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Churches Across Italy Reopen With New Rules 

Churches Across Italy Reopen With New Rules 

Churches across Italy prepared to reopen Monday with new rules at the end of a more than 2-month lockdown due...

Britain’s Premier League Clubs to Resume Non-Contact Training  

Britain’s Premier League Clubs to Resume Non-Contact Training  

Premier League clubs agreed Monday on the measures that will allow non-contact practice sessions to resume during the coronavirus pandemic.The...

Students in Belgium Return to School After 2-Month COVID Break 

Students in Belgium Return to School After 2-Month COVID Break 

After some schools went through a “dry run” on Friday, more of Belgium’s schools opened Monday as the nation took...

Brazil Overtakes Spain, Italy In Number of COVID Cases

Brazil Overtakes Spain, Italy In Number of COVID Cases

Brazil become the country with the fourth-largest number of coronavirus infections in the world, surpassing Spain and Italy. Overnight, the South American country had more...

Pirates Attack British-flagged Tanker off Yemen

Pirates Attack British-flagged Tanker off Yemen

Pirates attacked a British-flagged oil tanker off the coast of Yemen Sunday, causing some minor damage but no injuries.Operators of...

US, European Leaders Weigh Reopening Risks Without a Vaccine

US, European Leaders Weigh Reopening Risks Without a Vaccine

On a weekend when many pandemic-weary people emerged from weeks of lockdown, leaders in the U.S. and Europe weighed the...

Analysis: Privacy Worries Could Derail Virus Tracking Plans

Analysis: Privacy Worries Could Derail Virus Tracking Plans

Worries about the breach of individual privacy rights could undermine Louisiana’s ability to quickly pinpoint those who have encountered someone...

Albanian Police Move to Demolish Country’s National Theater

Albanian Police Move to Demolish Country’s National Theater

Albanian police clashed with demonstrators, including artists and opposition supporters Sunday who were protesting the demolition of the country’s National...

May 17 Is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia

May 17 Is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia

May 17 is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.First observed in 2004, the day was designed to focus “attention...

Europe at Odds as US, China Fight Over Pandemic at UN

Europe at Odds as US, China Fight Over Pandemic at UN

The clash between China and the United States over COVID-19 has caused a rift between European nations at the U.N....

Fears Mount Over Migrants Dying ‘Out of Sight’ in Mediterranean

Fears Mount Over Migrants Dying ‘Out of Sight’ in Mediterranean

More and more migrants are crossing, Europe is closing its ports and no humanitarian ships are carrying out rescues. As...

Serbia Deploys Army to ‘Secure’ 3 Migrant Camps

Serbia Deploys Army to ‘Secure’ 3 Migrant Camps

Serbia has deployed troops near a town not far from the border with Croatia, where hundreds of migrants hoping to...

Bosnians Protest Mass in Sarajevo for Nazi-Allied Soldiers

Bosnians Protest Mass in Sarajevo for Nazi-Allied Soldiers

Thousands of Bosnians, many wearing masks, demonstrated Saturday against a Mass in Sarajevo for Croatia’s Nazi-allied soldiers and civilians killed...

Lawyer: Iran Sentences Dual National Academic to 6 Years

Lawyer: Iran Sentences Dual National Academic to 6 Years

An Iranian court has sentenced a prominent researcher with dual French-Iranian citizenship to six years in prison on security charges,...

Homophobic Crimes on the Rise in France, Data Show

Homophobic Crimes on the Rise in France, Data Show

Homophobic attacks and insults in France rose by 36 percent last year, according to figures released Saturday by the Interior...

Fresh COVID Outbreak in Greek Roma Camp Sparks Violence

Fresh COVID Outbreak in Greek Roma Camp Sparks Violence

Greek police have reinforced security around a community of Roma in central Greece as government health officials prepare to enter...

Greece Reopens 500 Beaches as It Relaxes Lockdown Rules

Greece Reopens 500 Beaches as It Relaxes Lockdown Rules

Greece has opened up 500 of its beaches as the country eases lockdown restrictions put in place during the COVID-19...

France Arrests Rwandan Businessman Wanted in Connection With 1994 Genocide

France Arrests Rwandan Businessman Wanted in Connection With 1994 Genocide

French police have arrested a man accused of funding militias that massacred hundreds of thousands of people in Rwanda 1994...

French-Iranian Academic Sentenced to 6 Years in Iranian Prison

French-Iranian Academic Sentenced to 6 Years in Iranian Prison

French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah has been sentenced to six-years in prison by an Iranian court, according to her lawyer.The lawyer,...

Montenegrin Priests Released from Detention

Montenegrin Priests Released from Detention

A Montenegrin prosecutor on Friday ordered the release from detention of a Serbian Orthodox Church bishop and eight priests, whose...

US Donating 200 Ventilators to Russia

US Donating 200 Ventilators to Russia

The United States will donate 200 medical ventilators to Moscow via U.S. military transport beginning next week, to aid against...

Facebook Data Help Track COVID-19 Spread

Facebook Data Help Track COVID-19 Spread

Facebook likely knows a lot about you already. So would you fill out a survey on the social media site...