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4 pregnant women among 20 migrants dead in Tunisia sinking

11:34 pm December 25, 2020

Tunis: Four pregnant women were among 20 migrants whose bodies were found off Tunisia’s coast after their smuggling boat sank, Tunisian authorities said Friday, as search efforts continued for 13 others believed missing. Nineteen of the 20 migrants who died in Thursday’s sinking were women, according to Mourad Torki, the court spokesman for the Sfax region in […]

Pope on Christmas: Vaccines for all; needy, vulnerable first

7:10 pm December 25, 2020

Vatican City: Pope Francis made a Christmas Day plea for authorities to make COVID-19 vaccines available to all, insisting that the first in line should be the most vulnerable and needy, regardless of who holds the patents for the shots. “Vaccines for everybody, especially for the most vulnerable and needy,” who should be first in line, Francis said in […]

Several EU nations halt UK flights, fearing virus variant

10:13 pm December 20, 2020

Berlin: The German government said on Sunday it was planning to restrict travel to and from Britain because of the new coronavirus variant. A government spokesman said Germany is working on a regulation to restrict travel between Germany and Britain to protect the country from the new coronavirus variant. The government said it was in contact with […]

Several EU nations halt UK flights, fearing virus variant

8:18 pm December 20, 2020

Berlin: Several European Union nations on Sunday banned flights from the UK and Germany was considering limiting such flights to make sure that a new strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern England does not establish a strong foothold on the continent. The Netherlands banned flights from the U.K. for at least the rest of the […]

Italy enters strict 3-day lockdown over Easter

Pandemic exposes vulnerability of Italy’s ‘new poor’

2:32 pm December 20, 2020

Milan: The coronavirus pandemic did not produce Elena Simone’s first budgetary rough patch.The 49-year-old single mother found herself out of the job market when the 2008 global financial crisis hit Italy and never fully got back in, but she created a patchwork of small jobs that provided for herself and the youngest of her three children. That […]