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Beijing, Jan 13 (EFE).- The current wave of Covid-19 infections in China will continue to peak in places through February and March, the former chief epidemiologist at the country’s disease control center has said.  Zeng Guang said the epidemic would hit different phases throughout the country, and warned that there...

Kabul, Jan 12 (EFE).- Italian nonprofit Emergency, which runs one of the major hospitals in Kabul, on Thursday raised the number of wounded to over 40 a day after a suicide bombing against the Afghan foreign ministry, while the official death toll from the attack remains at five.  After the...

Madrid, Jan 12 (EFE).- A Spanish supreme court judge on Thursday dropped charges of sedition leveled against the former leader of the Catalonia region Carles Puigdemont after Spain’s government scrubbed the crime from the country’s penal code.  Puigdemont, who exiled himself to Belgium following Catalonia’s unsanctioned referendum and subsequent declaration...

Washington, Jan 12 (EFE).- United States president Joe Biden is coming under increased scrutiny after a second batch of classified documents was discovered in a separate location to an initial trove found in the office he used after serving as vice president under Barack Obama.  The discoveries reported by US...

Beijing, Jan 12 (EFE).- China is past the worst of its ongoing wave of coronavirus infections, the head of the Covid-response panel under the National health Commission, Liang Wannian, said in quotes released by state media outlet CGTN late on Wednesday.  «For the overall situation, the first wave of infections...

Tokyo, Jan 11 (EFE).- The Japanese health ministry has asked shops and pharmacies to check the bulk sale of medicines used to treat Covid, especially to tourists, following reports that several Chinese nationals were buying drugs to send home during their visit to Japan. «There is a lot of news...

Sydney, Australia, Jan 11 (EFE).- Australian Cardinal George Pell, who in 2018 became the highest-ranking Catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse before subsequently being acquitted of the charges, has died at the age of 81, church representatives in Australia announced on Wednesday. Pell, who was Vatican’s chief...

By Mónica RubalcavaLos Angeles, United States, Jan 10 (EFE).- The 80th Golden Globe Awards returned on Tuesday as an ode to diversity and Steven Spielberg, as the stars from Asian, Black and Latino communities took the centerstage and shared the hardships they have faced in making a place for themselves...

Paris, Jan 11 (EFE).- Several people were injured in a knife attack at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, authorities said Wednesday. Interior minister Gérald Darmanin said in a tweet that the suspect was swiftly “neutralized” by police. A police source told news outlet FranceInfo that an officer...

Lviv, Ukraine, Jan 9 (EFE).- At least two people were killed and several others were wounded, including a minor, Ukrainian officials said, after Russian missiles struck a market in a recently liberated town in the northeast region of Kharkiv on Monday morning. «The occupiers launched a missile attack on Shevchenkove...

Tehran, Jan 9 (EFE).- An Iranian court has sentenced high-profile footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani to 26 years in prison for his alleged involvement in killing three security officers during nationwide anti-government protests. Mizan news agency reported on Monday that three more protesters were given the death penalty after being convicted for...

Paris, Jan 9 (EFE).- Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappé and the French government have accused the president of the French football federation of disrespecting Zinedine Zidane during an inflammatory interview in which he said he would not pick up the phone to the France legend. Noël Le Graët’s remarks came a...