- Lusa For a year and a half, Ruben Alonso Elorza cycled 26,000 kilometers across Africa, traveling 17 countries, but the covid-19 pandemic ended the adventure of the traveler, who has lived on a paradisiacal Angolan beach for more than two months. The 47-year-old Basque began his journey in the Egyptian capi...
. BBC A church in Berlin has opened its doors to Muslim worshippers unable to fit into their mosque under new social distancing rules. "It is a great sign and it brings joy in Ramadan and joy amid this crisis," the mosque's imam told Reuters news agency. "This pandemic has made us a community. Crises bring peop...
LISBON . This Friday, Portugal registers 30,200 cases of Covid-19, 288 more cases (+ 1%) than the previous day, and 1289 deaths, 12 more deaths (0.9%) than on Thursday. In relation to recovered patients, the epidemiological bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health released this Friday reports more tha...
Italy. The death toll from Covid-19 rose on Friday to 32,616, civil protection announced in the daily balance sheet. In the last 24 hours, 130 more deaths were registered, 26 fewer than the previous day . 652 new cases of infection were also recorded, bringing the number of infected people to 228,658 si...
. Falah Gulzar Indian citizen Pradhuman Singh Naruka, driving on a Rajasthan highway, was in shock as he tilted his camera from his car towards a man on the road devouring a dead dog's carcass. The incident has once again highlighted how hunger and poverty is ravaging India amidst the coronavirus lockdown. ...
. Dinesh Gautam,Cyprus A list of 20 countries from which Cyprus could potentially receive visitors this summer is currently being assessed by the government advisory committee on coronavirus, one of its members said on Thursday. The list was given to the committee by deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdio...
LISBON. The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, suggested on 20 May that the Government consider extending the 'lay-off', if there is financial availability for this, to contain the increase in unemployment. Speaking to journalists outside the restaurant "A Valenciana" in Lisbon, where he had...
WHO Director-General says 106,000 new cases have been reported in the past 24 hours alone. The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned today that there is still a "long way to go" in relation to covid-19, saying that in the last 24 hours alone, 106,000 new cas...
LISBON. Portugal’s Prime Minister, António Costa, has today received a guarantee from the French President, Emmanuel Macron, that no quarantine measure will be imposed on Portuguese emigrants who return to France across the land border with Spain. On his official twitter account Costa wrote the reassurance w...
- Dinesh gautam, Cyprus. Cyprus should look to ways of ensuring the British market is able to fly into the island’s airports and keep the sector afloat, the head of the Paphos hoteliers association told the Cyprus Mail on Monday Euripides Loizides, who also owns the Mayfair Hotel in Paphos which has been us...