#Coronavirus infections topped 30 million around the globe on Thursday as the World Health Organization warned of “alarming rates of transmission” across Europe and cautioned against shortening quarantine...
Belarus unrest: UN Human Rights Council debates violence & arrests
Protesters are being tortured in police stations across Belarus, where authorities have failed to open investigations, human rights experts said on Wednesday, holding a press conference in Geneva where alleged victims...
Belarus to close borders with Poland and Lithuania, put troops on alert
Belarus’ president, beleaguered by six weeks of mass protests demanding his resignation, on Thursday announced he was putting troops on high alert and closing the country’s borders with Poland and Lithuania.
Lesbos police move migrants into new temporary refugee camp Kara Tepe | DW News
Greek police on Thursday began moving hundreds of migrants stranded on the island of Lesbos to a new temporary camp. It comes more than a week after a fire razed Moria, Greece’s biggest refugee camp, to the ground...
Record-setting wildfires are out of control in the US, Brazil and Siberia – BBC News
Record-setting wildfires are out of control across the West coast of the US, Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands, and parts of Siberia.
Lesbos: Greek police move migrants to new camp after Moria fire – BBC News
Police on the Greek island of Lesbos are moving thousands of migrants and refugees from the fire-gutted Moria camp to a new tent city nearby. Seventy female officers in protective suits were flown in to organise the...