Business Recorder

• The overall number of unemployed people rose to 278,824 in July from 269,637 in June, the data showed.

• Strict rules have been drawn up to limit transmission of the new coronavirus, with cases across Germany rising above 500 per day in recent weeks.

• While the freedom to demonstrate was "important", the "images we saw this weekend were unacceptable", said Demmer.

• According to media reports, the girl was not the target in the "drive-by" shooting at a fast-food restaurant and the gunmen had been actually aiming at two members of a criminal gang instead.

• Ruling the Belgians between 1865 and 1909, Leopold II was revered at home as the builder of his country, but his legacy came under the spotlight this year as anti-racist protests spread around the world.

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• The Health Ministry reported 657 new cases and seven deaths, taking the total number of cases since the pandemic began to 45,688 and the death toll to 1,716.
• Of the new cases, 227 were in the Silesia region, where there has been an outbreak among coal miners.

• "Negotiating rounds will take place in August and in September, unless agreed otherwise between the parties," according to a document Frost posted on Twitter.

• The rate is still more than double the 3.7pc seen in February, the last full month of regular economic activity before the lockdown began.

• The ministry reported seven new deaths, with a total of 45,688 reported coronavirus cases and 1,716 deaths.

• Reducing inequality between Spain's regions must be a part of any eventual recovery, he said, adding that the worst moments of the crisis had now passed.

• President Klaus Iohannis ordered a strict lockdown in March to help rein in the spread and then replaced the state of emergency with a softer state of alert mode.

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• Both Tikhanovsky and Statkevich were jailed in the run-up to the polls.

• There were 1,229 new cases on Thursday, bringing the total to 285,430.

• "I have been very focused on making sure the Arctic stays a very low tension area," said Jakobsdottir.

• The virus circulation is sustained with new daily cases increasing by more than 1,000 ... Swift and sweeping efforts are necessary.
• At the peak of the pandemic, early April, there were more than 7,000 people in ICUs being treated for coronavirus.

• PM: we cannot delude ourselves pandemic is over.
• Britain's daily COVID-19 cases hit one-month high.
• UK imposed 14-day quarantine on arrivals from Spain.
• Minister: same could apply to other countries within days.

• At the weekend, a man in the coastal city of Danang tested positive for COVID-19 -- the first community transmission the country had detected since April.

• Officials said 129 people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 13,802.

• "It's true that the number of cases is at best flat whereas before it was falling, and that's because there's been more social contact," he said.

• The May rate was previously reported as 7.8pc and ISTAT said the health emergency was proving an obstacle to gathering data.

• "This was the sharpest decline since the quarterly GDP calculations for Germany began in 1970," the statistics office said.

• The health ministry also said on its Twitter account that the number of documented deaths had risen by 15 to 1,709 so far.

• The Health Ministry also unveiled plans to ramp up testing capacity, which Health Minister Adam Vojtech said was currently at around 17,000 daily.

• Earlier in the day the Belarus security service arrested a group of 32 Russian fighters allegedly plotting to destabilise the country.

• Cyprus has confirmed 1,080 coronavirus cases since the outbreak in March, including 19 deaths.

• Spain has been struggling to contain a surge in new infections.