Europe

Body of Syrian national found in Poland near Belarusian border

Warsaw [Poland], November 13 (ANI/Sputnik): A body of a Syrian national was found in Poland near the border with Belarus, the Polish police said.

2021-11-13T13:27:57.928393+00:00 IST

OIC falling for Islamabad's false narrative on Kashmir, says PoK activist

Glasgow [UK], November 13 (ANI): A Kashmiri political activist has lambasted the visit of a delegation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) this week.

2021-11-13T12:55:46.212738+00:00 IST

Bundestag President urges Germans to avoid big Christmas, New Year events amid COVID surge

Berlin [Germany], November 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The president of the German federal parliament Bundestag, Barbel Bas told German citizens on Saturday to stay away from large-scale Christmas and New Year celebrations this winter, amid an influx of positive COVID-19 cases.

2021-11-13T11:53:44.876530+00:00 IST

Polish border guards say migrants fired tear gas at them allegedly provided by Belarus

Warsaw [Poland], November 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Polish border guards said on Saturday that migrants fired tear gas against them, which the refugees allegedly had received from the Belarusian security forces.

2021-11-13T10:14:18.304740+00:00 IST

Germany records 50,000 COVID-19 cases and 235 deaths in last 24 hrs

Berlin [Germany], November 13 (ANI): The COVID-19 situation in Germany continues to deteriorate, as the daily number of cases of the deadly infection has surpassed 50,000 once again.

2021-11-13T09:33:03.283883+00:00 IST

New migrants arrive daily at makeshift refugee camp at Belarusian-Polish border

Minsk [Belarus], November 13 (ANI/Sputnik): A makeshift refugee camp on the Belarusian-Polish border daily receives new groups of migrants, Anton Bychkovsky, a spokesman for the State Border Committee of Belarus, told Sputnik on Saturday.

2021-11-13T08:55:22.730938+00:00 IST

Russia registers 39,256 new coronavirus cases in past 24 hours

Moscow [Russia], November 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 39,256 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, which brings the total since the beginning of the pandemic to 9,031,851, the federal response center said Saturday.

2021-11-13T08:43:12.183485+00:00 IST

Canada sees rising daily COVID-19 count over past week

Ottawa [Canada], November 13 (ANI/Xinhua): Canada reported an average daily count of nearly 2,500 COVID-19 cases over the past week, up by 11 per cent from a week before, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said on Friday.

2021-11-13T07:23:15.219871+00:00 IST

Russia does not see any progress on prisoners exchange with US

Moscow [Russia], November 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia does not see any progress on the prisoners exchange with the United States after the July summit held by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, in Geneva; the Russian Foreign Ministry's Commissioner for Human Rights Grigory Lukyantsev said.

2021-11-13T05:53:01.768714+00:00 IST

UN climate conference to continue into Saturday afternoon: COP26 president

Glasgow [Scotland], November 13 (ANI/Xinhua): Alok Sharma, president of the ongoing United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, said Friday that he expected the negotiations for a deal will continue into Saturday afternoon.

2021-11-13T05:42:58.951561+00:00 IST

International community calls for free, fair, inclusive, credible elections in Libya

Paris [France], November 13 (ANI/Xinhua): Participants in the Paris International Conference for Libya, chaired Friday by France, called for the holding of free, fair, inclusive and credible presidential and parliamentary elections on December 24 in Libya as scheduled.

2021-11-13T01:03:15.263642+00:00 IST

Brazil logs over 21.93 million COVID-19 cases

Brasilia [Brazil], November 13 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil has increased by 14,598 to 21,939,196 within the past 24 hours, the national Ministry of Health said on late Friday.

2021-11-13T00:32:29.667285+00:00 IST

Germany ready to provide observers for Libya's elections on December 24: Merkel

Berlin [Germany], November 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Germany is ready to provide observers for Libyan elections on December 24 to ensure transparency of the process, Chancellor Angela Merkel said during the press conference following the Paris Summit on Libya.

2021-11-12T23:14:05.295287+00:00 IST

France urges Russia to use ties with Minsk to resolve migrants border crisis

Paris [France], November 12 (ANI/Sputnik): French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Defense Minister Florence Parly urged their Russian counterparts, Sergey Lavrov and Sergei Shoigu, at a meeting in Paris to use their close ties with Minsk to resolve the crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border, the French Foreign Ministry said in a communique.

2021-11-12T17:57:04.203938+00:00 IST

Poland sees Russian Paratroopers' exercises in Belarus as threat

Warsaw [Poland], November 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Poland sees exercises in Belarus by Russian paratroopers as a threat, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz said on Friday.

2021-11-12T17:23:58.692907+00:00 IST

NATO Secretary-General, EU defence chiefs to meet Tuesday for informal talks

Brussels [Belgium], November 12 (ANI/Sputnik): NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg will have informal talks with EU defence ministers over lunch in Brussels on Tuesday.

2021-11-12T15:59:31.224233+00:00 IST

No-confidence motion against gov't of North Macedonia fails

Skopje [North Macedonia], November 12 (ANI/Xinhua): Opposition parties in North Macedonia failed to secure enough lawmakers for a no-confidence motion voting on Thursday in the parliament to oust Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and his cabinet.

2021-11-12T15:28:45.891555+00:00 IST

End of election campaign, Bulgarians vote on November 14

Sofia [Bulgaria], November 12 (ANI/Novinite): The election campaign for the elections for the 47th National Assembly and the elections for president and vice-president of Bulgaria ends at 24.00 hrs on November 12.

2021-11-12T13:48:46.854523+00:00 IST

Locally produced Sputnik V vaccine to be available in Belarus in summer of 2022

Minsk [Belarus], November 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Batches of Russian-developed Sputnik V vaccine manufactured in Belarus will be ready for distribution in the summer of 2022, with Belarus expected to churn out about 10 million doses per year, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said on Friday.

2021-11-12T13:33:59.476784+00:00 IST

Pakistan joins hand with Taliban to destroy Afghan identity, culture: Former Pak senator

Amsterdam [Netherlands], November 12 (ANI): A former senator of Pakistan from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has accused Islamabad of joining hands with the Taliban to "destroy" Afghan identity and its culture.

2021-11-12T11:56:06.833558+00:00 IST

New COP26 draft declaration waters down calls to end fossil fuel use

London [UK], November 12 (ANI/Sputnik) - A new draft of the final declaration being negotiated at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow published on Friday appears to back away from a previous call to end all use of coal and phase out fossil fuels.

2021-11-12T10:06:19.764118+00:00 IST