Issued on: 25/10/2020 – 09:58 Advertising Read more Baghdad (AFP) Thousands of Iraqis headed Sunday to Baghdad’s iconic Tahrir Square and its high-security Green Zone to mark the first anniversary of a protest movement against the country’s stagnant political class. “This is an important day, we are here to keep the movement going,” student Mohamed […]
Rallies are expected to take place in Belarus against strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka on October 25, the end of a deadline set by the opposition for him to step down or face a nationwide strike. The Interior Ministry issued an advance warning that people should not attend demonstrations for which no permit has been issued. Belarus […]
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Greek border guards have been forcing large numbers of refugees back to sea in pushback operations that violate international law. DER SPIEGEL and its reporting partners have learned that the European Union is also complicit in the highly controversial practice. Icon: vergrößern A Frontex ship in the Agean Sea (Excerpt from a Turkish coast guard […]
Issued on: 25/10/2020 – 06:46Modified: 25/10/2020 – 06:44 Advertising Read more Santiago (AFP) A year to the day after more than one million people thronged downtown Santiago in the biggest march of Chile’s social uprising, Chileans vote Sunday on whether to change the country’s dictatorship-era constitution. Voters are expected to turn out in numbers, spurred […]
Issued on: 25/10/2020 – 03:02Modified: 25/10/2020 – 03:00 Advertising Read more Atlanta (AFP) The life-art imitation question is age-old, but if 2020 has anything to say the answer is clear: even the fictional characters of our operas have developed Covid-19. The Atlanta Opera premiered an outdoor series this week, set to run through mid-November, that […]
Voters across Ukraine will cast ballots on October 25 in local elections being held under a new Electoral Code that decentralizes power from Kyiv to local governing bodies. The polls are considered the most consequential local elections in Ukraine’s modern history, with all local officials up for replacement and the new local governments being granted […]
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – Confirmed coronavirus infections continued to soar Saturday in many parts of the U.S. and Europe. In some cases, so did anger over the restrictions governments put in place to try to stem the tide. Oklahoma, Illinois, New Mexico and Michigan were among states announcing new record highs in daily confirmed cases Saturday, […]
Issued on: 25/10/2020 – 00:06 Advertising Read more Milan (AFP) Antonio Conte hailed Romelu Lukaku’s progress since joining Inter Milan last season as the Belgian scored his seventh goal this campaign in a 2-0 Serie A win over Genoa. Second half strikes from Belgium striker Lukaku and Danilo D’Ambrosio put Conte’s Inter third, ahead of […]
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has urged the authorities to prioritize public health above any economic or security concerns as the Middle East’s hardest-hit country battles a third wave of the coronavirus outbreak. Iran’s death toll from COVID-19 topped 32,000 this week. “We must do everything” to reduce the number of deaths, Khamenei said, […]