Ethiopia’s Tigray region eyes election in challenge to national unity
Ethiopia’s Tigray region plans to hold elections, its main party said, setting it on a collision course with the federal government and testing the country’s fragile unity.
Scientist advising UK government on coronavirus steps down after lockdown breach
A British scientist advising the government on its coronavirus response resigned from his role on Tuesday, after the Daily Telegraph reported he had broken lockdown rules by meeting a female friend.
Canada sends nurses to northern community hit by COVID-19
(This April 28 story corrects nurse employer to federal government from provincial in second paragraph)
Reuters Pulitzer team captured Hong Kong’s descent into chaos
The young woman is pressed to the ground next to a riot police shield. Detained by Hong Kong authorities, she screams her name out to friends so they can call a lawyer to help.
Italy’s daily coronavirus death toll rises, but fewer new cases
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 236 on Tuesday, against 195 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new infections came in at 1,075 against 1,221 on Monday.
A London community shattered by the coronavirus
In Britain’s Turkish-Cypriot community, early April was a period of anxious waiting. With a strong presence in Enfield, people of Turkish origin number around 500,000 in the UK, and, like many minorities, feel they have suffered disproportionately from…
Special Report: In shielding its hospitals from COVID-19, Britain left many of the weakest exposed
On a doorstep in the suburbs of north London, three-year-old Ayse picked up a tissue to wipe away her grandmother’s tears – tears for one more victim of the virus.
Too soon for reliable international comparisons on COVID-19 deaths: UK minister
It is too soon to make reliable international comparisons on death tolls from the new coronavirus, British foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday.
Pakistan concerned at workers returning from UAE with coronavirus
Pakistan has raised concerns with the United Arab Emirates that many citizens were returning home from the Gulf Arab state infected with COVID-19 and that crowded living conditions for workers in the UAE may be helping spread the virus, officials said …
Poland’s Senate leader accuses ruling PiS of election-by-post ‘trickery’
The head of Poland’s opposition-led Senate accused the ruling nationalists of “procedural trickery” on Tuesday to force through a May presidential election by postal ballot during the coronavirus pandemic.
