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Elite sport will continue to be allowed behind closed doors despite a new month-long lockdown being imposed across England by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday. The strict series of measures reintroduced to try and curb rising coronavirus infection rates will begin from Thursday, November 5 and last until December 2. Pubs and restaurants will shut unless serving takeaway food, while all leisure and entertainment venues and non-essential shops will close. However, Culture Secretary Oliver... Читать дальше...

An attacker armed with a sawn-off shotgun on Saturday wounded a Greek Orthodox priest in a shooting in the French city of Lyon, a police source said. Nikolaos Kakavelaki, 52, was closing his church mid-afternoon when he was attacked and is now in a serious condition in hospital, said the source, who asked not to be named. The attacker fled the scene but later Lyon's public prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet announced that a suspect had been arrested. "A person who could correspond to the description given... Читать дальше...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced a new month-long lockdown for England after being warned that without tough action a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks.

Britain's foreign ministry said on Saturday it welcomed Qatar's announcement that it would charge those behind "illegal" gynaecological searches performed on female travellers at the Gulf state's main airport. Women on 10 flights out of Doha, including two British women, were subject to the examinations as authorities searched for the mother of a newborn child abandoned in an airport bathroom on October 2. Qatar, which has faced international condemnation over the incident, said on Friday that... Читать дальше...

The Dutch government on Saturday suspended plans to help beleaguered national carrier KLM with a multi-billion-euro bailout package after unions declined to sign a deal involving a five-year pay-cut plan. The move puts the future of the Dutch arm of Air France-KLM into jeopardy, which said it would not remain afloat without a massive government injection to save KLM, the world's oldest airline hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. "The planned state aid is not going through. It's disappointing... Читать дальше...

Lewis Hamilton heaped praise on his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas on Saturday after the Finn had beaten him to pole position for Sunday's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The six-time world champion, who was seeking to extend his record number of poles to 98, was outpaced in the final seconds of a tight session, reversing the roles they had played a week earlier in Portugal. Asked about the quality of Bottas as a racing team-mate, Hamilton said his result on Saturday spoke for itself. "I don't really need to say much more," said Hamilton. Читать дальше...

A frustrated Alex Albon advised officials to "just put some gravel down" to define track limits after having eight laps deleted at Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix practice and qualifying on Saturday. In a topsy-turvy qualifying session, the under-pressure London-born Thai driver grabbed sixth place on the grid with a last-gasp lap on soft tyres after his first run on mediums was disallowed. "Honestly, I don't know why we're changing different corners and different track limits," said Albon, when asked about his problems. Читать дальше...

Police stepped in Saturday to shield health workers gathered in Bern to demand better working conditions, after protesters against fresh virus restrictions tried to disrupt their demonstration. Around 1,000 health care professionals gathered in the Swiss capital Saturday afternoon to cap off a week of protests across the country demanding better pay and other conditions amid the pandemic. But their authorised and peaceful protest was briefly disrupted by around 100 people taking part in an unauthorised... Читать дальше...

An attacker armed with a sawn-off shotgun on Saturday wounded an Orthodox priest in a shooting in the French city of Lyon before fleeing, said a police source. A suspect has been arrested, the city's public prosecutor said, but could not confirm if the person was the assailant.

President Emmanuel Macron said that he could understand if Muslims were shocked by cartoons of the prophet Mohammad, as French authorities on Saturday sought to ascertain if a young Tunisian suspected of killing three people in a knife rampage inside a Nice church had outside help

Once a solid Republican stronghold, Arizona is now up for grabs. This is due in part to changing demographics with an influx of new residents from more liberal states like California. But there's also a massive backlash against President Donald Trump from white suburban women and especially young Latinos of voting age. They're fired up and mobilised against the president's harsh immigration policies. Our reporters went to the border with Mexico to see how the construction of Donald Trump’s promised wall is moving along.

