While the world is excited about the Covid-19 vaccine, it poses a problem for the French president. Emmanuel Macron leads a country where there is deep mistrust of the government and of pharmaceutical companies. He...
Coronavirus pandemic: South Korea battles third wave of infections
#SouthKorea‘s President #Moon Jae-in warned on Sunday that #Covid-19 #restrictions may be raised to the highest level after a second day of record increases in cases as the country battles a harsh third wave of...
Coronavirus pandemic: Germany announces new lockdown restrictions
The German government called on citizens Monday to forgo Christmas shopping, two days before the country heads into a hard lockdown that will shut most stores, tighten social distancing rules and close schools across...
Hundreds of Nigerian students missing after attack on school
Hundreds of #Nigerian #students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state, police said, while the president said the military was in #gunfights with bandits...
EU rights agency warns of risks of artificial intelligence, suggests new rules
The #EU‘s Fundamental Rights Agency has issued a report calling for policymakers to consider new guidelines to accompany the spread of artificial intelligence technology. Among other suggestions, the agency...
France launches mass Covid-19 screening campaigns before lifting lockdown
The French cities of Le Havre, on the Normandy coast, and Charleville-Mézières, near the Belgian border, are conducting mass #Covid-19 #testing campaigns on Monday in the country’s latest effort to stem the spread...
John le Carré, British spy-turned-novelist, dies aged 89
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” author John le Carre, who cast flawed #spies on to the bleak chessboard of Cold War rivalry, has died aged 89.