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The prime minister warned the French public it must take serious action to control a surge in cases.

The Planet Earth-observation company releases new imagery of Canada’s broken Milne Ice Shelf.

A Muslim call to prayer is broadcast and church bells toll a week after the devastating blast.

Four family members test positive for Covid-19 in Auckland, where a lockdown has now been imposed.

It’s been less than six weeks since a security law banning secession, subversion and collusion came into force in Hong Kong. But it’s already having a dramatic effect on the city’s political, media and online spheres.

I was meeting my friends at a sidewalk café in the Hamra district for a coffee when the earth shook under our feet. Someone yelled, “Earthquake!” But my friend, who’d lived through the 15-year Lebanese civil war from 1975 to 1990, screamed, “It’s an explosion!”

Even for 2020, with its once-in-a-generation global pandemic and the countless travel bans that have followed, this rescue mission seems a bit far-fetched.

The US president returned minutes later, saying that the Secret Service had shot a suspect.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is now in Lithuania as protests continue over Sunday’s disputed election.