Business Recorder

WARSAW: Poles voted on Sunday in a razor edge presidential run-off election between a populist incumbent allied with...

PARIS: A French court has sentenced to jail two former agents from the foreign intelligence service after convicting...

• EU diplomatic chief Josep Borrell and Crisis Management Commissioner Janez Lenarcic said that authorising only one crossing would hamper the delivery of aid.

• Worldwide, a total of at least 12,736,737 infections, including 565,151 deaths, have been recorded.

• The borrowing comes on top of the 218.5 billion euros of debt the Federal Government plans to issue to help finance support to an economy.
• Der Spiegel calculated, after surveying regional finance ministries, that Germany's states, which enjoy wide autonomy under the country's highly devolved system of governance,

• Judges of a criminal court, which held a trial behind closed doors, sentenced the two men to terms of eight and 12 years respectively for treason.
• A third person, said by France Info to be the spouse of one of the former agents, received a four-year sentence.

LONDON: A British man was jailed on Friday for attempting to steal a priceless 1215 original version of Magna Carta,...

GENEVA: The World Health Organization said Friday that it is still possible to bring coronavirus outbreaks under...

• France has the sixth-highest number of fatalities in the global pandemic after the US, Brazil, Britain, Italy and Mexico.

• Sixth-century building was church for 900 years, mosque for 500.
• Secular state under Ataturk ordered 1934 conversion to museum.
• Supporters of conversion underline Turkey's Muslim identity.

• Moody's said the UK government's latest 30 billion pound ($37.9 billion) stimulus package, announced this week.
• "The UK's public debt ratio will likely rise by 24 percentage points of GDP or more relative to 2019 levels,"

• Michel lowers overall budget to placate thrifty northerners.
• COVID-19 pandemic latest challenge for EU, some say existential.

• UK heading for budget gap of 350 bln pounds – IFS.
• More help for economy like in autumn - think-tanks.
• UK response so far smaller than US.
• Sunak acknowledges "dead weight" in his rescue plan.

• Governments need to act to avoid emissions rebound-IEA.
• Britain says next year's COP26 will be a landmark moment.

• We need to stop wasting money on fossil fuel subsidies and place a price on carbon, Guterres said.

• Earlier that day the FSB security agency arrested a respected former journalist, Ivan Safronov, 30, on suspicion of state treason.

ROME: A hospital in Rome said on Tuesday it had successfully separated two-year-old twins joined above the nape of...

PRAGUE: Two people died and dozens were injured Tuesday when two passenger trains collided near the western Czech ...

• The number of people who died in hospitals increased by 34 to 19,457, compared to the daily average of 23 over the past seven days.

• "The outbreak is accelerating and we've clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press conference.

• The new coronavirus can spread through the air far beyond two metres, an group of 239 international scientists said Monday.

• The 25 Russians included on the sanctions list drawn up by Britain's Foreign Office were included for their alleged involvement in the death of Magnitsky.

• The migrants, including 59 children and 46 women, came from Afghanistan, Syria, Bangladesh and Iran.

• Health Minister said that a one-week suspension of flights had been ordered.

• "The talks this week are slightly more informal in nature," Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said.

• Around 1.7 million people were infected last year, and there are now close to 40 million people living with HIV worldwide.

LONDON: People in England appear to have broadly behaved themselves as pubs reopened this weekend, Britain's health...

• Spain has registered 205,545 coronavirus cases and 28,385 deaths according to health ministry data.

• The authorities said that 134 people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 10,161.

• The reported death toll rose by 2 to 9,012, the tally showed.