Theatres, cinemas, sports centres, swimming pools and discos are closing in the metropolis of Barcelona again to prevent a new spread of the dreaded coronavirus. The Catalan government determined this on Friday. It is thereby significantly expanding the area where corona measures are once again in force in Catalonia. […]
Prosecutors in South Korea have launched an investigation into the sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. The reason was the destruction of the liaison office just across the border in North Korea last month. A few days before the property was brought down, the sister, Kim Yo-jong, announced […]
Ghislaine Maxwell, 58, suspected of being an accessory to the child abuse of her ex Jeffrey Epstein (1953-2019), is being brought to trial. Besides not being guilty, she can also attempt to be released on bail. Her lawyers want her to be released on a $ 5 million bail […]
A judge in the Spanish region of Catalonia has turned against a very strict lockdown in and around the city of Lérida. The regional government quarantined the region a week ago in an attempt to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Now the government also wanted to oblige the […]
A Turkish court has paved the way to turn the world-famous Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, once a church and now a museum, back into a mosque. The judges overturned the Turkish government’s 1934 decision, which turned Hagia Sophia, a mosque for centuries, into a museum.
The stock exchange in Japan ended again with a loss on Wednesday. Investors handled the lower closing positions on Wall Street, where concerns about the economic recovery flared up again as a result of the sharp increase in corona infections in several US states. The other stock exchanges in […]
The Israeli government has been given the green light to take emergency measures to combat the coronavirus without the consent of parliament. MEPs only have to approve them afterwards. That must be done within seven days. The measure was supported by 29 of the 120 members of the Knesset, […]
France has been shocked by the brutal attack on a bus driver. He refused to take passengers in southern Bayonne who did not wear the mandatory masks and who did not have tickets. The driver, who is in his fifties, is said to have been repeatedly beaten and ended […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Jean Castex as the successor to retired Prime Minister Édouard Philippe. Insiders already tipped the former official as a possible successor to Philippe, who resigned with his government on Friday. 55-year-old Castex was recently in charge of easing the French measures against the […]
More than a hundred people died in a landslide in a jade mine in Myanmar. The authorities previously reported about 50 deaths, but have now adjusted that to 113. The miners collected stones in the crowded area near the town of Hpakant in the northern state of Kachin when […]