Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating a new ceasefire intended to halt fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The US-brokered truce was due to take effect a few hours ago. It was the...
Police attack anti-Lukashenko protesters with stun grenades in Belarus – BBC News
Mass protests continued in Belarus, as the opposition threatened a mass walkout by workers if President Alexander Lukashenko did not resign.
Coronavirus: ‘I caught Covid at my uncle’s funeral’ – BBC News
Binu, a construction worker in the southern Indian state of Kerala, sorely regrets attending his uncle’s funeral. He caught Covid-19 at the ceremony and spread it to at least another eight people.
Fresh protests erupt in Belarus ahead of national strike ultimatum
Tens of thousands of people marched through Minsk and other cities on Sunday, keeping pressure on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a day before the opposition threatens to launch a national strike if he refuses...
France recalls ambassador from Turkey after ‘unacceptable’ Erdogan comments
France on Saturday said it was recalling its envoy to Turkey for consultations after comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggesting French counterpart Emmanuel Macron needed a mental health check-up that...
Chileans to vote on changing Pinochet-era constitution
A year to the day after more than one million people thronged downtown Santiago in the biggest march of Chile’s social uprising, Chileans vote Sunday on whether to change the country’s dictatorship-era...
Europe sounds alarm over second wave of Covid infections as WHO warns of ‘exponential’ rise
The European Union’s disease control agency has joined frantic health workers to sound the alarm over a coronavirus surge across the continent, as the World Health Organization warned of an...