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French shop owners pressure Macron to lighten virus lockdown

10:55 pm November 24, 2020

Paris: People in France may be able to go back to their favourite shops and attend religious services again next week, after a month of partial virus lockdown — but they’ll probably have to wait until next year to savor wine and cheese in a local cafe. President Emmanuel Macron is expected to lay out new rules […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Europe hopes for reset, end to ‘damage control’ under Biden

7:46 pm November 24, 2020

Berlin: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday he hopes a reset of US-European relations under the Biden administration can end years in which Europe was mainly concerned with “damage control.” Maas’ counterpart from Portugal, which will have taken over the European Union presidency when Joe Biden is inaugurated, said Europe wants to be treated as a “full and equal partner” […]

Police detain people at Poland’s latest abortion protests

11:12 pm November 23, 2020

Warsaw: Police detained several people, including a photo reporter, as women-led protests over abortion rights flared up again on Monday in Warsaw and elsewhere in Poland. The protests, organised by the group Women’s Strike, have been occurring regularly ever since the country’s constitutional court issued an October 22 ruling that further tightens an abortion law […]

UN: Huge changes in society needed to keep nature, Earth OK

Europe, US ‘climate guardian’ satellite to monitor oceans

11:28 pm November 20, 2020

Berlin: A satellite jointly developed by Europe and the United States being launched this weekend will greatly help scientists keep track of the rise in global sea levels, one of the most daunting effects of climate change, a senior official at the European Space Agency said Friday. The new satellite, called Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, contains […]

Hungary to purchase air defense systems from US, Norway

11:34 pm November 19, 2020

Budapest: Hungary has agreed to purchase NASAMS air defence systems from US arms manufacturer Raytheon Technologies and Norwegian defence company Kongsberg, a Hungarian official said on Thursday. Hungary’s commissioner for defense developments told the MTI news agency that deployment of the short-to-medium-range system would “restore the military’s defensive capabilities to a 21st-century standard.” It would replace the outdated, Soviet-designed Kub […]