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On Tuesday, Boris Johnson promised to end coronavirus restrictions “once and for all” as he delivered a speech to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the UK’s first national COVID-19 lockdown. Conservative backbenchers in the UK are expected to rebel against…

Addressing the nation on New Year’s Day, the French president assured no “unjustifiable delays” would occur in the nationwide coronavirus immunisation campaign, but critics argue that other EU countries are far ahead in terms of the number of those who…

Faced with more stringent guidelines from the country’s Covid-19 task group amid the onslaught of the coronavirus, Denmark’s church officials called to cancel services altogether until 3 January, breaking with a century of tradition. The Danish authorities have tightened their…

Germany announced a month-long lockdown earlier this week. The quarantine, that will start on Monday, 2 November, stipulates the cancellation of all mass events and the closure of bars and restaurants except for takeaways. The Berlin pub, Ständige Vertretung (Permanent…

Sheikh Muhammad Adnan Al-Afyouni was “martyred” as an explosive device planted in his car was detonated on Thursday night. Damascus’ grand mufti has been killed in a reported IED attack on his vehicle in the Syrian city of Qudsaya, according…

This is not the first time that the hacker has tried to access Donald Trump’s account on Twitter, where the US president has 87.3 million followers. In 2016, the hacker claimed he had got into Trump’s account by guessing his…

HELSINKI (Sputnik) – About 350 activists gathered on Tuesday near the Parliament House building in the Finnish capital of Helsinki to demand the government’s resignation and the country’s withdrawal from the European Union, police said. A call to participate in…

Turkish frigates confronted French naval forces in the Mediterranean Sea as they tried to inspect a ship, purportedly carrying weapons to Libya in violation of the UN ban. The incident took place amid Ankara’s attempts to help the UN recognised…

New Delhi (Sputnik): Whenever a shimmering light or an erratically moving object is spotted in the sky, people think of nothing other than an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). Many in India claim to have witnessed several such “extra-terrestrial” occurrences. Whether…

Last year, scientists from Newcastle University in the UK suggested that pig fat could have been used to move the stones to create Stonehenge. Archaeologists may have debunked the theory that stones for the world famous Stonehenge were sent via rafts from…