Sean Connery, who rose to super-stardom after playing James Bond in the 1960s and early 1970s, has died at the age of 90, his family told the BBC.

On October 24, a video published on Persian-language media showed Iranian police using tear gas and an electroshock weapon on a man who was handcuffed to a pole and could not move. The video was shared widely on social media such as Telegram, with users calling the man “Iran’s George Floyd”. In the aftermath of the video, the man, Mehrdad Sepehri, died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

Iraqi authorities reopened Baghdad's Tahrir Square and Al-Jumhuriyah bridge on Saturday, symbolically ending more than a year of demonstrations in epicentres of an anti-government protest movement. Protester tents have been dismantled at the Tahrir roundabout, now again circled by cars, and the towering concrete walls used to close off the Al-Jumhuriyah bridge across the Tigris River have been removed. Tahrir Square and its massive Freedom Monument was at the heart of the movement that brought... Читать дальше...

In the third in our series of reports on America's forgotten voters, we are in Nebraska's third congressional district where Donald Trump won 74 percent of the vote in 2016, making it one of the "reddest" parts of the country. For the region's few Democrats, merely expressing their political views can be daring.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering imposing a new lockdown across England within days following warnings his localised restrictions strategy has failed to curb soaring coronavirus rates, reports said Saturday. Johnson is expected to announce on Monday the stringent new rules closing all but "essential" stores, while keeping schools, colleges and universities open, The Times said. The measures could come into effect as early as Wednesday and last until December 1, though no final decisions have yet been reached, it added. Читать дальше...

Europeans may be preoccupied by their own troubles at home – but many minds are also focused on events across the Atlantic, with the US presidential election approaching on November 3. The result will have direct consequences in Europe: will there be four more years of Donald Trump, who's described the European Union as a foe and launched a determined trade war with the bloc? Or a new path with Joe Biden? And what impact will the election have on the course of Brexit and the UK's new relationship with the EU? Читать дальше...

Tens of thousands of revellers joined a gay pride rally through the streets of Taiwan's capital on Saturday in a colourful celebration of equality made possible by the island's successful vanquishing of the coronavirus. Taiwan is at the vanguard of the burgeoning gay rights movement in Asia and became the first place in the region to allow same-sex marriage in May 2019 after a bruising political fight. It has also achieved remarkable success against the coronavirus, recording more than 200 days in a row without a single local infection. Читать дальше...

French authorities were on Saturday seeking to ascertain if a young Tunisian suspected of killing three people in a knife rampage inside a Nice church had outside help as police arrested a third man who could have been associated with him. Brahim Issaoui, 21, only arrived in Europe from Tunisia last month and, according to prosecutors, killed the sexton, a Brazilian woman and a French woman in the attack in the Notre-Dame Basilica on Thursday morning. The attack, which the government has described... Читать дальше...

Slovakia on Saturday begins a programme to screen its entire population for coronavirus with antigen tests in what would be a global first, but critics have said the plan is poorly thought out.

Sixty years ago, most of the French colonies in sub-Saharan Africa became independent nations. Between January 1 and December 31, 1960, some 17 countries, including 14 under French rule, gained their statehood. Senegal's first post-independence president, Léopold Sédar Senghor, referred to 1960 as the "magical year", while others hailed a peaceful decolonisation process.

A third man has been detained for questioning in connection with the knife attack on a church in the southern French city of Nice that left three people dead, a legal source said Saturday.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has formally asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to begin "urgent" consultations on providing security amid a conflict with Azerbaijan, the foreign ministry said Saturday.

Palestinian shoemaker Imad Mohammad makes handcrafted footwear with a difference: they are stamped with the names of the US and French presidents in Arabic calligraphy to show his disapproval of them. "Shoes touch the ground, dust and dirt. So if we write someone's name on them and that also gets dirty, then it shows... how you value that person," Mohammad told AFP. He said he chose to stamp the name of US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron on the shoes he crafts because they "assaulted our people". Читать дальше...