Europe
WHO deploys help to refugees and migrants in Lesvos’s
In a catastrophic fire that broke out on 8 September 2020, the Moria reception and identification centre for asylum seekers and refugees on Lesvos, Greece, was burned to the ground.…
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Has COVID-19 destroyed the case for banning the burqa in Europe?
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown up an interesting paradox in European countries that have banned the full-face veil. In some French cities, for example, failure to cover your face and…
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As covid fatigue fuels infections in Europe, Italy resists the second wave
Ms. Grazioli, a self-proclaimed social butterfly who loves to cook for guests, still hasn’t had friends over for dinner since the virus struck. “Am I overdoing it?" says Ms. Grazioli.…
America
EU summit postponed after president quarantined – as it happened
We’ve launched a new blog at the link below – head there for the latest: Coronavirus live news: UK restrictions could last six months as WHO reports record weekly case…
Food
Neogen Corporation (NEOG) CEO John Adent on Q1 2021 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ:NEOG) Q1 2021 Earnings Conference Call September 22, 2020 11:00 AM ET Company Participants John Adent - Chief Executive Officer and President Steve Quinlan - Chief Financial Officer…
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Look at both ‘full and empty parts’ of global glass, Turkey urges Member States
Speaking on the first day of the UN High-level General Debate, the President of Turkey stressed the need to “accurately and sincerely evaluate” what is happening in the world today.
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Nobel laureate: pandemic could undo progress in children’s rights – Vatican News
Kailash Satyarthi, India’s leading crusader against child slavery and child trafficking, fears that progress made against the scourges could roll back because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
America
Europe and the New Middle East
Alliances in the Middle East are changing but the EU has been little engaged with the new diplomatic shifts and risks becoming irrelevant in the region, writes Jonathan Spyer. Jonathan…
Christianity
Pilgrim who worked in leper colony could become first Catholic saint from Zimbabwe
John Bradburne, a wandering English pilgrim, settled among a group of lepers in what is now Zimbabwe. The story of his life and as the strange events surrounding his death…
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Global solution to COVID-19 in sight, ‘we sink or we swim together’ – WHO chief
Roughly 64 per cent of the global population lives in a nation that has either committed to, or is eligible to join, the coronavirus Vaccines Global Access Facility, or COVAX,…