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Paris to shut bars and raise maximum corona alert

PARIS, Oct 05 (BBC): Paris will shut all bars completely from Tuesday as the French government raises the city's coronavirus alert to maximum following a sustained period of high infection rates.The restrictions will last two weeks, with full details to be announced on Monday, Prime Minister Jean Castex's office announced.On...

Rocket attacks rock Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Oct 05 (Xinhua): Two Katyusha rocket attacks targeted Baghdad airport and the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital on Monday without causing human casualty, the Iraqi military said.One of the attacks took place before dawn when two rockets were fired from al-Jihad neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad and...

Trump's condition improving

NEW YORK, Oct 05 (Reuters): President Donald Trump's condition is improving as he is being treated for COVID-19 at a military hospital, his medical team said on Sunday, as they provided more details of the toll the lung illness has taken on him.Trump, 74, who was flown to Walter Reed...

Over 100,000 march in Belarus against govt

KIEV, Oct 05 (AP): More than 100,000 people marched in Belarus' capital on Sunday to protest against the country's authoritarian leader, who won his sixth term in office in an election widely seen as rigged.The demonstrators demanded the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko, and freedom for political prisoners. Police used...

Pope criticises lack of unity in response to virus

VATICAN, Oct 05 (New York Times): Pope Francis criticised the failures of global cooperation in response to the coronavirus pandemic in a document released Sunday that underscores the priorities of his pontificate."As I was writing this letter, the COVID-19 pandemic unexpectedly erupted, exposing our false securities," Francis said in the...

Armenians, Azeris accuse each other of striking civilian areas

NAGORNO-KARABAKH, Oct 05 (Reuters): Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas on a ninth day of fighting, the deadliest in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years.Hundreds of people have been killed in the latest outbreak of war over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave...

Eight perish as car bomb blast rattles Afghanistan

MEHTARLAM, Oct 05 (Xinhua): At least eight people were killed and 28 others wounded after a car bomb blast rattled Mehtarlam city, capital of Afghanistan's eastern Laghman province on Monday, local police confirmed."The explosion occurred roughly at 10:00 a.m. local time. The blast targeted the convoy of provincial governor driving...