Section: Africa
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German City To Test For COVID-19 At Train Stations, Motorways
In this file photo taken on July 10, 2020, patient Heike Abicht poses for a photo of a testing situation in a corona screening station in the medical center of the Franz-Josef-Strauss airport in Munich, southern Germany, amid the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Christof STACHE / AFP Bavaria will set up coronavirus test sites at its two...
Newsdeck: Full ceasefire takes effect in eastern Ukraine
KYIV, July 27 (Reuters) – A full and comprehensive ceasefire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists has entered into force in eastern Ukraine, opening the prospect of an end to military and civilian casualties, the two sides said on Monday. …read more Source:: Daily...
India Coronavirus Deaths Pass 30,000 As US Tops Four Million Cases
A man sits next to beds at a newly built hospital to treat Covid-19 coronavirus patients at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse, in Mumbai on July 7, 2020.(Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP) India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus overtook France’s on Friday with 30,601 fatalities and nearly 50,000 new cases overnight, official data showed....
BREAKING: Ukraine Bus Hostages Freed, Gunman Arrested
An intercity bus with passengers who have been taken hostage by an armed man is seen in the city of Lutsk, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) from the capital Kiev, on July 21, 2020. YURIY DYACHYSHYN / AFP The siege of a bus with 13 passengers by an armed man on Tuesday has ended with all the hostages freed, Ukrainian police said. “The hostages are...
News24.com | Shots heard as bus passengers taken hostage in Ukraine
A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives has seized a bus in the Ukrainian city of Lutsk and took a number of people on board hostage, police have said. …read more Source::...
Armed man takes 20 people hostage on bus in Ukraine
Lutsk, Ukraine – An armed man seized a bus and took some 20 people hostage in northwestern Ukraine on Tuesday, Ukrainian police said. Police sealed off the center of Lutsk, a city 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of Kyiv. The assailant is armed and carrying explosives, they said in a Facebook statement. Police officers are trying to get in...
Two Coronavirus Vaccines ‘Produce Immune Response’
This file photo taken on April 29, 2020 shows an engineer taking samples of monkey kidney cells as he make tests on an experimental vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus inside the Cells Culture Room laboratory at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP) Two COVID-19 vaccine candidates have proven safe for humans...
COVID-19: Hungary Bans Travel From Africa, Most Of Asia
File photo: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a press conference following a Visegrad Group (V4) meeting in Warsaw on July 3, 2020.JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP Hungary’s government said Sunday it was barring travel from Africa, most of Asia apart from China and Japan, and restricting entry from several European countries...
Ukraine Battles Post-Lockdown COVID-19 Surge
Medical staff wearing personal protective equipments (PPE) treats a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit of Lviv emergency hospital on June 30, 2020. – The World Health Organisation listed Ukraine among two dozen countries in Europe that had seen resurgences of the coronavirus for the first time in months. Genya SAVILOV / AFP. Wearing full...
Sweden: Iran to compensate Ukraine plane crash victims
STOCKHOLM — Iran has agreed to compensate the families’ of the foreign victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down by Iranian forces outside Tehran in January, Sweden’s foreign minister said on Thursday. “We have signed an agreement of mutual understanding that we will now negotiate together with Iran about amends,...
