#Zimbabwe enters another #lockdown as #coronovirus numbers spike. Despite calls for people to avoid large gatherings, huge crowds worryingly build up at the border with South Africa.
Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures arrested under national security law
#China’s #crackdown in #HongKong escalated dramatically on Wednesday with police arresting as many as 50 opposition figures in their largest operation since a draconian security law was imposed on the financial hub.
Democrat Warnock wins first Senate runoff vote in Georgia, second race still too close to call
#Democrat Raphael #Warnock ousted an incumbent Republican Wednesday in the first of two critical runoff elections in #Georgia that will decide control of the US Senate at the outset of Joe Biden’s presidency...
Coronavirus pandemic: UK hospitals stagger as new virus variant takes huge toll
#Britain is facing a long, bleak winter as cold, wet weather and a more contagious #variant of the coronavirus put unprecedented strain on the nation’s #hospitals and force record numbers of patients to wait 12...
Wikileaks’ Assange denied bail by London court
A British judge on Wednesday denied bail to #WikiLeaks’ founder Julian #Assange, who has been #jailed in Britain since 2019 as he fights extradition to the United States. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ordered Assange...
European Medicines Agency approves Moderna coronavirus vaccine
The European Union’s medicines agency gave the green light Wednesday to #Moderna Inc.’s #Covid-19 vaccine, a decision that gives the 27-nation bloc a second vaccine to use in the desperate battle to tame the virus...
Hong Kong crackdown: Over 50 pro-democracy activists and politicians arrested
The sudden arrest of dozens of pro-#democracy activists in #HongKong, in the most sweeping use of a new national security law to date, is a clear sign of #Beijing‘s determination to rein in political opposition in...