Prague district mayor says he is under police protection against Russian threat
The mayor of one of the Czech capital’s districts said on Tuesday he had been put under police protection due to a threat that a Russian man had been sent to kill him, escalating a row between Prague and Moscow.
Death toll in Peru prison riot over coronavirus demands rises to nine
Nine inmates have died after a prison riot in Peru over demands for better sanitary measures and coronavirus medical care, the country’s prison authority said on Tuesday,
Canadian province sends nurses to northern community hit by COVID-19
The Canadian province of Ontario has dispatched nurses to a remote northern indigenous community hit hard by the coronavirus to conduct testing and provide healthcare support, the local leader said on Tuesday.
Saudi cabinet says conditions in Yemen’s Aden should return to before STC declaration
Saudi Arabia’s cabinet stressed that conditions in Yemen’s Aden and some southern governorates should return to the way they were before the Southern Transitional Council (STC) declared a state of emergency, state news agency (SPA) reported on Tuesday….
Bolivia, Chile strike deal to return stranded Bolivian migrants home
Chile and Bolivia agreed on Tuesday to allow several hundred Bolivians stranded in a makeshift tent camp in Santiago to quarantine for 14 days and then return home, Chile’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
Protester killed in Tripoli as Lebanon hit by unrest
Protests against growing economic hardship erupted in Tripoli and spread to other Lebanese cities on Tuesday, with banks set ablaze after a night of rioting that left one demonstrator dead, according to security and medical sources.
Bolsonaro taps family friend as Brazil top cop, Supreme Court OKs probe
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday named a family friend to head the federal police, days after his justice minister quit and accused the president of meddling in law enforcement for political motives.
Mozambique forces killed over 100 Islamist insurgents in past month: government
Mozambique security forces killed at least 129 insurgents in the northern Cabo Delgado region that has been besieged by violence for at least the last three years, the interior minister said on Tuesday.
Morocco rejects accusation of police abuse in enforcing lockdown
Morocco rejected allegations of police brutality in enforcing a lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, after an official in the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights included it in a list of countries where crackdowns had ra…
Tusk urges Poles to shun May presidential vote out of ‘decency’
Polish voters should boycott a presidential election set for May 10 out of “basic human decency” because of the new coronavirus pandemic, Donald Tusk, leader of the centre-right European People’s Party and a former prime minister, said on Tuesday.
