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In September 2015, at the peak of a migrant crisis instigated by Germany’s open-door policy, the European Commission ordered the transfer of 160,000 refugees and asylum-seekers from the most affected Mediterranean states. Poland and Hungary voted against the quotas and refused to take in a single person; the Czech Republic took just 12 immigrants.

While some residents from the neighboring districts were slated to be evacuated due to the threat posed by the bomb, others were told to remain indoors during the defusing process.

New Delhi (Sputnik):  India announced a national lockdown on 24 March to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 21-day quarantine has brought the country to a standstill, suspending all means of transport and shuttering nearly all business establishments except those providing emergency services.

Mr Johnson tested positive for COVID-19 last Friday and has been in self-isolation since then. As of 2 April, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK stands at 29,872, with 2,357 deaths.

The US-based micro-blogging and social networking service regularly responds to requests to delete content and accounts, including information posted by the officials or media services of countries with whom Washington has strained relations.

An ongoing case between Parisian authorities and apartment owners has brought this highlighted the tension between major capital cities and house-sharing companies such as Airbnb, who they have accused of worsening the housing crisis for low-income residents.

The bombshell decision by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to lay down their royal duties and move to Los Angeles unsurprisingly inflicted some additional security costs, and according to the US president’s recent Twitter rant, he was not about to pay for the couple’s protection in their newly found home.

There has been growing concern over what civil liberties groups and segments of the public see as overreach by governments during their efforts to tackle the coronavirus disease 2019 as it continues to spread around the world.

On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that an interim government should be established in Venezuela, accepted by both Caracas and the opposition, to serve until the next presidential and legislative elections.

Researchers at Pennsylvania’s Carnegie Mellon University have created an app that can reportedly determine whether you have COVID-19 by analyzing your voice.

US stocks fell sharply Wednesday, with the New York Stock Exchange indices diving into negative territory just one day after both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 indices recorded their worst first-quarter performances ever.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s Industry and Trade Ministry decided to postpone International Industrial Trade Fair Innoprom, which was due in 2020 in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, until July 2021.

Naturally occurring ozone holes are more typical of the atmospheric layers above Antarctica, which is surrounded by vast open oceans, than the Arctic, but this winter season seems to have been an extremely rare exception.

CARACAS (Sputnik) – The Venezuelan Prosecutor General’s Office has summoned opposition figure Juan Guaido to question him in the case of an attempted coup and the attempted assassination of President Nicolas Maduro, Attorney General Tarek William Saab said.

As the COVID-19 outbreak onboard the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt gets worse, its captain has penned a pleading letter to the Navy for enough resources to isolate his entire crew.

I recognise we are in the midst of an unprecedented health crisis caused by the unforgiving COVID-19 virus; and the lack of routine testing of front-line health and social care staff coupled with the woefully inadequate supply of proper protective clothing and equipment for these essential workers is a disgrace of huge magnitude.

Named after William Halyburton, a hospital corpsman who died in 1945 during the battle of Okinawa, the vessel was first launched in 1981. During its more than three decades in service, the frigate has been used to hunt for submarines, drug dealers and pirates. Its last mission was the 2011 airstrikes on Libya.