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Austria orders curfew, shutting restaurants to fight COVID surge
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria on Saturday announced a nighttime curfew and the closure of restaurants to all but take-away service as coronavirus infections approach what the government says is an unsust...
Oct 31, 2020
First planes land at Berlin’s much-delayed airport
BERLIN (Reuters) - The first passengers landed at Berlin's new airport on Saturday, nine years after it was originally due to open and as the global aviation industry struggles with collapsing demand ...
Oct 31, 2020
U.S. citizen rescued by American forces in Nigeria: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces carried out a rescue operation in northern Nigeria to recover an American citizen being held by "armed men" on Saturday, the Pentagon said. "This American citizen is...
Oct 31, 2020
Austria readies new COVID curbs as daily infections stay above 5,000
ZURICH (Reuters) - Austria's daily tally of new coronavirus cases stood at 5,349, data from the government showed on Saturday, as it prepares to announce new measures aimed at slowing the spread of th...
Oct 31, 2020
Iran imposes new restrictions to stem coronavirus spread: Rouhani
(Reuters) - Weddings, wakes and conferences will be banned in the Iranian capital until further notice as the Middle East's hardest-hit nation battles a third wave of COVID-19, police said on Saturday...
Oct 31, 2020
Spanish police arrest man for praising attack near Paris
BARCELONA (Reuters) - A Moroccan man was arrested in Barcelona for praising the beheading of a French schoolteacher outside Paris this month and inciting more attacks, police said on Saturday. The man...
Oct 31, 2020
More than 150 evacuated from Russian coronavirus hospital after fire
MOSCOW (Reuters) - More than 150 patients were evacuated on Saturday from a makeshift coronavirus hospital in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in the southern Urals following an oxygen explosion and fi...
Oct 31, 2020
Slovakia mobilises as bid to COVID-test most of country in two days begins
By Radovan Stoklasa TRENCIN, Slovakia (Reuters) - Long queues formed outside coronavirus testing centres in Slovakia on Saturday, as the country embarked on a bid to test most of the country's 5.5 mil...
Oct 31, 2020
Greece to shut most bars, restaurants in country for month from Tuesday
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will expand a night-time curfew on movement and shut restaurants and bars in the most populous areas of the country for one month from Nov. 3 to contain a resurgence in COVID...
Oct 31, 2020
Poland reports record rise in daily coronavirus cases
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland reported a record 21,897 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, while the country faces massive protests following an abortion ruling last week. Poland has seen widespread, ...
Oct 31, 2020
