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Ireland resists lockdown call, tighten COVID-19 curbs instead 05 Oct 2020 - 11:52 pm
A shopkeeper wearing a protective face mask closes one of her shop doors as the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) announced recommendations that the government implement the highest level of COVID-19 restrictions to Level 5, amid the coronavir
More bodies found as French villages dig out from flooding 05 Oct 2020 - 07:36 pm
A picture taken on October 5, 2020 shows an aerial view of Breil-sur-Roya, a French village close to the Italian border, where houses were buried in mud and turned-over cars were stuck in the riverbed following heavy rains and floods. / AFP / Valery HACHE
UK PM Johnson plays down technical failure of COVID-19 testing data system 05 Oct 2020 - 07:24 pm
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends a remote press conference to update the nation on the COVID-19 pandemic, inside 10 Downing Street in central London on September 30, 2020, the 100th coronavirus briefing since the pandemic hit the UK. / AFP /
Ireland faces resistance to "nuclear" Covid-19 lockdown recommendation 05 Oct 2020 - 04:58 pm
Workers make repairs to the roof of a residential terraced house, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Dublin, Ireland October 1, 2020. (REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne)
Paris cafes to shut as Europe confronts second virus wave 05 Oct 2020 - 04:34 pm
A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past the cafe and restaurant Les Deux Magots in Paris, during the announcement of new Covid restrictions by Paris authorities as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues in France, October 5, 2020.
Huge questions for UK govt after spike in virus cases 05 Oct 2020 - 04:25 pm
Passers-by shelter under umbrellas outside a Picturehouse cinema in west London on October 4, 2020. Cineworld, which own the Picturehouse chain of cinemas, is set to close its 128 UK sites in the coming weeks. / AFP / JUSTIN TALLIS
Sea creatures die in far eastern Russia 'ecological disaster' 05 Oct 2020 - 03:24 pm
A satellite image taken on September 27, 2020 shows the coastline of the Kamchatka peninsula. A Russian official said on October 5 that the sea off the remote Kamchatka peninsula may have been contaminated with toxic chemicals as Greenpeace warned of an
Moscow schools start unplanned holidays as COVID-19 cases rise 05 Oct 2020 - 02:39 pm
A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus disease stands at a bus stop in central Moscow on October 5, 2020. / AFP / Yuri KADOBNOV
Britain’s Octopus Energy to create 1,000 jobs, new tech hub 05 Oct 2020 - 01:21 pm
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the headquarters of Octopus Energy on October 5, 2020 in London. The visit coincides with the company's plan to create 1,000 new technology jobs across sites in England. / AFP / POOL / Leon Neal
Scientists to Spanish politicians: 'You rule but don't know' 05 Oct 2020 - 01:19 pm
Commuters wearing protective face masks wait on a platform at Atocha train station during a partial lockdown amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Madrid, Spain October 5, 2020. Reuters/Sergio Perez
'A blessing in disguise': COVID gives boost to Portugal's bicycle makers 05 Oct 2020 - 01:04 pm
Workers are seen in RTE bicycles factory in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, September 25, 2020. Picture taken September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
3 win Nobel medicine award for hepatitis C virus discovery 05 Oct 2020 - 12:57 pm
Thomas Perlmann, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, announces Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M? Rice as the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin
Microsoft plans $1 billion data center venture in Greece 05 Oct 2020 - 12:11 pm
President of Microsoft Brad Smith speaks with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, with the ancient Acropolis hill in the background, during an event on the company's new investment in Greece, at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece October 5, 2020
Alfred Nobel, creator of dynamite and high-minded prizes 05 Oct 2020 - 11:17 am
In this file photo taken on December 10, 2019 a visitor stands in front of a bust of the Nobel Prize founder, Alfred Nobel prior the Nobel awards ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel, who made a vast
EU's von der Leyen self-isolating after contact with COVID-19 case 05 Oct 2020 - 10:10 am
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses the media on the second day of a European Union leaders summit at the Europa building in Brussels, Belgium October 2, 2020. John Thys/Pool via REUTERS
UK's vaccine task force head says vaccinating all of UK 'not going to happen' -FT 05 Oct 2020 - 12:33 am
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UK COVID cases jump to 22,961 after glitch causes backlog 05 Oct 2020 - 12:24 am
People walk across Millennium Bridge during rainy weather, in LONDON, Britain, October 4, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
London transport regulator strips Ola's operating licence over public safety failings 05 Oct 2020 - 12:16 am
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File photo DR Congo's official Ebola death toll exceeds 400
Head of Algeria's Islamist Movement of Society for Peace (MSP) Abdelaali Hassani Cherif casts his ballot during parliamentary elections in Algiers on July 2, 2026. (Photo by AFP) Algerians vote for new parliament with turnout in focus
A general view of houses damaged by landslides and flooding in the Mossikro neighbourhood of Attecoube, a suburb of Abidjan, on June 29, 2026.Photo by CHRIS BOLI / AFP Floods kill 59 in I.Coast since mid-May: government
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed file photo Ethiopia attracts over 1.4 mln foreign visitors in 2025/26 fiscal year PM

Americas

A man looks on at Centennial Park during an extreme-heat warning in Nashville, Tennessee. The heat wave, stretching from the Midwest to the East Coast, will affect as many as 90 million Americans. (Photo by Seth Herald /AFP) Hot spell roasts eastern US as holiday weekend approaches
An international rescue team assists a survivor of Venezuela's twin earthquakes in Catia La Mar, La Guaira State, Venezuela on July 2, 2026, eight days after the quake. Hernan Gil, a 43-year-old security guard, had been buried in the booth of the seven-story building where he worked in Catia La Mar, a coastal area in the state of La Guaira devastated by the disaster. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP) Man rescued eight days after Venezuela quakes
People search for their deceased relatives among the debris of a collapsed building in the Los Corales neighbourhood of Caraballeda, La Guaira State, Venezuela on July 1, 2026, following the June 24 twin earthquakes. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP) 'I'm going to stay calm': 48 hours under the rubble in Venezuela
This handout photo released by NASA on July 31, 2004, shows the Swift spacecraft being unwrapped in Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Photo by Handout / NASA / AFP) NASA robot mission aiming to rescue space telescope

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