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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (AFP)World
Russia-'s Navalny starts speaking as condition improves

Navalny’s police protection had been stepped up in the expectation that he would be receiving more visitors as his...

10 Sept 2020 3:14 PM IST

Migrants sit inside the burnt Moria Camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on September 9, 2020, after a major fire. - Thousands of asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos fled for their lives early September 9, as a huge fire ripped through the camp of Moria, the countrys largest and most notorious migrant facility. Over 12,000 men, women and children ran in panic out of containers and tents and into adjoining olive groves and fields as the fire destroyed most of the overcrowded, squalid camp. The blaze started just hours after the migration ministry said that 35 people had tested positive at the camp. (AFP)World
Thousands flee as fire rips through Greece-'s crowded refugee camps

The blaze started just hours after the migration ministry said that 35 people had tested positive at the camp

9 Sept 2020 3:22 PM IST

File photo Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. (AP)World
Russia says Navalny -'disinformation campaign-' being used for new...

G7 foreign ministers had recenly demanded that Russia quickly find and prosecute those behind Navalny-'s suspected...

9 Sept 2020 1:45 PM IST

Maria Kolesnikova, one of Belarus opposition leaders, gestures during a rally in Minsk, Belarus. Maria Kolesnikova, a leading opposition activist and several other members of an opposition council in Belarus went missing Monday Sept. 7, 2020, and their colleagues feared they were detained as part of the authorities efforts to squelch nearly a month of protests against the re-election of the countrys authoritarian leader. (AP)World
Belarus opposition leader tears up passport to avoid expulsion

Kolesnikova, one of the last figures still in the country leading mass protests against President Lukashenko, was...

9 Sept 2020 11:23 AM IST

Police guard a cordon on Edmund Street following a major stabbing incident in the centre of Birmingham, central England, on September 6, 2020. - British police declared a \major incident\ early on September 6 after multiple people were stabbed in the centre of Englands second city Birmingham. Violence broke out at about 12:30 am (2330 GMT Saturday) in and around the Arcadian Centre, a popular venue filled with restaurants, nightclubs and bars. (AFP)World
27-year-old charged with murder over series of stabbings in Birmingham

The stabbings happened in four locations over a two-hour period in the early hours of Sunday morning in the central city...

9 Sept 2020 9:23 AM IST

A woman covers herself by an old Belarusian national flag reacts as opposition supporters gather in front of police line toward the Independence Palace, residence of the President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020. Sundays demonstration marked the beginning of the fifth week of daily protests calling for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenkos resignation in the wake of allegedly manipulated elections. (AP)World
Scores detained as fresh protests hit Belarus capital

Demonstrations have carried on throughout the four weeks since the election, gaining in size on the weekends

7 Sept 2020 1:29 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Britain left the now 27-nation EU on January 31, 2020, three-and-a-half years after the country narrowly voted to end more than four decades of membership.(via AFP)World
Boris Johnson gives October 15 deadline for Brexit deal

The European Union, in turn, accuses Britain of failing to negotiate seriously

7 Sept 2020 9:59 AM IST

Police officers stand at a cordon in Hurst Street in Birmingham after a number of people were stabbed in the city centre, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020. British police say that multiple people have been injured in a series of stabbings in a busy nightlife area of the central England city of Birmingham.(AP)World
UK police declare -'major incident-' after series of stabbing in...

Footage aired on TV news channels showed large areas of the city centre cordoned off as officers wearing forensic suits...

6 Sept 2020 2:19 PM IST

Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol, center left, opposition candidate Ilya Yashin, center right, candidate Ivan Zhdanov, right, and opposition candidate Alexei Minyalo walk during a protest in Moscow, Russia. They work with the organization of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma in a Berlin hospital after suffering what German authorities say was a poisoning with a chemical nerve agent while traveling in Siberia on Aug. 20. (AP)World
Germany threatens sanctions on Russia over Navalny poisoning

The Kremlin has denied responsibility for the attack and said that Germany is yet to share any findings with Moscow-'s...

6 Sept 2020 11:56 AM IST

Francisco EspaƒÂ±a, 60, is surrounded by members of his medical team as he looks at the Mediterranean sea from a promenade next to the \Hospital del Mar\ in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. A hospital in Barcelona is studying how short trips to the beach may help COVID-19 patients recover from long and traumatic intensive hospital care.(AP)World
Spanish doctors hope beach trips can help ICU virus patients

A medical team at Hospital del Mar — the Hospital of the Seas — is seeing if beach trips can help COVID-19 patients...

5 Sept 2020 2:56 PM IST

Russia on Tuesday, Aug. 11 became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens despite international skepticism about injections that have not completed clinical trials and were studied in only dozens of people for less than two months. (AP)World
Russian vaccine shows signs of immune response: Lancet report

The authors also noted that participants were only followed for 42 days and there was no placebo or control vaccine used

5 Sept 2020 12:58 PM IST

A man holds a poster with a portrait of Alexei Navalny reading \Navalny was poisoned, we know who is to blame, Alexei you must live\ during an unsanctioned protest in support of Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region, in Khabarovsk, 6,100 kilometers (3,800 miles) east of Moscow, Russia. (AP)World
Answer to international investigators: NATO tells Russia over Navalny...

German authorities have said tests showed that Navalny had been poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok...

5 Sept 2020 12:20 PM IST

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