men who accused him of groping them during public ceremonies. The allegations against the 75-year-old Italian-born archbishop caused deep embarrassment for the Vatican, coming in the midst of a slew of revelations about clerical sex abuse that have rocked the Catholic Church. Ventura was stripped of his diplomatic […]
by Agnès PEDRERO GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization’s chief called Monday on everyone to keep fighting Covid-19, warning that while we may be sick of battling the pandemic, the virus is “not tired of us”. Speaking to WHO’s main annual assembly, which resumed Monday after being cut short in May, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also hailed the election of Joe Biden as the next US president, voicing hope it could signal tighter global […]
by Callum PATON LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Collins Dictionary said on Tuesday that “lockdown” is its Word of The Year in 2020 following a dramatic increase in usage during the spread of Covid-19. Lexicographers said they picked the word because it had become synonymous with the experience of populations across the world as governments look to curb the coronavirus pandemic. “It is a unifying experience for billions of people across the world, who have […]
by Denise HRUBY VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Eight of those detained following Monday night’s terrorist attack in Vienna had previous convictions, including for terror offences, the Austrian interior minister said Thursday, as the investigation extended to Switzerland and a second, unnamed country. In the wake of the attack in which an Austrian-born man shot and killed four people in a popular nightlife area of central Vienna on Monday night, police arrested a total of 16 […]
by Jastinder KHERA Agence France Presse VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — A huge manhunt was under way Tuesday after gunmen opened fire at multiple locations across central Vienna, killing at least two people and wounding several more in what Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz describes as a “repulsive terror attack”. One of the gunmen was shot dead by police who said they were hunting for at least one more assailant still at large. The attacks, in […]
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AFP) — Czech police said they had started random checks on the country’s border with Austria following Monday’s attack near a Vienna synagogue that had left at least two dead and several injured. “Police are carrying out random checks of vehicles and passengers on border crossings with Austria as a preventive measure in relation to the terror attack in Vienna,” Czech police tweeted. Police added they had stepped up “supervision over major […]
by Jastinder KHERA VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Two people including one attacker were killed in central Vienna on Monday evening in what Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz described as a “repulsive terror attack”. Police said there was “one deceased person” and several injured, including one police officer. Meanwhile, one suspect was “shot and killed by police officers,” Vienna police said on their Twitter account. The attack had been carried out by “several suspects armed with rifles”, […]
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Austrian Interior Minster Karl Nehammer said late Monday that the shooting in central Vienna near a major synagogue appeared to be a terrorist attack and was ongoing. “It appears to be a terror attack” with several people injured and several attackers involved, Nehammer told public broadcaster ORF. Frequent sirens could be heard in central Vienna as emergency services responded to the incident. © Agence France-Presse
BAYRAKLI, TURKEY (AFP) — Rescue workers were searching eight buildings in Izmir Sunday, despite dwindling hope for survivors, as the death toll of a powerful magnitude earthquake which hit western Turkey rose to 49. The 7.0-magnitude quake has also injured 896 in Turkey, the Turkish emergency authority AFAD said, after striking on Friday afternoon near the west coast town of Seferihisar in Izmir province. More than 200 people were in hospital, AFAD said, and […]
by Joe Jackson, with AFP Bureaus Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a new four-week coronavirus lockdown in England, which will join several European countries in imposing the measure for a second time, as Slovakia took a different tack and began testing its entire population. Global infections are fast approaching 46 million, with close to 1.2 million deaths, and Europe is experiencing a dizzying spike […]
by Raziye Akkoc Agence France Presse Rescuers raced against the clock to save people trapped under rubble in Turkey and Greece on Saturday as anguished mourners buried the first victims of a powerful earthquake that claimed 39 lives. The 7.0-magnitude quake killed 37 people and injured nearly 900 in Turkey after striking on Friday afternoon near the west coast town of Seferihisar in Izmir province. Also killing two teenagers on their way home from […]
