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 





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 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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