Europe

Queen Elizabeth II to miss Remembrance Sunday ceremony over back strain

London [UK], November 14 (ANI/Sputnik): UK's Queen Elizabeth II will not attend the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph war memorial in London over back strain, Sky News said on Sunday, citing Buckingham Palace.

2021-11-14T11:00:26.050245+00:00 IST

Europe hits highest weekly COVID-19 cases since pandemic began

Geneva [Switzerland], November 14 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) has informed that almost two million cases of COVID-19 were reported in Europe last week, the most in a single week in that region since the pandemic started.

2021-11-14T10:52:47.793789+00:00 IST

3 killed in Bulgarian hospital fire

Sofia [Bulgaria], November 14 (ANI/Xinhua): Three patients were killed on Sunday when a fire broke out in a hospital in Bulgaria's southeastern town of Sliven, officials said.

2021-11-14T10:09:10.362818+00:00 IST

Polish police say about 50 migrants broke into polish territory from Belarus

Minsk [Belarus], November 14 (ANI/Sputnik): About 50 people stormed their way over to the Polish side of the border with Belarus a day earlier, with 22 of them detained, the police of the Podlaska voivodship said Sunday.

2021-11-14T09:04:27.774164+00:00 IST

Russia registers 38,823 new COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours

Moscow [Russia], November 14 (ANI/Sputnik): As many as 38,823 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded in Russia within the past 24-hour period, the federal response center said on Sunday.

2021-11-14T08:52:42.897957+00:00 IST

Protests outside Chinese embassy in UK over Beijing's treatment of Uyghurs

London [UK], November 14 (ANI): Protests were held outside the Chinese embassy in London and consulate in Manchester against China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims, demanding Beijing to close the concentration camps in Xinjiang province.

2021-11-14T08:51:44.166252+00:00 IST

Germany reintroduces free COVID-19 tests amid rising corona cases

Berlin [Germany], November 14 (ANI): Germany has resumed free COVID-19 tests from Saturday (local time), as the country is reeling under the fourth wave of the pandemic. This comes one month after the country had ended free COVID-19 testing in October.

2021-11-14T06:38:40.041792+00:00 IST

UK Foreign Secretary says Russia has 'clear responsibility in Belarus-Poland border crisis'

London [UK], November 14 (ANI/Sputnik): British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has accused Moscow of bearing responsibility for the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border.

2021-11-14T05:39:22.945223+00:00 IST

Gas explosion in Mexico City leaves one dead, 12 injured

Mexico City [Mexico], November 14 (ANI/Xinhua): An explosion caused by accumlation of gas inside a house in Mexico City killed one person and injured 12 others on Saturday, authorities said.

2021-11-14T02:05:34.610299+00:00 IST

Ganga Connect exhibition in UK invites Indian diaspora to restore, conserve holy river

Cardiff [UK], November 14 (ANI): After a successful debut at COP-26, Glasgow, the Ganga Connect exhibition was inaugurated at Cardiff University on Friday by Rt. Hon. Mark Drakeford MS, First Minister of Wales and Gaitri Issar Kumar, Indian High Commissioner to the UK.

2021-11-14T01:31:12.783028+00:00 IST

Russia starts supplying S-400 Air Defense Systems to India: Govt

Moscow [Russia], November 14 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia has started delivering the S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile systems to India, the deliveries are going as planned, Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) Dmitry Shugaev told Sputnik ahead of the Dubai Airshow.

2021-11-14T00:59:00.412375+00:00 IST

Iraq to send emergency flight to evacuate its stranded national in Belarus

Baghdad [Iraq], November 14 (ANI/Xinhua): The Iraqi authorities on Saturday decided to send emergency flights to evacuate stranded Iraqi migrants who want to return voluntarily from Belarus to Iraq.

2021-11-14T00:15:42.001160+00:00 IST

Russia's COVID-19 cases cross 9 million

Moscow [Russia], November 14 (ANI): Russia's COVID-19 cases have crossed nine million since the beginning of the pandemic, local media reported.

2021-11-13T23:56:30.412833+00:00 IST

PM Johnson says UK has made huge progress on coal, cars, cash and trees, calls COP26 deal 'big step forward'

Glasgow [UK], November 14 (ANI): After the conclusion of COP26, Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday that the United Kingdom has made huge progress on coal, cars, cash and trees and called the global deal that has been reached at the United Nations climate change conference here on Saturday a "big step forward".

2021-11-13T23:55:22.843323+00:00 IST

COP26 concludes with global deal on climate change

Glasgow [UK], November 14 (ANI): A global deal on averting the worst impacts of climate change has been reached at COP26 in the United Nations climate change conference here on Saturday, as per a media report.

2021-11-13T22:59:03.387716+00:00 IST

5 killed during mass demonstrations in Sudan

Khartoum [Sudan], November 14 (ANI/Xinhua): At least five protesters were killed on Saturday during mass demonstrations in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and other cities, the health ministry in the dissolved Sudanese government announced.

2021-11-13T21:00:27.486961+00:00 IST

Polish Interior Ministry prepares bill to tighten rules at border

Warsaw [Poland], November 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The Polish Interior Ministry has prepared a bill to amend the border protection law to indefinitely extend provisions in the country's border areas that are currently in place under a state of emergency, Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said on Saturday.

2021-11-13T17:27:23.603819+00:00 IST

COVID-19 in Bulgaria: 3146 new cases, 175 deaths, 3007 vaccinated in last 24 hrs

Sofia [Bulgaria], November 13 (ANI/Novinite): For the last 24 hours, 3146 new cases of coronavirus infection have been registered in Bulgaria with 41,369 tests performed, according to the data of the Unified Information Portal.

2021-11-13T17:05:30.910413+00:00 IST

New COP26 draft agreement urges countries to scale up use of clean power generation, energy efficiency measures

Glasgow [UK], November 13 (ANI): In its new draft agreement published on Saturday, the COP26 climate summit held in Glasgow urged countries to rapidly scale up the use of clean power generation and energy efficiency measures.

2021-11-13T16:13:00.591628+00:00 IST

Woman film director who fled Afghanistan urges world to push Taliban to accept some conditions of democratic society

Rome [Italy], November 13 (ANI): Afghan female film director Sahraa Karimi urged the international community to not recognize the Taliban easily and to push the group to accept some conditions of a democratic society.

2021-11-13T15:50:27.093142+00:00 IST

UNESCO celebrates 75th anniversary

Paris [France], November 13 (ANI/VOVWORLD): World leaders, social activists, and artists marked the 75th anniversary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at a special ceremony in UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, on Friday.

2021-11-13T13:34:38.160233+00:00 IST