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How Europe compares in its Covid restrictions. Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP From nationwide lockdowns to barring the unvaccinated from bars and restaurants and increased travel restrictions, countries around Europe are choosing different strategies to fight a new wave of Covid. How Europe compares in its Covid restrictions. Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP […]

Belarus’ defense minister gives interview to Al Jazeera, condemns attack on refugees MINSK, 19 November (BelTA) – During the recent developments at the Bruzgi border checkpoint, Poland violated the state border and displayed the behavior towards refugees comparable to the Nazi methods, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said in an interview with the BBC, BelTA has […]

BECAUSE THE SUN, EARTH, AND MOON DON’T QUITE PERFECTLY LINE UP, IT WILL BE A PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE, WITH 97 PERCENT OF THE SURFACE COVERED. IMAGE CREDIT: DIEGO BARUCCO/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM  This week the Sun, Earth, and Moon will come together in near-perfect alignment, creating a partial lunar eclipse as Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon. It […]

Other European countries are also tightening restrictions as Covid-19 cases surge across the continent, but so far none have reimposed full lockdowns and only the Vatican has mandated vaccinations for all. Pedestrians wearing masks walk through the streets of the capital Vienna, November 17, 2021. © Michael Gruber, AP The lockdown will start on Monday, while vaccination against Covid-19 in the Alpine nation will become […]

 President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the U.S. was weighing a diplomatic boycott of the coming Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move that proponents say would be a highly visible rebuke of the Chinese government and its human rights record. President Joe Biden spoke virtually with Chinese leader Xi Jinping earlier this week about […]

Abdirisaq Mohamed Darod. Photo: Police  Gothenburg District Court, case number B 9148-21, has today sentenced Abdirisaq Mohamed Darod, 22, to life in prison for the murder of Osman Simmo, eight attempted murders and a felony. The crimes were committed in Hjällbo on May 30, 2021. Darod must also pay high damages totaling SEK 1.2 million. On the […]

 Polish security forces arrested around a hundred migrants overnight as they tried to break across the border from Belarus, AFP reported Poland’s defence ministry as saying on Thursday. Migrants warm themselves near a fire as they gather at the checkpoint “Kuznitsa” at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021.   –   Copyright  Maxim Guchek/BelTA via […]

 The European Union Wednesday reiterated its call on Armenia and Azerbaijan to show restraint and resume negotiations amid renewed fighting at their shared border. A damaged truck belonging to Armenian forces in an area that came under the control of Azerbaijan’s troops following a military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, in Jabrayil District, Azerbaijan, December 7, 2020. […]

A man lay dead in his home for two years. Photo: Jessica Gow / Johan Nilsson / TT A man has been found dead in an apartment in Stockholm. According to information to SVT, the man has probably been dead for over two years before he was discovered.  He lay dead in his apartment on Södermalm – […]

The suspect in the Liverpool bombing was able to exploit the UK’s ‘dysfunctional’ asylum system to remain in the country, Priti Patel has claimed. Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, was the only person to die in the Liverpool terror attack on Sunday (Picture: Rex/Getty) The suspect in the Liverpool bombing was able to exploit the UK’s ‘dysfunctional’ asylum system […]