Italy reported over 1,000 daily coronavirus infections on Saturday for the first time since easing a strict countrywide lockdown in May as citizens return from summer vacations.
NATO denied claims it’s organizing a build-up of troops at Belarus’ border, as mass protests continue in Minsk against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s election victory two weeks ago.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who fell into a coma after a suspected poisoning, was flown to Germany for treatment Saturday following a day-long standoff over whether he would be allowed to leave a Russian hospital.
The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that came a month after it drew praise from the faithful and international opposition for similarly turning Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia into a Muslim house of prayer.
The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the coronavirus as a “once-in-a-century health crisis” that has been able to spread rapidly, similar to the 1918 flu pandemic, and said he hopes it'll be over in 2 years.
Valery Tsepkalo is asking the United States to recognize Svetlana Tikhanovskaya as the legitimately elected president of Belarus, a country that has been ruled for 26 years by strongman Alexander Lukashenko.
Russian doctors granted permission Friday for opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the critic of President Vladimir Putin who has been in a coma following allegations he was poisoned in a Kremlin-linked attack, to be flown to Germany for medical treatment.
As coronavirus continues to rampage through already embattled Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro has staunchly clamped down on all elements of civic society – going so far as to frame returnees as “bioterrorists” and a steep threat to national security.
A museum in Japan dedicated to the famed Iga clan of ninja was raided by thieves on Monday, who snuck in and stole more than 1 million yen ($9,400) from a heavy safe before vanishing undetected, according to multiple reports.
Iran state TV announced Thursday that the nation has unveiled two new missiles, one named after a top Iranian military official killed by U.S. drone strikes this year.