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As Sweden’s government further tightened its coronavirus recommendations to control rising infection rates, The Local spoke to the country’s Health Minister Lena Hallengren.When my colleague at The Local interviewed you in May, you said that you wouldn’t have wanted to have imposed a lockdown, even if you could have done. I wondered if that’s still the […]

Security personnel stand in front of the SANKO University Hospital following a fire, in Gaziantep, Dec. 19, 2020. (AA Photo)  Eight people were killed Saturday in a fire at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients in southeastern Turkey. The fire started when an oxygen cylinder exploded at the privately-run Sanko University Hospital unit in […]

Italy will be placed under nationwide measures from Monday, December 21st, prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Friday night, amid fears of a coronavirus ‘third wave’. The whole country will be placed under additional nationwide restrictions for the entire Christmas period, from December 21st until Epiphany on January 6th, Conte announced. talian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gives […]

More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped last week in an attack on their school in northwest Nigeria have arrived in the capital of Katsina state amid celebrations of their release.Television pictures on Friday showed the boys, many of them wearing light green uniforms and clutching blankets, arriving on buses, looking weary but otherwise well.   Freed […]

Deb Haaland could become the first Native American to lead a US governmental department after she was nominated for interior secretary on Thursday by President-elect Joe Biden.Haaland, 60, is a member of the Pueblo of Laguna and, as she likes to say, a 35th-generation resident of New Mexico. In this March 5, 2020, file photo […]

Police in Australia killed a young man of Somali origin who “made verbal and physical threats,” while his lawyer says the victim “clearly suffered a serious mental health event,” local media reported on Thursday. Raghe Mohamed Abdi, 22, was “armed with a knife” when he was shot and killed by officers on a busy highway, […]

No fewer than 344 of the students kidnapped from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, last Friday night, have been released. Abdul Labaran, the Director-General, Media, Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State confirmed the release of the students to Vanguard. Some of the students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State Labaran […]

Sweden has been harder hit by a winter resurgence in coronavirus than it hoped for. Will the sharper tone from authorities and calls for the public to take greater personal sacrifices be enough to turn the tide over Christmas?The capital Stockholm is once again at the epicentre of the epidemic and this week called on […]

Italy is to be effectively placed under a nationwide lockdown over much of the Christmas and New Year period, under new measures expected to be announced on Thursday. After days of drawn-out discussions, Italy’s government has on Thursday reportedly reached an agreement on further coronavirus restrictions to be enforced over the Christmas holidays. A cyclist […]

December 16, 2020 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese army accused the Ethiopian army and its militias, of ambushing its forces inside the Sudanese territory, killing 4 elements, including an army officer and wounding 12 others.The attack which is perceived as a new escalation from Sudan against its troops comes a few days after an accusation by […]