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Echoing a similar incident a month ago, Victoria police have been caught on camera forcibly arresting a pregnant woman for allegedly breaching the 5km radius rule being heavy-handedly enforced throughout the Australian state. Footage of the dramatic arrest circulated online, showing a handful of armed police officers towering over a woman – described as pregnant…

Matteo Salvini, head of the rightwing Lega Nord party, appeared in court over a 2019 order to bar migrants from disembarking onto Italy’s shores. The hearing was accompanied by rallies both in support and against the politician. People from both camps marched through Catania on Saturday, the second-largest city in Sicily, chanting slogans and carrying…

India has recorded 100,000 fatalities from Covid-19 after battling the lethal outbreak for seven months, becoming the third nation to cross the six-digit figure after the United States and Brazil, according to official tallies. The country’s total death toll sat at 100,842 on Saturday morning, on top of nearly 6.5 million infections, according to the…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a “warm greeting” to US President Donald Trump and the first lady upon learning they contracted the coronavirus, wishing them a speedy recovery. Kim “offered his sympathy to the president and the first lady” following their diagnoses, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported on Friday, adding that…

Israeli security forces have arrested senior Hamas leader Hassan Youssef. The two rival Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah, have both condemned the move as being politically-charged and a bid to ruin their reconciliation talks. Youssef was taken at his home in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Friday morning. While Israeli authorities have not…

Germany’s foreign minister, Heiko Maas, did not mince words after swastikas were drawn on a parchment containing verses from the Torah at a synagogue in Berlin. He said the crime should be solved as soon as possible. According to Berlin’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Sigmount Koenigsberg, the incident took place at the capital’s Tiferet Israel synagogue. A…

A leading ethicist is sounding the alarm over a flood of potentially substandard pandemic research which may endanger lives through ill-informed public policy, while damaging medical and scientific practice itself in the process. There has been a surge of almost 4,000 recently-published papers related to Covid-19, many of which have been of questionable quality, according…

Pro-Catalan independence activists have demanded Spain respect the results of the 2017 referendum, which was ruled unconstitutional by its top court. Fifteen people were detained in Barcelona after police dispersed the crowd. Hundreds of activists gathered on the Placa de Sant Jaume square in front of the regional government building in downtown Barcelona on Thursday…

NASA has announced that at least five asteroids are due for close flybys of Earth on October 1 alone. Meanwhile, researchers believe one giant impact in the past once removed up to 60 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. October appears to be kicking off with a bang as a barrage of space-borne boulders heads our way…

Conservative-led authorities in the Madrid region on Thursday criticized the Spanish government’s plan to confine the capital city in an effort to tackle a surge in Covid-19 cases. Announcing its plan late on Wednesday, the Health Ministry said the central government was overriding regional authorities to impose a lockdown of the city of over 3…

Researchers poring over archives from previous missions to Venus claim that NASA may have first detected phosphine signatures (indicating potential microbial life) back in 1978, and they just went unnoticed for the past 42 years. On September 14, the world was rocked by the announcement that phosphine, a toxic gas that might indicate microbial life,…