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Minsk
Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko held his presidential inauguration in secret on Wednesday after claiming victory in disputed polls that his opposition rivals have described as massively rigged.
A number of European countries including Germany responded by refusing to recognise him as the legitimate president of the ex-Soviet state as the EU has proposed sanctions over vo

AFP
Paris
Europe passed the milestone of 250000 deaths from coronavirus on Sunday as Israel and Australias second-largest city of Melbourne began to gradually ease their strict lockdowns.
European nations have ratcheted up restrictions on daily life to tackle soaring infections with a 44 percent increase in cases this week.
Night-time curfews on millions came into force in Fr

AFP
Paris
Thousands of people rallied in central Paris Sunday in a defiant show of solidarity with a teacher beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Demonstrators on the Place de la Republique held aloft posters declaring: No to totalitarianism of thought and I am a teacher in memory of the decapitated victim Samuel Paty.
Some chanted I am Samue

DP
London
Britians Queen Elizabeth II made her first public appearance since the beginning of the pandemic on Thursday visiting the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) near Salisbury together with Prince William the duke of Cambridge.
During her visit to the lab at Porton Down the queen met scientists conducting research supporting Britains response to the coronav

AFP
Ottawa
Canada on Thursday announced new sanctions against 31 Belarusian government officials in response to the crackdown on unprecedented protests there demanding strongman President Alexander Lukashenko resign.
Ottawa has already barred from Canada and frozen the assets of 11 Belarusian officials including Lukashenko and his son and advisor Viktor Lukashenko in concert with the

AFP
MADRID
The number of children treated in Spain for accidental poisonings after ingesting hand sanitising gels has soared during the pandemic the government said on Wednesday urging parents to keep the products out of reach.
There have been 874 reported cases of intoxications from hand sanitising gels so far this year compared to just 90 during all of 2019 the National Toxicolog

VIENNA: Austria will devote 17 billion euros ($20bn) to greening its rail network despite a historic budget deficit caused by the coronavirus pandemic the government announced Wednesday in its 2021 budget.
Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler from the Green party hailed the money as the biggest rail package Austria has ever seen.
The Greens have been in a coalition with the cent

AFP
Paris
European governments from The Netherlands to Spain imposed tough new virus controls on Wednesday closing bars and restaurants and enforcing local lockdowns in a bid to battle a surge in a new infections from the global pandemic.
With the virus still spreading worldwide with over one million deaths and nearly 40 million cases regions like Europe that suppressed the first ou

STOCKHOLM: Norways government on Tuesday blamedRussia for the recent hack of a number of email accounts linked to members and employees of the parliament in Oslo.
This is a serious incident that affects our most important democratic institution Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide said in a statement.
Based on the information the government has it is our assessment that Rus

MINSK: Belaruss exiled opposition leader on Tuesday gave strongman President Alexander Lukashenko a deadline of two weeks to resign halt violence and release political prisoners warning he would otherwise face a crippling general strike.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya who maintains she was the true winner of an August 9 election issued what she said was a peoples ultimatum demanding L