News archive of September 2020

Epidemiologist Tiodorovic warns: November is coming, let's not end up like Germany

According to him, we currently have a good epidemiological situation and we expect it to be the same in October.
It depends on our caution whether we'll face with the growing number of cases, and that is why we have decided not to allow large gatherings and to only gradually ease the measures, Dr Tiodorovi said for "Blic".

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One cannot expect Greece's leftist opposition to act with self-restraint. It was to be expected that SYRIZA would incite school sit-ins by pupils, adding to the trouble of an already difficult academic year. 

That said, one would expect that the conservative government would do better than behaving like a passive bystander.

Greek FM in Cyprus ahead of Brussels summit

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is visiting Nicosia on Wednesday for talks with his Cypriot counterpart ahead of a crucial special European Council meeting later this week.

COVID-19 Exacerbates Ethnic Serb Limbo in Kosovo

While north Kosovo has long resisted integration into the majority-Albanian state, authorities in Pristina too have been accused of making only piecemeal efforts at outreach. COVID-19 has underscored just how far apart the two sides remain.

"There isn't any kind of cooperation," said Doctor Zlatan Elek, acting director of the Clinical Hospital Centre in north Mitrovica. 

Slovak Roma Strive for Better Lives Despite Extreme Poverty, Report Finds

The project has documented the huge differences in health status between people from these poorer areas and the general population, and in 2019 it carried out extensive research into how big the causes were. The results paint a picture very different from the one widely presented by extremists, disinformation websites and some political elites.

Azerbaijan: Armenian jets crashed into mountains

Azerbaijan on Sept. 30 dismissed claims that Turkey had recently downed an Armenian jet, saying that the aircraft had instead crashed into a mountain.

Accusing Yerevan of disinformation, presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev said both of two Sukhoi Su-25 jets that Armenia said had been destroyed and collided into a mountain.

Azerbaijan, Armenia reject talks as Karabakh conflict zone spreads

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused one another on Sept. 29 of firing directly into each other's territory and rejected pressure to hold peace talks as their conflict over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh threatened to mushroom into all-out war.

Turkey detains 13 ISIL terror suspects

A total of 13 people with suspected links to the ISIL terror group were detained in Turkey, security sources said on Sept. 30. 

The suspects, who entered Turkey through illegal means and were active in Syria and Iraq, were apprehended in simultaneous operations by anti-terror teams in Istanbul, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

Boost in vaccine doses planned for poor as virus rages on

Up to 100 million additional doses of any eventual COVID-19 vaccines will be secured for delivery to poorer countries in 2021, health groups announced on Sept. 29, as the virus showed no sign of receding after claiming more than one million lives around the world.    

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