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Activists Urge Greece to Release Migrant Children  

Activists Urge Greece to Release Migrant Children  

Human rights activists are urging the government of Greece to release 276 unaccompanied migrant children from police detention cells. Human...

Remote Work May Be India’s Future, But Everyone Not On Board

Remote Work May Be India’s Future, But Everyone Not On Board

As she settled down to work from home when India announced a lockdown in March, Shweta Andrews thought exultantly “this...

EasyJet Hit by Cyber Attack, Hackers Access 9 mln Customers’ Details 

EasyJet Hit by Cyber Attack, Hackers Access 9 mln Customers’ Details 

British budget airline easyJet said on Tuesday hackers had accessed the email and travel details of around 9 million customers,...

China Threatens to Put American Tech Giants on Its ‘Unreliable Entity List’ 

China Threatens to Put American Tech Giants on Its ‘Unreliable Entity List’ 

China has responded to a new U.S. ban targeting telecom giant Huawei, threatening to retaliate through a series of countermeasures, including...

Rwandan Genocide Suspect’s Arrest in France Raises Questions

Rwandan Genocide Suspect’s Arrest in France Raises Questions

Human rights and survivor groups are cheering Saturday’s arrest in France of a top Rwandan genocide suspect, Felicien Kabuga. But...

Prominent French Actor Michel Piccoli, Arthouse Star, is Dead at 94

Prominent French Actor Michel Piccoli, Arthouse Star, is Dead at 94

French actor Michel Piccoli, a prolific screen star who appeared in landmark films by directors such as Luis Bunuel –...

Coronavirus Pandemic Risks Widening EU Splits 

Coronavirus Pandemic Risks Widening EU Splits 

At the start of their coronavirus lockdowns, European governments scrambled to shore up businesses and the public sector with subsidies —...

Some French Schools Close Again Due to COVID-19

Some French Schools Close Again Due to COVID-19

Some schools in France have closed just a week after reopening, after students or staff tested positive for COVID-19, the...

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,...