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 […]
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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 […]
Czech Republic President Milos Zeman has described the slogan “Black Lives Matter” as “racist”. He said that during a visit to the U.S. ambassador to Prague to celebrate U.S. National Day on July 4, Pravo newspaper reported on Wednesday. As a reason, the 75-year-old president argued that all lives […]
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has told parliament that he has no doubt that India is behind the attack on the stock market in Karachi. Several people died on Monday. The attackers are also among the dead. The Balochistan Liberation Army had already claimed the attack, British broadcaster BBC […]
Russia denies that it has offered Afghan Taliban fighters money to kill American soldiers. The Kremlin dismissed the charges as “lies” on Monday. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that the Russians were offering the Taliban bounties in exchange for killing American soldiers. Those promised bonuses would have resulted […]
