Georgian president pardons two opposition politicians
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili on Friday pardoned two opposition politicians, a former mayor of the capital and an ex-defence minister, in a move to reduce...
France reports more coronavirus deaths, raising total to 27,529
French health authorities reported 104 new coronavirus deaths on Friday, or a slowing increase of 0.4%, bringing the total to 27,529, still the fourth-highest in...
Pandemic lays waste to Portugal’s recycling dreams
One of the many victims of the coronavirus pandemic is likely to be Portugal’s nascent progress in recycling waste, environmental campaigners say....
Eurovision organisers plan alternative show to replace cancelled contest
Diehard Eurovision fans will not go entirely without this year. The 2020 song contest was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but its organisers are...
Biden campaign sees larger ‘battleground’ in race against Trump
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign is betting that as many as 16 states could be up for grabs in November’s election, with President Donald...
32 U.S. senators urge FCC to reconsider Ligado spectrum order
A bipartisan group of 32 U.S. senators on Friday urged the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider a decision to allow Ligado Networks to deploy a...
Statins may help older coronavirus patients avoid symptoms; COVID-19 more than respiratory illness
The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for...
New York, neighbor states to open beaches for Memorial Day -NY’s Cuomo
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the state will join nearby New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware in partially reopening beaches for the Memorial Day weekend...
UK COVID-19 reproduction rate rises to 0.7-1.0
The reproduction rate of the coronavirus in the United Kingdom is now somewhere between 0.7 and 1.0, government scientific advisers said on Friday, a slight...
Lovers kept apart by coronavirus reunited as border fence comes down
He happens to live in Switzerland. She happens to live in Germany. Before the coronavirus, that didn’t mean much for Lukas and Leonie, a cross-border...