On March 17, 2020, the day after Emmanuel Macron’s famous address to the nation, lockdown measures to fight the spread of #Covid-19 came into force in France. Six months on, people remember the surprise and anguish they...
Coronavirus pandemic: Intensive care capacities in Marseille close to overload
While French health authorities reported new 9,784 confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the third-highest number of daily additional infections on record since the end of the winter, intensive care capacities in...
Navalny aides say Novichok found on hotel water bottle
Aides of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny said Thursday that German experts found Novichok nerve agent on a water bottle taken from the hotel room where he stayed before being poisoned.
WHO chief for Europe urges countries to keep up coronavirus quarantines
The World Health Organization’s European director warned national governments Thursday against reducing the quarantine period for people potentially exposed to the coronavirus, even as he acknowledged that COVID-19...
Belarus leader accuses US and its allies of fueling protests
Belarus’ authoritarian leader accused the United States and its allies of fomenting massive demonstrations against his rule, a claim echoed Wednesday by Russia’s intelligence chief.
H&M cuts ties with Chinese supplier over forced labour allegations
The retail brand maintains that they have an ‘indirect business relationship’ with the alleged yarn provider in Xinjiang province, accused of using forced labour by Uyghur Muslims. Meanwhile, what are the so-called...
Greek police begin moving asylum seekers into new Lesbos camp
Greek police began moving hundreds of migrants stranded on the island of Lesbos into a new temporary tent camp on Thursday, more than a week after a fire razed Greece’s biggest migrant camp where they had been...