‘Another pandemic’: In Latin America, domestic abuse rises amid lockdown
By Lucila Sigal, Natalia A. Ramos Miranda, Ana Isabel Martinez and Monica Machicao
China will improve key technologies and capability to handle emergencies
China will speed up the development of key technologies and improve its capability to handle emergencies in response to the coronavirus pandemic, state television reported Monday, quoting a top-level meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping.
UK PM Johnson to meet Labour leader, parties to build coronavirus consensus
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson with meet the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, this week and other party leaders next week, his spokesman said on Monday, part of efforts to build consensus over plans to ease a coronavirus lockd…
Builders back at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris after coronavirus shutdown
Construction workers were back at the burned shell of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday, resuming the mammoth task of rebuilding after the coronavirus outbreak forced a pause of a month and a half.
Turkish ruling party, lawyers clash over cleric comments on homosexuality
A suggestion by Turkey’s leading Muslim cleric that homosexuality causes illness has prompted a clash between President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party and the country’s lawyer assocations over freedom of expression.
Netherlands reports 400 new coronavirus cases, 43 deaths – health authorities
The Netherlands’ number of confirmed coronavirus cases has risen by 400 to 38,245 health authorities said on Monday, with 43 new deaths.
To push telework, Japan taking another look at ancient ‘seal’ custom
With efforts to promote telecommuting lagging despite the coronavirus crisis, Japan is taking another look at an ancient custom that stubbornly remains an analogue anomaly in an otherwise high-tech nation: the need to stamp documents with seals.
Belgian COVID-19 hospital entries at lowest since lockdown start
Belgian hospitals admitted the lowest number of COVID-19 patients since the start of the lockdown almost seven weeks ago, figures showed on Monday, a week before the country starts to ease restrictions.
Tokyo reports fewest new coronavirus cases in 4 weeks, calls for vigilance
Metropolitan Tokyo confirmed 39 more cases of coronavirus infection on Monday, Governor Yuriko Koike said, the fewest since March 30 and the second consecutive day of new cases below triple digits.
Coronavirus forces delay in U.S. extradition case against Assange
Hearings in the U.S. extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not go ahead next month as scheduled because of the coronavirus lockdown which prevents lawyers from attending court, a British judge decided on Monday.
