French interior minister warns Turkey to stay out of their domestic affairs
Turkey should not meddle in France’s domestic affairs, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Tuesday, after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for a boycott of...
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Russia orders wider use of masks, France looking to impose strickter measures
Russian authorities on Tuesday ordered people across the country to wear facemasks in some public places and asked regional authorities to consider shutting bars and...
France reviews options for tighter COVID-19 restrictions -sources
French authorities are looking at options for still tighter measures to fight COVID-19, which has kept spreading in the country despite some of the strictest...
Erdogan calls on Turks to boycott French goods
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on Monday for Turks never to buy French goods and urged European Union leaders to halt French leader Emmanuel Macron’s...
Miss airline food? Finnair selling business class meals in supermarket
Finland’s national carrier Finnair has started selling its business class meals in a supermarket to prevent job cuts at its catering unit due to COVID-19....
Pakistan’s PM takes aim at Macron; asks Facebook to ban Islamophobic content
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan called on Facebook to ban Islamophobic content on its platform, warning of a spike in radicalisation amongst Muslims, hours after...
Belarus strike actions start after Lukashenko ignores deadline to quit
Factory workers chanted slogans, students staged a sit-in and police began detentions on Monday as Belarusians answered an opposition call for a national strike to...
UK police say dealing with incident aboard vessel off English coast
British police said on Sunday they were dealing with an ongoing incident aboard a vessel near the coast of the Isle of Wight, an island...
Spain announces new state of emergency as COVID infections soar
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced a new state of emergency on Sunday in an effort to curb soaring coronavirus infections, imposing local nighttime curfews...
Archbishop Pizzaballa appointed Jerusalem Patriarch
Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Vatican’s apostolic administrator in the Holy Land, has been named as the new Patriarch of Jerusalem by Pope Francis, a diocese...
Turkey extends east Med survey, Greece calls it an ‘illegal move’ (updated)
Turkey said it was extending the seismic survey work of its Oruc Reis ship in a disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean until Nov. 4,...
France recalls envoy after Turkey scolds Macron over Muslims
France recalled its ambassador on Saturday after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his counterpart Emmanuel Macron needed mental help over his attitude towards Muslims. “Outrage and insult...
Britain records 23,012 new COVID cases on Saturday
Britain recorded 23,012 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, up from 20,530 on Friday, government data showed. There were 174 deaths within 28 days of a...
Irish PM confident on Brexit, believes British PM wants deal
Ireland’s prime minister said on Saturday he thinks Britain and the European Union will strike a post-Brexit trade deal and that the resumption of talks...
Polish President Duda infected with coronavirus; Swiatek goes into quarantine
Polish President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for coronavirus and is subject to quarantine but is feeling good, officials announced on Saturday, as the country...
New clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh after Washington talks
New clashes broke out between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces over Nagorno-Karabakh a day after talks in Washington to try to end the deadliest fighting...
France becomes 7th country with more than 1 million COVID-19 cases
The number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections jumped over one million on Friday, making France the seventh country to reach that milestone. Over the past...
Protesters gather across Poland after court curbs abortion rights
Thousands protested across Poland on Friday despite coronavirus restrictions, a day after the top court banned almost all grounds for abortion in the Roman Catholic...
We need curfew now, Spanish regions say, Poland curbs public gatherings
Two Spanish regions, Castilla and Leon and Valencia, urged the central government on Friday to impose night-time curfews quickly to stem the coronavirus spread after...
Belgium further tightens Covid measures in bid to avoid lockdown
Belgium, one of Europe’s hardest hit countries by the coronavirus, further tightened restrictions on social contacts on Friday, banning fans from sports matches, limiting the...
