Top health ministry officials now in #quarantine – while #covid-19 infections continue to reach dangerous new heights. A bedouin #Israeli man, vindicated after years accused of being a terrorist, and zebrafish leading...
Forget what’s signed? UK threatens to override Brexit divorce deal
From the United Kingdom, home of great drama and great comedy comes the new season of Brexit. With five weeks to strike a trade deal, the suspense is already building. But critics contend there is nothing funny about...
What Brexit strategy for Johnson amid health crisis?
MEP Sajjad Karim & Paul Thomson from the British Conservatives in Paris argue over Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy. Pointing to a risk of “crashing out” of the EU without a deal, also discussing...
Belarus in crisis: Crackdown continues
Maxim Znak, who had worked as a lawyer for jailed presidential hopeful Viktor Babaryko, had been due to participate in a video call but did not show up, instead sending a message with the word “masks”...
US blacklists ex-Lebanese ministers over Hezbollah ties
Lebanon’s government stepped down last month amid popular anger over a massive blast at Beirut’s port on August 4 that killed 191 people, wounded thousands and ravaged large parts of the capital. France 24...
Gatherings of more than six banned in England as Covid-19 resurges
Britain’s government is banning gatherings of more than six people in England, as officials try to keep a lid on daily new coronavirus infections after a sharp spike across the U.K. that has been largely blamed on...
Trump intentionally downplayed Covid-19 despite knowing dangers, says new book
President Donald Trump talked privately about the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation the virus was no worse than the seasonal flu and insisting the government had it totally under...