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Typhoon lashes South Korea after battering Japanese islands

Monday, 7 September 2020, 09:37 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

A powerful typhoon damaged buildings, flooded roads and knocked out power to thousands of homes in South Korea on Monday after battering islands in southern Japan and injuring dozens of...

India now second worst-hit country by virus amid economic pain

Monday, 7 September 2020, 08:55 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

India's increasing coronavirus caseload made the Asian giant the pandemic's second-worst-hit country behind the United States on Monday as its efforts to head off economic disaster gain...

Pandemic turns summer into European tourism's leanest season

Monday, 7 September 2020, 06:58 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

Bruges mayor Dirk De fauw first realized something was desperately wrong with European tourism when on a brisk March morning he crossed the Burg square in front of the Gothic city hall and there was...

Multiple people injured in series of stabbings in England

Sunday, 6 September 2020, 09:10 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

British police say that multiple people have been injured in a series of stabbings in the central England city of Birmingham. West Midlands Police said officers were called to reports of a...

Migrants are moved from overcrowded Lampedusa facility to ship

Sunday, 6 September 2020, 06:38 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

With the help of a local fishing boat, hundreds of migrants were transferred on Saturday to a ferry from a tiny Italian island to relieve severe overcrowding during the pandemic at a residence for...

Covid-19 – Berlusconi admitted to hospital

Friday, 4 September 2020, 10:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

A senator who is a top aide to Silvio Berlusconi said the former premier was admitted to a Milan hospital early Friday as a precaution to monitor his coronavirus infection. Sen. Lucia Ronzulli...

France closes 22 schools due to infections

Friday, 4 September 2020, 10:42 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

France has closed 22 of its 62,000 schools since in-person classes resumed this week because of virus infections. Of those, 10 were on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, where access to...

20 new sexual assault counts filed against adult film actor

Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 11:58 Last update: about 7 years ago Associated Press

Adult film star Ron Jeremy was charged Monday with 20 new counts of rape or sexual assault involving 12 women and a teenage girl, authorities said. The charges came two months after the...

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