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Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions in Parliament in London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has strongly defended his controversial plan to override sections of the Brexit deal that he negotiated with the European Union, arguing that the bloc has an extreme interpretation of the treaty that could jeopardize the future of the U.K. (AP)

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UK's Johnson faces rebellion over plan to break Brexit treaty

The EU has ramped up preparations for a no-deal Brexit, which would be chaotic for business, markets and nearly $1...

14 Sept 2020 3:49 PM IST

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. (AP File)

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Germany says French, Swedish labs confirm Navalny's Novichok poisoning

The poisoning has brought tensions between Russia and Germany to new heights, fuelling calls for the Nord Stream 2...

14 Sept 2020 3:18 PM IST

People enjoying the autumn sunshine on Primrose Hill, London, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020. From Monday, social gatherings of more than six people will be banned in England both indoors and outdoors and Boris Johnson hinted that such restrictions will potentially remain in place until or through Christmas. (AP)

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COVID infections in Europe to spike in Oct, Nov: WHO

The number of cases in Europe has risen sharply in recent weeks, especially in Spain and France

14 Sept 2020 12:14 PM IST

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny casting his vote at a polling station during to the Moscow city Duma election in Moscow. - Tests carried out on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny provide clear proof that he was poisoned by a chemical nerve agent, the German government said Wednesday, September 2, 2020, demanding explanations from Moscow. (AFP File)

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Russians vote in local elections targeted by Kremlin critic Navalny

Navalny had hoped to undermine United Russia's grip on regional power through the election before he fell gravely ill

13 Sept 2020 12:41 PM IST

A laboratory technician handles capped vials as part of filling and packaging tests for the large-scale production and supply of the University of Oxfords COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222, conducted on a high-performance aseptic vial filling line on September 11, 2020 at the Italian biologics manufacturing facility of multinational corporation Catalent in Anagni, southeast of Rome, during the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

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Oxford and AstraZeneca resume coronavirus vaccine trial

The university confirmed the restart across all of its UK trial sites after regulators gave the go-ahead following the...

13 Sept 2020 9:40 AM IST

Refugees and migrants from the Moria camp protest near Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, on September 12, 2020, a few days after a fire destroyed the Moria refugee camp. - Tension was simmering on September 12 on Greeces Lesbos island as thousands of asylum seekers remained homeless four days after Europes largest migrant camp was destroyed by fire. Round-the-clock efforts to find temporary shelter for over 11,000 people including thousands of children were still inadequate, rights groups said as local authorities continued to oppose camp reconstruction plans. (AFP)

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Teargas fired during migrant protests on Greek island of Lesbos

Thousands of asylum seekers have been sleeping rough on roads since Wednesday when the Moria camp was destroyed in...

12 Sept 2020 4:38 PM IST

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22-year-old Slovenia woman jailed for cutting off hand for insurance...

She left the hand behind rather than bringing it with her to the hospital, hoping to receive higher compensation for...

12 Sept 2020 3:23 PM IST

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a cabinet meeting in Minsk, Belarus. (AP)

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Belarus' Lukashenko set to visit Russia as protests continue in...

The post-election protests have attracted the biggest crowds on Sundays, when up to 200,000 people have flooded the...

12 Sept 2020 10:06 AM IST

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (centre). (AP File)

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Russian police seek to question Navalny in Germany

Navalny's posioning case has prompted international calls for Russia to carry out a transparent investigation or risk...

11 Sept 2020 2:17 PM IST

An activist from the Extinction Rebellion climate change group shows a message written on her hand as she is taken away in a police van after being arrested for locking herself to railings outside UKs parliament in central London on September 10, 2020 on the final day of their new series of mass rebellions. - Climate change protesters have put on 10 days of demonstrations, held across the country by activist group Extinction Rebellion. (AFP)

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Bare-chested women lock themselves to UK parliament in climate protest

On Saturday, protesters blockaded distribution of two newspapers they accuses of failing to accurately report on climate...

11 Sept 2020 10:19 AM IST

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (AFP)

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Navalny's condition improving, police guard stepped up

The Kremlin critic is being treated in Berlin's Charite hospital after falling ill on a Russian domestic flight last...

10 Sept 2020 3:15 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)

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Thousands flee as Greece's main migrant camp gutted by huge blaze

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

9 Sept 2020 3:23 PM IST