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While many countries struggle with a second wave of the coronavirus, Finland has halted a rise in new infections at Europe's lowest level, helped by the fact that for Finns social distancing comes naturally.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government said on Monday it had captured another town in the northern Tigray region after nearly two weeks of fighting in a conflict already spilling into Eritrea and destabilising the wider Horn of Africa.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was well after coming into contact with someone with COVID19 and will drive the government forward via Zoom while in selfisolation in Downing Street.

Tradedependent Taiwan has made "relatively" good progress towards joining the revamped version of the TransPacific Partnership, but it is awaiting clearer rules on membership, the island's chief trade negotiator said on Monday.

France has registered 27,228 new confirmed cases of COVID19 and a further 302 deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Sunday, although there were signs of a fall in the rate of new cases.

Egypt on Saturday showcased more than 100 coffins dating back 25,000 years, the latest and largest find this year in the vast burial ground of the Saqqara Necropolis.

Boardedup windows outside flagship branches of department stores Galeries Lafayette and Printemps bore testimony on Saturday to the impact of a COVID19 lockdown in Paris.

The new policy requires inbound travellers to present negative results from an antibody test — which can neither reliably rule out infections nor prove that a person is not transmitting the virus to others.

Two airports in Ethiopia's Amhara state which neighbours Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces were targeted by rocket fire late on Friday, the government said, as an 11day conflict widened.

Britain had originally planned to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel-powered cars from 2040, as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and in February Johnson brought this forward to 2035.

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down on the streets of Tehran by two assassins on a motorcycle on August 7, the anniversary of the embassy attacks. He was killed along with his daughter, Miriam, the...

Denmark has not registered any new examples of humans infected with a socalled Cluster5 mutated coronavirus strain stemming from mink, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said on Friday.

Russia marked five years under suspension from international track and field on Friday, with its return from the doping sanction seemingly still far away.

Spain will expand naval patrols around the Canary Islands and set up more migrant centres in response to a surge of arrivals from Africa, including more than 2,000 people last weekend, the regional policy minister said on Friday.

The election of Democrat Joseph Biden could create more headaches for the Dakota Access Pipeline's (DAPL) owners, who are already embroiled in legal battles to keep the main conduit for flowing oil out of North Dakota running.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed the nation in two videos on Thursday, his first appearance since being hospitalised after testing positive for COVID19 this week.