#BREAKING EU needs urgent measures amid risk of 'very high' Covid burden: health agency
#UPDATE The European Union health agency on Wednesday called on member states to "urgently" introduce anti-Covid measures to reduce the potentially "very high" burden the disease will have in December and January
📸 A coronavirus test center in Berlin
#BREAKING Covid vaccine boosters 'should be available for adults' in EU: von der Leyen
#UPDATE All adults in the EU should have access to Covid vaccine boosters, the bloc's chief Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday, as Europe seeks to counter surging infection numbers
#UPDATE The EU health agency on Wednesday appealed to member states to "urgently" introduce measures to counter surging #Covid19 cases, a day after the WHO Europe warned that 700,000 more may die on the continent this winter u.afp.com/wwYi#ECDC
#BREAKING Slovakia announces two-week partial lockdown: health minister
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#BREAKING EU to propose banning flights from southern Africa over Covid variant: von der Leyen
#BREAKING Germany to ban most travel from S.Africa over new Covid variant: minister
#UPDATE EU will propose ban on travel from southern Africa after discovery of new Covid-19 variant scientists fear could torpedo efforts to beat pandemic, EU chief says, as German acting Health Minister says Germany will ban most travel from South Africa
#BREAKING French minister says cancels meeting with UK counterpart after Johnson migrant letter to Macron
#UPDATE French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tells UK counterpart Priti Patel he is scrapping planned weekend talks with her, in protest at a letter made public by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the migrant crisis
#BREAKING UK urges France to 'reconsider' migrant meeting snub
#BREAKING French fishermen to blockade Channel Tunnel, ferries
#BREAKING UK 'disappointed' by French fishermen's blockade threat: govt
#UPDATE Britain's government says it is "disappointed" by threats from French fishermen to blockade the Channel Tunnel in a dispute over post-Brexit fishing rights
#BREAKING Thousands protest in Sudan against military takeover: witnesses
#UPDATE Thousands of Sudanese protesters rallied Thursday against last month's military power grab, rejecting an agreement struck between the top general that saw the prime minister reinstated, witnesses said
#UPDATE Thousands of Sudanese protesters rallied Thursday against last month's military power grab, rejecting an agreement struck between the top general that saw the prime minister reinstated, witnesses said
#BREAKING South Africa detects new Covid-19 variant: scientists
#UPDATE Scientists in South Africa say they have detected a new #COVID19 variant with multiple mutations, in an announcement that came after a recent rise in infection numbers
#UPDATE Scientists in South Africa say they have detected a new #COVID19 variant with multiple mutations, blaming it for a surge in infection numbers u.afp.com/wwst
VIDEO: Plumes of thick black smoke billow high as rioters torch buildings in the Solomon Islands' capital of Honiara Thursday, targeting the city's Chinatown district in a second day of anti-government protests. of fire and smoke rising
A fact file on the Solomon Islands after two days of anti-government protests
#UPDATE Australia has rushed peacekeepers to the Solomon Islands, hoping to quell riots that threatened to topple the Pacific nation's government and left its capital ablaze u.afp.com/wwWa