Crowds thronging the “Mona Lisa” for a selfie will be a thing of the past. PARIS: The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, reopens on Monday (Jul 6) after its coronavirus closure, but with nearly a third of its galleries still shut. The vast former palace of France’s kings […]
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NEW DELHI: India has overtaken Russia with the world’s third-highest number of novel coronavirus cases, at nearly 700,000, according to the latest data, as the outbreak shows no sign of slowing. Health ministry data on Monday (Jul 6) showed more than 23,000 new cases reported in the previous 24 hours, […]
SEOUL: A South Korean court on Monday (Jul 6) refused an extradition request by United States law enforcement authorities for a man convicted of running a South Korea-based dark web child pornography site that sold videos for digital cash around the world. The man, Son Jong-woo, the site’s operator, completed […]
MELBOURNE: Australia will effectively seal off the state of Victoria from the rest of the country, authorities said Monday (Jul 6), announcing unprecedented measures to tackle a worrying surge in coronavirus cases. For the first time since the pandemic began, the border between Australia’s two most populous states – Victoria […]
LONDON: Britain’s separation talks with the European Union resume Monday (Jul 6) with few signs of compromise on a new trade agreement and time running out to avoid a messy split. London will host EU negotiator Michel Barnier after a round of face-to-face talks ended a day early last week […]
LA PAZ: Bolivian Health Minister Eidy Roca has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the third member of the cabinet to be infected in four days, interim President Jeanine Anez said on Sunday (Jul 5). Anez expressed her support for Roca on Twitter as the country’s rapidly worsening outbreak rose to […]
MEXICO CITY: Mexican police have arrested three men over a bloody gun attack on a drug rehabilitation centre that left 27 people dead, the local prosecutor’s office said on Sunday (Jul 6). Gunmen burst into the centre in the city of Irapuato in the central Guanajuato state last Wednesday, forcing […]
SANTIAGO: Chile recorded 10,159 coronavirus deaths on Sunday (Jul 5), as President Sebastian Pinera announced a US$1.5 billion aid package to help the middle class, which has been battered by the economic crisis. The death toll is compiled weekly by the Department of Statistics and Health (DEIS) and is considered […]
PARIS: France’s new Prime Minister Jean Castex was on Monday (Jul 6) expected to unveil a reshuffled government tasked with helping the economy brave its worst crisis since World War II and injecting fresh momentum into the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. Castex, a senior bureaucrat and provincial mayor almost completely […]
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has announced health protocols to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in the 2020 Haj season, banning gatherings and meetings between pilgrims, the state news agency said on Monday (Jul 6). Saudi Arabia decided in June to limit the number of domestic pilgrims attending the Haj […]