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.
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.
Opponents of Moldovan President Warn of Fraud Risk in November Vote
In mid-September, independent TV 8 published an investigation featuring dozens of would-be voters who said they had been listed as requesting the right to vote in Russia, without their knowledge.
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.
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.