Kyrgyzstan reopens borders to all foreign visitors

Dec 6,2020
Kyrgyzstan on Saturday announced that citizens of all countries would be allowed to enter the Central Asian country, lifting border restrictions it had instituted at the start of the pandemic in the spring.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth to get Covid-19 vaccine 'in weeks': reports
Dec 06
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, after UK regulators granted emergency approval and the world's first roll-out begins next week, reports late Saturday said.
'Millionaire's tax' for virus relief passes Argentina Senate
Dec 05
Argentina's Senate passed a tax on about 12,000 of the country's richest people on Friday, to pay for coronavirus measures including medical supplies and relief for the poor and small businesses.
After troop cuts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump orders pullout from Somalia
Dec 05
President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of most US military and security personnel from Somalia, where they have been conducting operations against the Al-Shabaab militant group, the Pentagon said Friday
Canada Covid surge sees 100,000 new cases in two weeks
Dec 05
Canada's second wave of Covid-19 infections has led to 100,000 new cases reported in just the last two weeks, data compiled by public broadcaster CBC showed Friday. There has now been a total of 400,031 cases in the country of 38 million people.
Indian educator wins $1 million global teaching prize
Dec 04
An Indian teacher was on Thursday named the winner of a $1 million (£774,700, €823,175) prize for his work transforming the lives of young girls in a rural village.
UN condemns deadly attack on students in western Libya
Dec 04
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Thursday condemned a deadly attack on school children in the city of Al Ajaylat, some 80 km west of the capital Tripoli.