A third Czech health minister has been fired since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year.Jan Blatny, who had held the office since October, was dismissed by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on Wednesday.Petr Arenberger,…
Israelis stepped out into the streets unmasked for the first time in a year on Sunday amid a further easing of COVID-19 safety restrictions.The government has relaxed the rule on mask-wearing outdoors in response to…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Monday that rocket attacks by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip into Israel were an “unacceptable escalation”, after violent confrontations with Palestinians in Jerusalem.Price…
Text sizeAaAaResearchers in Singapore are engineering venus flytrap plants to help them learn more about diseased crops.Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has created a setup for the "robo-plants" using the application of electrodes which are then…
Hundreds of protesters have been gathering nightly outside the Brooklyn Center police station near Minneapolis since former officer Kim Potter, who is white, shot a 20-year-old Black motorist during a traffic stop on Sunday. Demonstrators…
By Nathan Allen and Emma PinedoMADRID (Reuters) – Police in Catalonia were preparing for hordes of pandemic-weary revellers to hit the streets when a national state of emergency expires on Sunday, while regional leaders across…
Danish authorities have been accused of putting the futures of dozens of refugee children at risk by threatening to expel them to Syria, despite warnings that it is not safe to do so.In a statement…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s fourth-largest city faces prospects of its second snap lockdown in two weeks, officials said on Sunday, after a hotel quarantine security guard in Perth and two of his housemates tested positive…
The European Union, UK and the United States have pledged to help India as the country battles a devastating surge of COVID-19 infections.For the fourth straight day, India on Sunday set a global daily record…
By Gabrielle Tétrault-FarberMOSCOW (Reuters) – Decathlete Andrei Krauchanka says that seeing hundreds of people detained for their political views in his native Belarus has been as painful as competing with a torn Achilles tendon.To support…
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