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Austria to enter lockdown, bring in mandatory vaccinations

Friday, 19 November 2021, 11:46 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said Friday that the country will go into a national lockdown to contain a fourth wave of coronavirus cases. Schallenberg said the lockdown will start...

Germany approves new measures amid warnings of virus spike

Friday, 19 November 2021, 09:44 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Germany approved new measures Thursday to rein in record coronavirus infections as Chancellor Angela Merkel called the pandemic situation in the country “very serious” and said it was...

Charity: 10 migrants suffocated on packed boat off Libya

Thursday, 18 November 2021, 07:45 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Ten people were found dead at the bottom of an overcrowded wooden boat packed with 99 surviving migrants and refugees who were rescued off Libya, the aid group Doctors Without Borders said. The...

Austrian unvaccinated lockdown starts amid COVID resurgence

Monday, 15 November 2021, 14:21 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Austria took what its leader called the “dramatic" step Monday of implementing a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people who haven't recently had COVID-19, perhaps the most drastic of a...

UK: 3 arrested over car explosion outside Liverpool hospital

Monday, 15 November 2021, 07:37 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

British police arrested three men under terrorism laws Sunday after a car exploded outside a hospital in Liverpool, killing one man and injuring another. Counter-terrorism police said the three...

Pete Buttigieg's star rises as $1T Biden agenda shifts toward him

Monday, 15 November 2021, 07:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary who holds the purse strings to much of President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure package, was holding forth with reporters on its impact...

Italian Coast Guard rescues 550 migrants from stormy seas

Sunday, 14 November 2021, 19:06 Last update: about 6 years ago

The Italian Coast Guard on Sunday safely brought to shore more than 550 migrants, many of them young men or boys from Egypt, from storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of...

Gaddafi's son announces candidacy for president of Libya

Sunday, 14 November 2021, 19:04 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi announced Sunday his candidacy for the country's presidential election next month, Libya's election agency said. Seif...

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