#Israel toughened its #coronavirus measures on Thursday as a second nationwide #lockdown failed to bring down the world’s highest infection rate a week after it was imposed.

Sasha is an animal rights activist. Whenever he gets the chance, he comes to help Dominique with her animals : she is in charge of France’s largest shelter for farms animals.

#Rio de Janeiro delayed its annual #Carnival parade, saying Thursday night that the global spectacle cannot go ahead in February because of Brazil’s continued vulnerability to the #pandemic.

Bah Ndaw, a retired colonel who has been designated #Mali‘s interim president following last month’s coup, made his first public appearance on Thursday, meeting a regional mediator

#Gaza‘s Islamist rulers #Hamas and their rivals #Fatah in the occupied West Bank agreed Thursday to hold the first Palestinian #elections since 2006, united by their opposition to Arab-Israeli normalisation deals.