World News Briefs -- October 28, 2020 (Evening Edition)

 


Germany will go into national lockdown from the start of next week in an effort to curb rocketing COVID-19 infections, while France will introduce similar measures next Friday. 

Anger has been mounting in cities throughout Europe over new restrictions. Protesters across Italy clashed with police this week as a curfew for bars and restaurants took effect. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the new lockdown measures during a televised address on Wednesday afternoon local time, saying the Federal Government had come to an agreement with states to lock down the entire country from November 2 – for at least two weeks. 

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 MIDDLE EAST 









 ASIA 

Drop in insurgent attacks, coalition airstrikes leads to fewest civilian casualties in Afghanistan since 2012. 









 AFRICA 









 EUROPE 










 AMERICAS 


Hunter Biden's former business partner releases audio of 'Biden family friend imploring him not to go public' - and claims Joe’s brother chuckled and said 'plausible deniability' allows the family to 'get away with it'. 



Five Chinese agents arrested in US for targeting Beijing opponents. 



 TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR 





Mali Radisson Blu attack: Two Islamists sentenced to death. 

 ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS 


Twitter's Jack Dorsey says 'conservatives have lost our trust' as he, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai are quizzed over Hunter emails - but says Holocaust denial is NOT banned on Twitter in angry clashes with Republican senators. 




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