Austria denies trove of public and ministers’ addresses was data leak
Austria’s Economy Ministry confirmed on Friday it had removed a database from its website that for years showed the home addresses of around a million people including the president and cabinet ministers, but it denied there had been a data leak.
Madrid, Barcelona will not pass to next phase of exit lockdown, government says
The cities of Madrid and Barcelona will not pass to the next phase of Spain’s exit from the lockdown imposed in mid-March to control one of Europe’s worst outbreaks of the coronavirus, Spanish Health Emergency Coordinator Fernando Simon said on Friday….
Macron’s lawmakers told to pull together amid reports of new group
The parliamentary leader of French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party demanded the “utmost prudence” from his lawmakers on Friday after reports that some were poised to defect to a new political group, according to an internal memo.
Russian troops to help Venezuela search for members of failed incursion: report
Russian soldiers are operating drones over Venezuela as part of a search operation for members of a paramilitary force that led a botched invasion this week, local media reported on Friday, citing deleted tweets from a state military command center.
Colombian capital to lift gendered shopping rules
Colombia’s capital, Bogota, will lift rules that required men and women to shop on different days during the country’s coronavirus quarantine, the city’s mayor said on Friday.
Japan, faced with criticism, scrambles to do more coronavirus testing
The Japanese government, under fire for a limited number of coronavirus tests conducted, eased access to such tests on Friday and indicated that a new test supplementing the currently dominant polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test could be approved next…
Polish opposition demands minister’s dismissal over election ’embarrassment’
Polish opposition lawmakers on Friday called for the dismissal of a government minister tasked with organising Sunday’s presidential election, after the ruling coalition unexpectedly said the vote could not take place due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Britain facing no ‘dramatic overnight change’ in lockdown rules
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not announce any dramatic changes to Britain’s coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, adopting a cautious approach to try to ensure there is no second deadly peak of infections, his environment minister said.
Five wounded in shootout on Kyrgyz-Tajik border
Three Kyrgyz border guards and two Tajik citizens were wounded in a shootout on Friday in a disputed border area between the two former Soviet republic, authorities on both sides said, blaming each other for the violence.
Anarchy in Venezuela’s jails laid bare by massacre over food
Three weeks before he was shot dead, Miguel Calderon, an inmate in the lawless Los Llanos jail on Venezuela’s central plains, sent a voice message to his father.
