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Anger over Italy virus rules as curfews enforced around Europe 26 Oct 2020 - 08:52 pm
FILE PHOTO: People sit in front of Rome's ancient Colosseum illuminated with colours of the Italian flag in Rome, Italy, May 31, 2020. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo
Storm Zeta nears Mexico's coast, threatening storm surge and hurricane conditions 26 Oct 2020 - 08:42 pm
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India proposes law to tackle country’s deadly air pollution 26 Oct 2020 - 08:11 pm
TOPSHOT - An officer from the district magistrate office holds a Covid-19 coronavirus-themed mascot in a market area during an awareness campaign against coronavirus and rising air pollution levels in New Delhi on October 26, 2020. / AFP / Sajjad HUSSAIN
Private psychotherapy notes leaked in major Finnish hack 26 Oct 2020 - 07:54 pm
Picture taken on October 24, 2020 shows the psychotherapy centre Vastaamo's office in Pasila, Helsinki. Distressed psychotherapy patients were flooding mental health charities Monday, October 26, 2020, as Finnish police revealed over the weekend that the
Brazil's Bolsonaro says cure, not vaccine, way out of coronavirus crisis 26 Oct 2020 - 07:31 pm
FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Jair BOLSONARO looks on during the COVID-19 Clinical Study Result Announcement Ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, October 19, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
Erdogan urges Turks to boycott French goods 26 Oct 2020 - 06:13 pm
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey October 26, 2020. Presidential Press Office
Belgian hospitals could run out of intensive care beds in 15 days 26 Oct 2020 - 06:04 pm
People queue to be screened for Covid-19 at a testing station set up at Brussels Airport, in Zaventem, on October 26, 2020. Belgium OUT / AFP / Belga / ERIC LALMAND
U.S. Vice President Pence tests negative for coronavirus: Office 26 Oct 2020 - 04:38 pm
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence makes a fist at the end of a rally in Kinston, North Carolina, U.S., October 25, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
Miss airline food? Finnair selling business class meals in supermarket 26 Oct 2020 - 04:14 pm
Marika Nieminen, Head of Finnair kitchen and Juha Stenholm, Finnair Kitchen Chief are pictured in Vantaa, Finland, October 22, 2020. Picture taken October 22, 2020. REUTERS/Attila Cser
Russia strikes kill 78 in Syria: monitor 26 Oct 2020 - 04:07 pm
Syrians take part in the funeral of 10 fighters with the Turkey-backed Faylaq al-Sham rebel faction in Syria, in the northwestern city of Idlib, on October 26, 2020, following their death in a Russian air strike.   AFP / Mohammed AL-RIFAI
Biden, Trump focus on battleground states in 11th-hour pitch 26 Oct 2020 - 02:26 pm
Trump supporters from Japan gather to show support for the President on October 23, 2020 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.  AFP / Kena Betancur
Xi's big carbon promise on the table as China's leaders meet 26 Oct 2020 - 01:57 pm
Chinese President Xi Jinping is applauded as he arrives for a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of China's entry into the Korean War, in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on October 23, 2020. / AFP / NOEL CELIS
Australia's coronavirus epicentre to ease curbs after no new cases 26 Oct 2020 - 11:35 am
A man wearing a face mask crosses a pedestrian bridge in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda on October 26, 2020 as Australian health officials reported no new coronavirus cases or deaths in Victoria state, which has spent months under onerous restrictions a
Vietnam ready to evacuate 1.3 mln people as typhoon approaches 26 Oct 2020 - 11:25 am
Residents wade along a flooded road at a village in Quang Tri province, Vietnam October 20, 2020. Picture taken October 20, 2020. Yen Duong/International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC)/Handout via REUTERS
'We've missed you,' UK's Camilla tells actors at Olivier stage awards 26 Oct 2020 - 11:13 am
Britain's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall visits a charity's training centre where trials are currently underway to determine whether dogs can act as a diagnostic tool detecting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Milton Keynes, Britain September 9, 2020.
Japan aims for zero emissions, carbon neutral society by 2050: PM 26 Oct 2020 - 10:38 am
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga wearing a face mask, gives his policy speech during an extraordinary session at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo on October 26, 2020. Suga sets 2050 deadline for carbon neutrality. / AFP / Kazuhiro NOGI
Thai PM says 'illegal protests' must be controlled as parliament opens 26 Oct 2020 - 10:37 am
A pro-democracy protester holds a sign with the image of Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha urging him leave office at an anti-government rally in Bangkok on October 25, 2020, as activists continued their calls for his resignation. / AFP / Mladen
S.Korea urges people to get flu vaccinations despite death tolls 26 Oct 2020 - 10:24 am
A man gets an influenza vaccine at a branch of the Korea Association of Health Promotion in Seoul, South Korea, October 23, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji