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Under a deal struck with the Spanish branch of French insurer AXA, any tourist who tests positive for COVID-19 while visiting the Canary Islands will be eligible for free medical care, repatriation and additional accommodation for quarantine measures
World
17.08.2024
Canary Islands to insure tourists who catch virus
These satellite images by Airbus DS shows a view of the port of Beirut on January 25 and on August 5, a day after the blast sowed devastation across the city
World
17.08.2024
Awaiting disaster, ammonium nitrate was stored at Beirut port for years
People, wearing a face mask, walk in the Kalverstraat, in Amsterdam on August 5, 2020, from when wearing a face mask is mandatory in five usually crowded places in the city of Amsterdam
World
17.08.2024
Amsterdam enforces face masks in crowded places
Some 45 percent of airlines reported having already reduced their staff numbers in the second quarter of 2020 due to cost-cutting measures following the COVID-19 pandemic
World
17.08.2024
Most airlines expect job cuts over next 12 months: survey
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Sudanese children stand across a flooded street after torrential rain led to landslides and flash floods in the town of Umm Dawan Ban, southeast of the capital Khartoum
World 17.08.2024
Floods affect more than 50,000 in Sudan: UN
Italian Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini (pictured March 2020) met in Tripoli with Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of Libya's Government of National Accord
World 17.08.2024
Italy defence ministry seeks closer ties with Libya
US President Donald Trump, seen here with his wife Melania on the White House's South Lawn, may accept the Republican Party's nomination from the presidential residence
World 17.08.2024
Biden, Trump scramble to replan nomination speeches
Protests blocking the Martyrs' Bridge in Bamako on July 11
World 17.08.2024
Security forces responsible for Mali protest killings, says Amnesty
Individuals were alerted by WhatsApp last year that their mobile phones had been targeted with spying technology
World 17.08.2024
Anger in Togo after government accused of using spyware on critics
Leading Zimbabwean businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei, seen on a July 2018 visit to South Africa, has been hit by sanctions by the United States
World 17.08.2024
US slaps sanctions on leading Zimbabwe businessman
Indigenous chief Aritana, pictured in 2003 with Queen Sofia of Spain, was known for fighting to protect the Amazon rainforest
World 17.08.2024
Virus kills leading Brazil indigenous chief Aritana
More than 4,000 wounded people staggered or were taken into damaged and overwhelmed hospitals across the Lebanese capital on Tuesday evening
World 17.08.2024
'Armageddon' at Beirut hospitals after blast hurt medics, patients alike
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, seen here testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 30, 2020, is facing a probe by the State Department's internal watchdog
World 17.08.2024
Another watchdog at US State Department abruptly gone
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