BRUSSELS: Brussels set out plans to reopen the EU’s internal borders on Thursday, even as the global coronavirus outbreak hit worrying new landmarks in the United States, Latin America and Russia. The European Commission recommended that the 27 EU members fully reopen their frontiers with each other on June 15 and with the western Balkans from July 1. The European…
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US troop pullout makes Europe rethink about American dependence The Trump administration is withdrawing troops from Germany while proactively establishing defense systems in Eastern Europe. This has created more divisions in Europe. A senior US official said on Friday that US President Donald Trump has ordered the US military to remove 9,500 soldiers from Germany. As close partners in the…
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe could face a surge of COVID-19 infections in the coming weeks caused by mass protests in the continent over the last days, politicians, European Union officials and experts said on Thursday. Tens of thousands of protesters have crowded together in Europe’s big cities in recent days to demonstrate against racism after the killing in the United…
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Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 8,987 in the past day, reaching 511,423, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Friday. According to the crisis center, the daily growth was 1.8% like a day earlier. New 1,714 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Moscow, 730 in the Moscow Region, 320 in the Sverdlovsk Region, 274 in St. Petersburg and 227 in the Voronezh…
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Five days ago, Russia suffered its worst oil spill in modern history after a fuel storage tank owned by Russian nickel and palladium mining company, Nornickel, collapsed and spilled 21,000 tonnes (about 158,000 barrels) of diesel into the nearby Ambarnaya river outside the Siberian city of Norilsk. The accident–which has drawn comparisons to the Exxon Valdez accident off Alaska in 1989– is being…
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Very few things have the power to stop the juggernaut that is elite European football in its tracks, but COVID-19 has rendered stadiums across the continent eerily silent. Yet even with the beautiful game to return to four of Europe’s ‘Big Five’ leagues by the end of the month – the English Premier League, Spain’s La Liga and Serie A…
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It’s uncertain as to whether British tourists will be able to have a summer holiday this year amid coronavirus travel restrictions. This week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he “absolutely wouldn’t rule it out” on the prospect of getting some foreign travel back up and running. At present, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s messaging remains the same and advises against…
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BRUSSELS — For decades, even when the 2008 financial crisis threatened to blow the bloc apart, the European Union’s wealthier nations resisted the notion of collective debt. But the coronavirus has so fundamentally damaged the bloc’s economy that it is now forcing European leaders to consider the sort of unified and sweeping response once thought unworkable. The European Commission, the…
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PARIS As parks and public spaces opened across France on Saturday, different figures related to the novel coronavirus rose and fell. The latest statistics were reported by France’s Ministry of Health. A total of 57 fatalities were registered in hospitals on Saturday, a drop by six cases compared to Friday’s figures. The total number of fatalities in hospitals overall has…
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The Southwest Monsoon has arrived over Kerala, exactly on the day it was predicted to hit the coastal state Conditions have favourable for the onset of the monsoon over Kerala due to the formation of Cyclone ‘Nisarga’ over Arabian Sea NEW DELHI : Marking the commencement of the four-month long rainy season in India, the southwest monsoon hit Kerala today, coinciding…
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