News from Aruba, St. Maarten, Curacao,Netherland Antilles
A 20-year-old scuba diver died yesterday after being attacked by a shark off the coast of Australia’s Queensland state, authorities said. In this image from a video, the covered body is placed on a cliff near Indian Head, Australia. Source:…
At least five people were killed and more than eight others wounded when a government security checkpoint was bombed in Baidoa, Somalia’s administrative capital of Southwest State, on Saturday, witnesses and security officials said. Officials in Baidoa, about 250 kilometers …
Catalonia enforced a new lockdown on more than 200,000 people on Saturday, after several new outbreaks of the coronavirus were detected. Residents in Segria, which includes the city of Lleida in northeast Spain, will not be able to leave the …
Coronavirus: Catalonia tightens restrictions on 200,000 residents Read more »
People not wearing masks against the novel coronavirus should be refused service in enclosed public spaces, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday, as his government moves to make it obligatory. The new measure goes into effect from midnight as part …
Iran’s Rouhani calls for mask order to be enforced Read more »
In the last few months I’ve found myself returning, again and again, to a phrase that I associate with the project Refugee Tales and its campaign to end the indefinite detention of asylum seekers: counting up. When prisoners are given …
The UK once welcomed refugees – now we detain them indefinitely. It must end Read more »
SHANGHAI/BEIJING: China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Saturday that the so-called "G4" of swine flu virus is not new and does not infect or sicken humans and animals easily, rebuffing a study published earlier this week. That …
China says G4 swine flu virus not new; does not infect humans easily Read more »
The Louvre in Paris, the world’s most visited museum and home to the Mona Lisa, reopens on Monday but with coronavirus restrictions in place and parts of the complex closed to visitors. ……
The only time during the whole of the coronavirus pandemic that Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has looked genuinely shaken was during his weekly Facebook Live session on the evening of June 18th. Appearing dishevelled in a baggy anorak that contrasted …
The Bolsonaro administration’s ticking time-bomb Read more »
London (CNN)For more than 70 years, the transatlantic alliance has served as the unshakable foundation of European stability and underpinned the values of the US-led Western order. In 2020, it appears that relationship is being rethought on both sides of …
Cracks in the Trump-Europe relationship are turning into a chasm Read more »
A Saudi consulate worker in Istanbul told a Turkish court on Friday he had been asked to light a tandoor oven less than an hour after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the building where he was killed. Zeki Demir, a …