Austrians will go into a three-week coronavirus lockdown in response to stubbornly increasing case numbers and shrinking hospital capacity, the government announced on Saturday. Starting on Tuesday and lasting until December 6, schools will switch to distance learning, most shops will be closed and a curfew will come into force, while people are asked to […]

The Islamic State on Saturday said it had staged a midweek ambush which killed 14 soldiers in jihadist-hit Burkina Faso ahead of elections this month. The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara said it carried out the raid, one of the worst on troops, in a message carried on its Amaq news outlet and carried […]

Elected Libyan officials called on Saturday for a constitution to be approved before national elections are held, without challenging the date of the polls which were announced a day earlier. Libya has been gripped by chaos and violence since the 2011 ouster and killing of longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a NATO-backed popular uprising. Rival […]

Conservatives backing President Donald Trump’s claims of election malfesance have sparked a migration to alternative social media sites which have refrained from filtering unverified claims. The shift has boosted right-wing favourites like Parler, Newsmax and Rumble which have rejected the approach of Facebook and Twitter in labelling and limiting the reach of conspiracy theories. Parler, […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday warned of a difficult winter to come, two weeks into a month-long nationwide partial shutdown aimed at dampening coronavirus case numbers. “The coming winter will make heavy demands of us all,” Merkel said in her weekly podcast. Her comments come at the halfway point of a month-long set of […]