Large crowds are expected to turn out in Belarus for the seventh consecutive Sunday of protests against authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko. On Saturday, police in the capital Minsk made dozens of arrests at a...
Covid-19: China’s dilemma over wild meat trade – BBC News
China is facing mounting pressure to restart its wild animal meat trade despite the fact it’s still not clear where the coronavirus outbreak started or how it spread. Breeding snakes and types of rat for food or...
Trump nominates religious conservative Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court – BBC News
President Trump has announced that he is nominating the conservative federal judge Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the US Supreme Court. The nomination will trigger a bitter political battle in Congress as Republicans try...
COVID-19: A third of tests in England cannot be processed by NHS app
The developers of the new NHS coronavirus tracing app have admitted that more than 60,000 tests carried out in England yesterday – just under a third of the total – cannot be linked to its systems. The...
Coronavirus: Oldham residents adjust to pubs in England’s new closing time
Oldham has already been under tighter COVID-19 restrictions for five weeks, but infection rates are still rising. So how will the city’s residents adjust as a 10pm curfew is introduced across England for pubs.
The Cost of an Arms Race in the Gulf | Bigger Than Five
The so-called Abraham Accords, which were described by the US President as a “significant step towards building a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous Middle East”, reinforce the anti-Iran axis in the Gulf region. They...
‘Peace Deal’ or Arms Race? | Bigger Than Five
It was hailed by President Trump as “a historic breakthrough”. Israel and two Arab Gulf nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, signed bilateral agreements at the White House last week establishing full...