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Switzerland adds Spain to coronavirus quarantine list 05 Aug 2020 - 06:07 pm
Tourists wearing a face mask take pictures of a huge 6400 meters square Swiss flag hanging on mountain Saentis on eve of Swiss national day on July 31, 2020 near Schw?galp, eastern Switzerland. Many Swiss stay in their country for holidays due to travel r
Countries tighten measures as global virus death toll tops 700,000 05 Aug 2020 - 02:55 pm
People wearing a face mask walks on the Lijnbaan, in Rotterdam on August 5, 2020, as from today, wearing a face mask is mandatory in five usually crowded places in the city.  AFP / Pieter STAM DE JONGE
EU regulators investigate Google's plan to buy Fitbit 04 Aug 2020 - 05:23 pm
FILE PHOTO: Fitbit Blaze watch is seen in front of a displayed Google logo in this illustration picture taken, November 8, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo
UK competition watchdog approves Amazon stake in Deliveroo 04 Aug 2020 - 03:53 pm
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics center in Lauwin-Planque, northern France, April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo
Interpol warns of 'alarming' cybercrime rate during pandemic 04 Aug 2020 - 01:49 pm
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UK risks twice-as-big second COVID wave without better testing, study finds 04 Aug 2020 - 01:20 pm
A man walks his dog past a poster promoting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing at local mobile test centres, in Hounslow, London, Britain August 4, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Poland reports record increases in COVID cases as coal mines hit 04 Aug 2020 - 12:52 pm
Participants attend an event marking the anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupants in Warsaw, Poland August 1, 2020. Dawid Zuchowicz/Agencja Gazeta via REUTERS
Second COVID wave 'highly likely' to hit France this year, scientists say 04 Aug 2020 - 12:52 pm
A woman wearing a protective face mask walks at the Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower in Paris as France reinforces mask-wearing as part of efforts to curb a resurgence of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) across the country, August 3, 2020. REUTERS
Italy sees signs of hope in new Genoa bridge 03 Aug 2020 - 08:21 pm
A rainbow is seen over the new San Giorgio bridge on the inauguration day on August 3 , 2020 in Genoa, the new high-tech structure will have four maintenance robots running along its length to spot weathering or erosion, as well as a special dehumidificat
Cheaper cocoa may not be a recipe for lower chocolate prices 03 Aug 2020 - 08:15 pm
Confectionery is seen at L. Heiner confectioner's production facility in Vienna, Austria, April 18, 2018. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader/File Photo
Spain to roll out COVID-19 app twice as effective as human tracers in pilot 03 Aug 2020 - 05:19 pm
FILE PHOTO: Volunteers show residents how to install an app to trace contacts with people potentially infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) being trialled on the Canary Island of La Gomera, Spain, July 3, 2020. Alejandro Noda/via REUTERS/File P
Norway's Hurtigruten halts cruises after COVID-19 outbreak 03 Aug 2020 - 04:37 pm
The expedition cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen is moored at a quay in Tromso, northern Norway, on August 1, 2020. / Norway OUT / AFP / NTB Scanpix / Rune Stoltz Bertinussen
Paris pulls out the stops to restore Notre-Dame's grand organ 03 Aug 2020 - 01:25 pm
FILE PHOTO: The organ is pictured during preliminary work in the Notre-Dame Cathedral, three months after a major fire, in Paris, France July 17, 2019. Stephane de Sakutin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Masks on as German children start new schoolyear under virus cloud 03 Aug 2020 - 01:13 pm
Students attend class at the Christophorusschule school in Rostock, northern Germany, on August 3, 2020, as school resumed after the summer break in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), amid a Coronavirus Covid-19 pa
John Hume, Northern Irish Catholic leader and Nobel Peace laureate, dies at 83 03 Aug 2020 - 12:17 pm
FILE PHOTO: Former SDLP leader, John Hume, arrives for the funeral mass of former Bishop Edward Daly at St. Eugene's Cathedral in Londonderry, Northern Ireland August 11, 2016. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo
Firefighters, troops battle forest fire outside Madrid 03 Aug 2020 - 11:04 am
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Cyprus introduces COVID-19 testing on Greek arrivals amid spike 02 Aug 2020 - 11:29 pm
A traveller, mask-clad due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, arriving on one of the first flights from Britain gestures as he walks with luggage out of the terminal at Cyprus' Larnaca International Airport on August 1, 2020. / AFP / Iakovos Hatzistavr
"Major incident" declared in British city of Manchester to tackle COVID-19 02 Aug 2020 - 10:50 pm
People walk along a street in the Sale area of Manchester, as the city and the surrounding area faces local restrictions in an effort to avoid a local lockdown being forced upon the area, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, Britain, August 1