Day: November 3, 2020

The Spanish Parliament voted to extend the country’s state of emergency for six more months on Thursday as the Health Ministry reported another record surge in coronavirus cases. Spain’s leftist government has received approval from parliament to extend a national state of emergency until May. The measure, which was introduced last Sunday as part of efforts to halt the spread of coronavirus, includes a curfew, and gives regional governments increased powers to implement their own restrictions. The present state of emergency expires on November 9th, and on Thursday the government…

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French President Emmanuel Macron announced new lockdown rules amid a surge in Covid-19 cases through a televised address to the nation. French President Emmanuel Macron ordered his country into a new month-long, nationwide lockdown Wednesday aimed at stopping a fast-rising tide of virus patients filling French hospitals, but said schools and some workplaces will stay open. Not only, France, but several other countries in Europe are witnessing the second of coronavirus with daily cases rising much faster compared to past few weeks. France announces new month-long lockdown | What we…

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BERLIN/PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered their countries back into lockdown on Wednesday, as a massive second wave of coronavirus infections threatened to overwhelm Europe before the winter. World stock markets went into a dive in response to the news that Europe’s biggest economies were imposing nationwide restrictions almost as severe as the ones that drove the global economy this year into its deepest recession in generations.“The virus is circulating at a speed that not even the most pessimistic forecasts had anticipated,” Macron said in…

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The coronavirus situation in Russia is continuing to deteriorate, Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova told a meeting on Wednesday of senior government officials and President Vladimir Putin. Golikova said there was a critical situation in 16 Russian regions, where hospital beds were at more than 90% of capacity. Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday it would send army medics to a region in the Urals hit by a surge in COVID-19 cases, after doctors there made a public plea to Putin for help. The Russian president Putin…

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The restriction is one of a number of measures announced at the end of last week by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, as the country attempts to bring escalating Covid-19 infections under control.These are the details to knowDenmark announces new coronavirus restrictions: Here’s what you need to know.From October 29th, Denmark’s face mask requirements – previously only in force on public transport and in restaurants – now apply at all public indoor places. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced at a briefing on Friday evening a number of new restrictions in response…

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It was the third attack in two months in France that authorities have attributed to Muslim extremists, including the beheading of a teacher. Nice,France – An attacker armed with a knife killed three people inside a church on Thursday in the southern French city of Nice, prompting the government to raise its security alert status to the maximum level hours before a nationwide covid-19 lockdown. A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist incident at a church in the French city of Nice…

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France is increasing security at religious sites as the interior minister said Tuesday that the country faces a “very high” risk of terrorist threats, amid growing geopolitical tensions following the beheading of a history teacher Samuel Paty who showed his class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. France is trying to quell anger in the Arab world amid anti-France protests and calls for boycotts of French goods in response to President Emmanuel Macron’s firm stance against Islamism in the wake of the Oct. 16 beheading. European allies have supported Macron, while Muslim-majority countries are angered…

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Europe, but particularly France and Germany — the two motor nations of the continent — are holding their collective breath for the outcome of Tuesday’s American presidential election. They recognize that the future of the trans-Atlantic relationship, the very nature of the Atlantic alliance, which has preserved the peace in Europe for three-quarters of a century, hangs in the balance. However, there is a dawning recognition in both nations that some elements of a decades-long trans-Atlantic partnership may be all but irrevocably lost — regardless of who wins in America…

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