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With Italy's bookstores closed, avid readers are turning elsewhere for literary fare -- but the independent booksellers are livid while online giants see business continue apace
World
20.08.2024
So much time to read and Italy's bookstores closed
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (pictured February 2020) said that "global solidarity is not only a moral imperative, it is in everyone's interests"
World
20.08.2024
Millions could die if virus allowed to spread unchecked: UN chief
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said that holding the vote during the coronavirus pandemic would be a "crime against pensioners"
World
20.08.2024
Russian opposition leader urges constitution vote boycott
Eduardo Bolsonaro (pictured December 2019), a lawmaker and the son of Brazil's president, accused China of concealing information about the spread of COVID-19
World
20.08.2024
Bolsonaro son accuses China over coronavirus
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The IUCN identified modest growth in numbers decimated by poaching and illegal trade -- this November image released by Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority in Tanzania shows Fausta, a female black rhino who died last year aged 57
World 20.08.2024
Slow growth in black rhino numbers cause for hope: conservationists
The logo of a Citgo station in Delaware
World 20.08.2024
US demands Venezuela free Citgo executives as virus hits
Afghan security forces stand guard after a Taliban attack in Kunduz province on March 4, 2020. The insurgents have stepped up attacks on Afghan forces since the US-Taliban deal
World 20.08.2024
Taliban should agree ceasefire to stop virus: Afghan minister
A man uses the chance to stretch his legs by walking his dog in the central northern town of Burgos -- one of the few means of beating Spain's coronavirus lockdown
World 20.08.2024
Walking the dog: a get-out-of-jail card in lockdown Spain
Hungarian police and medics control passengers on a bus at the border -- huge tailbacks have ensued since Budapest shut its borders Monday, albeit the rules seemed to be being applied arbitrarily in at least some cases
World 20.08.2024
Hungary border chaos continues as travellers trapped in limbo
"I'm as well as I can be, strictly confined to my home," Barnier said. "Morale is good"
World 20.08.2024
EU's Barnier has coronavirus, threatening Brexit talks
Turkish Cypriot police stand guard outside a quarantined hotel near Famagusta on the island's east coast
World 20.08.2024
Turkish Cypriots postpone election over coronavirus
Visitors to a state hospital in Lagos collect facemasks and gloves and have their hands sanitised
World 20.08.2024
Lagos closes schools as virus shadow lengthens over Africa
The Iranian government has been battling one of the deadliest outbreaks of the new coronavirus outside China, where it originated
World 20.08.2024
Iran says 149 new coronavirus deaths, toll reaches 1,284
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