France has expelled family members of a Bosnian Muslim teenager who forcibly shaved her head because she wanted to marry a Christian Serbian man, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. French officials said five members of the 17-year-old girl’s family — her parents and three siblings — who lived in the eastern city of Besancon […]
Europe became the second region after Latin America to surpass 250,000 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, with record numbers of daily COVID-19 infections reported in the past two weeks. Europe reported 200 thousand daily infections for the first time on Thursday, as many Southern European countries this week reported their highest number of cases […]
Northern Canada has been keeping a secret from the rest of the world. It’s home to “Resurrection,” a tectonic plate that has been much theorized but never found until now. A team of researchers used what amounts to a CAT scan of northern Canada and the mantle underneath it to find the missing plate. Finding […]
A beloved free book exchange in Jerusalem partially burned down on Shabbat, with many books on its shelving units destroyed in the process. Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion said in a statement that the city will renovate the station and add books to it in coming days, “but the disappointment from the incident will not be […]
Spoiler alert: this article explores some general plot trends from the series. The clear standout among this Halloween season’s TV offerings is The Haunting of Bly Manor, a ghost story adapted from the Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw. In a strange twist for a TV series, the second episode features a conversation […]
Issued on: 24/10/2020 – 16:10 Advertising Read more Jerusalem (AFP) Pope Francis has appointed an Italian priest, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, as Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, the patriarchate said in a statement Saturday. He had filled the post in an interim capacity since the retirement in 2016 of Patriarch Fouad Twal, a Jordanian, at the age of […]
Azerbaijani and Armenian forces have continued to clash in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, a day after the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington to discuss how to resolve the decades-long conflict. There were conflicting claims from Baku and Yerevan about the fighting. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said […]
The newly-relaunched Thomas Cook has seen demand for holidays in the Canary Islands leap as searches rise more than 20 times on the previous week for the Spanish holiday hotspot. Overall traffic yesterday tripled following the 17:00 announcement yesterday, when Grant Shapps confirmed Brits travelling to the Canary Islands, Denmark and Mykonos would not need […]
Issued on: 24/10/2020 – 12:11 Thousands of protesters vented fury across Poland over a top court ruling that declared abortions of fetuses with congenital defects unconstitutional, effectively narrowing one of Europe’s strictest abortion laws. Advertising Read more Police vans and units in riot gear were dispatched Friday to guard the Warsaw home of the leader […]
BISHKEK — The press service for Kyrgyzstan’s Central Election Commission (BShK) says an early presidential election has been scheduled to take place on January 10. In a statement on October 24, the BShK said the decision was reached at an election commission session in Bishkek. The announcement comes after weeks of political upheaval that toppled […]