The number of patients being treated for Covid in hospitals across the UK has risen above 30,000. More than 1,000 deaths were reported in the latest 24-hour period, the highest since the peak of the first wave of the...
Hong Kong police arrest dozens of pro-democracy activists | DW News
Police in Hong Kong have arrested 53 pro-democracy activists. A government minister said they were detained for planning to “paralyze and overthrow” the city government. It’s the Chinese...
Two Polish men charged with planning Christchurch-style terror attack
Two Polish right-wing extremists have been charged with plotting a Christchurch-style terror attack to “prevent the Islamisation of Poland.”
President Aliyev declares Shusha Azerbaijan’s ‘cultural capital’
Shusha, known as “Karabakh’s pearl,” has been declared as Azerbaijan’s “cultural capital” by President Ilham Aliyev. The city was liberated by the Azerbaijani army after 28 years of...
Teachers rebuild classrooms in northern Syria
A group of volunteer teachers in northern Syria have built an underground school for about 300 displaced children from surrounding internally displaced camps.
COVID-19: Sir Keir Starmer says Labour will support the government, but that it acted too slowly
Sir Keir Starmer said Labour will support the government on increased coronavirus restrictions, but it had been too slow to act.