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UK extends truck driver visa program as fuel crisis persists

Saturday, 2 October 2021, 16:22 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

The British government has extended an emergency visa program for truck drivers as fuel shortages showed few signs of abating Saturday, particularly in London and the southeast of England. In an...

Updated: Libyan forces round up 4,000 migrants in crackdown

Saturday, 2 October 2021, 07:19 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Libyan security forces on Friday detained at least 4,000 African migrants, including women and children, two officials and a refugee group said. The authorities described the raid as part of a crackdown...

Australia to lift 18-month Covid-19 travel ban next month

Saturday, 2 October 2021, 07:17 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Australia has outlined plans to lift a pandemic ban on its vaccinated citizens traveling overseas from November. But no date has yet been set for welcoming international tourists back. Travel...

Covid-19 deaths eclipse 700,000 in US as delta variant rages

Saturday, 2 October 2021, 07:15 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

It’s a milestone that by all accounts didn’t have to happen this soon. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 700,000 late Friday — a number greater than the population of...

Merck says experimental pill cuts worst effects of Covid-19

Friday, 1 October 2021, 12:38 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Merck & Co. said Friday that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials...

Italian ex-mayor who welcomed migrants sentenced to 13 years

Thursday, 30 September 2021, 15:16 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

A court in southern Italy on Thursday convicted the former mayor of a tiny town dubbed “the town of welcome” of aiding illegal immigration and sentenced him to 13 years and two months in...

Former Nazi camp secretary in German trial, 96, on the run

Thursday, 30 September 2021, 14:08 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

A former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was being sought on an arrest warrant Thursday after skipping the planned start of her trial in Germany on more than 11,000...

686 migrants dock in Lampedusa in biggest arrival in years

Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 10:47 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

A rusty, overloaded fishing boat carrying 686 people docked on the island of Lampedusa in the single biggest arrival of migrants in Italy in years, amid new diplomatic efforts by Mediterranean...

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