France wants its citizens to holiday at home this summer
The French government does not want its citizens to travel abroad this summer and recommends they take their holidays in France, Environment Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Sunday.
Netanyahu says he has been framed as corruption trial starts
Benjamin Netanyahu professed his innocence at the start of his corruption trial on Sunday, saying he was being framed in the first criminal prosecution of a serving Israeli prime minister.
Newsmaker: Britain’s Brexit mastermind fights for job over claims of lockdown hubris
Dominic Cummings, the mastermind of Brexit who openly scorned the British elite, is fighting for his job as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s senior adviser after claims he flouted the government’s coronavirus lockdown rules.
Fifty-three workers at AngloGold Ashanti mine in South Africa have coronavirus
Underground production at AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng mine in South Africa will remain closed until further notice after 53 employees tested positive for the coronavirus, a provincial health department said in a statement on Sunday.
China’s Wuhan says conducted 1,146,156 COVID-19 tests on May 23
The city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 1,146,156 nucleic acid tests on May 23, the local health authority said on Sunday, compared with 1,470,950 tests a day earlier.
Hong Kong police fire tear gas as thousands protest security law
Hong Kong police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands who, in defiance of curbs imposed to contain the coronavirus, gathered on Sunday to protest against Beijing’s plan to directly impose national security laws on the city.
Netanyahu arrives at court for corruption trial, says case aimed at ‘toppling me, in any way possible’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived on Sunday at the Jerusalem court for the start of his corruption trial and said his opponents were aiming to oust him.
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Grenell to step down: dpa
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell is planning to step down in the coming weeks after little more than two years in the job, German news agency dpa reported on Sunday, without saying where it obtained the information.
Adviser Cummings enters UK PM’s Downing Street residence: Sky News reporter
Boris Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings, facing mounting calls to resign over a journey he made during the coronavirus lockdown, was seen entering the prime minister’s Downing Street residence on Sunday morning, a Sky News reporter said on Twit…
Factbox: Dominic Cummings – UK PM Johnson’s cardinal of Brexit
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings, who faces calls to resign over a journey made during the coronavirus lockdown, was the architect of Brexit who has become one of the most powerful men in the British government.
