More foreign countries have challenged Lukashenko’s legitimacy as president, rejecting the results of the elections in Belarus. At the same time, the head of the opposition, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, announced her...
Will Russia protect the President of Belarus?
Lithuania is concerned at the possibility of Russia using the crisis in Belarus to intervene with military forces, its foreign minister has told Sky News. Linas Linkevicius said Russia would sacrifice a lot if it chose...
Volunteers in Idlib help bolster limited medical services
In Syria, an acute shortage of medical staff and facilities has complicated the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The United Nations says it’s put people in the conflict zone at high risk- especially the...
Dramatic exams U-turn with grades now based on teacher assessments – BBC News
In an extraordinary and humiliating change of policy, the UK government has announced that the exam results of hundreds of thousands of pupils will now be based on their teacher assessments — rather than grades...
Children in deprived areas face widening “education gap” due to lockdown – BBC News
Lockdown has hit deprived parts of the UK particularly hard. Now research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests that in England it’s widened the education gap between the richest and poorest primary school...
Coronavirus resurgent in Europe, and different to before
The coronavirus is resurgent in Europe, with France recording more than 3000 new infections for the second day in a row on Sunday. Antoine Flahault, epidemiologist at the University of Geneva, says the epidemiological...
Spain’s former king Juan Carlos is in the UAE, palace confirms
SUBSCRIBEFormer monarch Juan Carlos I of Spain has been in the United Arab Emirates since he left his country amid a growing financial scandal, the Spanish royal household said Monday, resolving a two-week mystery and...