Italian nursing homes lacked tools for COVID-19 onslaught, survey shows
Italy’s nursing homes, where the COVID-19 epidemic is believed to have killed thousands of people, did not have the equipment needed to protect staff or residents, a survey by the country’s top health body showed on Wednesday.
Saudi-led coalition in Yemen denies killing civilians in Saada air strike
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on Wednesday denied that an air strike it carried out earlier this week in Saada province had killed civilians, as alleged by Houthi authorities.
Merkel urges caution despite fewer coronavirus cases
Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans on Wednesday to remain cautious and stick to social distancing rules, but also added that the number of new coronavirus infections had stabilized at a low level.
Germany’s SPD eyes Scholz as chancellor candidate for 2021 election
Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) will ask Finance Minister Olaf Scholz to be their chancellor candidate at an election next year when conservative Angela Merkel’s fourth and last term ends, the weekly Die Zeit reported on Wednesday, citing SPD sources….
No injuries as UK PM Johnson’s car shunted by security vehicle: Reuters witnesses
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s car was shunted by a security vehicle outside parliament on Wednesday when Kurdish protesters ran into the road, two Reuters witnesses said.
Mexican president says Trump summit unlikely, but keeps door open
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday backtracked further on a Washington summit he had proposed with U.S. President Donald Trump for the July 1 launch of the USMCA trade deal, although he did not totally rule it out.
EU chief executive sets conditions for Brexit deal this year
The European Union will do its best to seal an agreement on new ties with Britain by the end of the year but will not compromise its core values to achieve that, the bloc’s chief executive, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Wednesday.
Cyber spies use LinkedIn to hack European defence firms
Hackers posed as recruiters working for U.S. defence giants Collins Aerospace and General Dynamics on LinkedIn to break into the networks of military contractors in Europe, cybersecurity researchers said on Wednesday.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro says time to end ‘abuses’ by Supreme Court
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday told supporters it is necessary to stop “abuses” from the nation’s Supreme Court and that time was nearing to put “everything in its rightful place,” his latest attack in an ongoing confrontation with the …
Brother of George Floyd urges U.N. probe into U.S. racism, violence
The brother of the late George Floyd, a black man whose death under the knee of a white officer roused world protests against racial injustice, urged the United Nations on Wednesday to investigate U.S. police brutality and racial discrimination.
