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The court in the city of Yekaterinburg refused to punish the two men held by the police for the violation of self-isolation order. Two men were spotted by the patrol on Saturday evening walking on the VIZ Boulevard. The police decided the men were violating the self-isolation regime, concluded reports and submitted them to the court. According to the press service for the Supreme Court of Sverdlovsk Oblast at 16 hours 20 minutes on April 11, 2020 on VIZ Boulevard ward #10 of the Vekh-Ysetsk district two men were held by the police for the presence in the street in...

The British Prime Minister revealed his positive coronavirus test on March 27, but at the time described his symptoms as mild. United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized on Sunday, nine days after revealing that he had tested positive for coronavirus, according to reports in the U.K. media. On March 27, when he announced his positive test, Johnson said that he was experiencing only mild symptoms. But according to a report from The Guardian, his hospitalization followed “days of rumors that his condition has been worsening.” According to a source cited by a state-run Russian news agency, RIA-Novosti, Johnson’s...

Italy has extended its lockdown until 13 April but recorded its lowest death toll in more than a week, reinforcing indications that the coronavirus epidemic both there and in Spain may be reaching a plateau. “Experts say we are on the right track and the drastic measures we have taken are starting to yield results,” said the health minister, Roberto Speranza. He warned, though, that it would be “unforgivable to assume this was a definitive defeat” of Covid-19 and it would be “a long battle”.

A Russian military transport plane left an airfield outside Moscow and arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy airport in late afternoon on Wednesday. MOSCOW/WASHINGTON - Russia sent the United States medical equipment on Wednesday to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, a public relations coup for Russian President Vladimir Putin after he discussed the crisis with U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump, struggling to fill shortages of ventilators and personal protective equipment, accepted Putin's offer in a phone call on Monday. A Russian military transport plane left an airfield outside Moscow and arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy airport in...

Italians are feeling abandoned by the EU during their fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and are taking to social media to say ‘We save ourselves’ while burning the EU flag.

ROME, ITALY -- As Italy mourns thousands of coronavirus dead, and survivors brace for life in an economic wasteland, one rung of society looks to win big: organized crime. "The Italian mafia can turn threats into opportunities," top government anti-mafia investigator Giuseppe Governale told AFP. Over 10,000 people have died in Italy of the flu-like disease, which has forced the country into a lockdown that is devastating the eurozone's third largest economy. From the historic Cosa Nostra in Sicily, to the immensely powerful 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and trigger-happy Camorra in Naples, Italy's mafias were "caught on the back foot (by...

ROME—The New York mafia is taking a hit from the novel coronavirus pandemic after many of its money-making outlets have been shuttered. Gambling halls, sporting events, and construction projects have long fed the Empire State gangs, but now that they are taking an “historic” blow, a law-enforcement source told the New York Post. “There’s never been a time when they weren’t making money through gambling,” the source said. The American mafia families are also losing out on the extortion racket after restaurants and other entities close their doors under New York City’s “shelter in place” order. A halt to non-essential...

The first men of the Russian contingent arrived in Bergamo to work to support the coronavirus emergency began to work this morning. Supported by the men of the Italian army, the Russian military carried out sanitization work inside a residence for the elderly in Alzano Lombardo, one of the centers most affected by Covid-19.

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Units for anti-chemical and anti-biological warfare cross Italy on their way from Rome where they landed to Bergamo where the Coronavirus-outbreak has already killed thousands and thousands of those who caught the disease.

Russia sent mobile disinfection units capable of sanitising vehicles, buildings and public spaces as well as medical equipment, such as test kits to the worst-hit areas of Italy. Eight medical brigades, including virologists with first-hand experience of fighting swine fever and ebola also made the trip.

Italy, the world’s worst-affect country by the coronavirus pandemic, reported a massive jump in the number of deaths that rose by 793 to 4,825 on Saturday, marking it the largest one-day rise since the contagion spilled over into the European economy. The Civil Protection Agency said that confirmed cases rose to 53,578 from 47,021, There were 2,857 people in intensive care, up from 2,655. Lombardy, the northern Italian region around Milan, remains in a critical situation, with 3,095 deaths and 25,515 cases. In this dire situation, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Sunday, President Putin has ordered the Russian military to...

Ruthenians (Belarus) vs the Germans.

Ruthenians (Belarus) vs the Germans in WWII.

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Migrants on the Turkish side of the border at the Pazarkule border crossing try to move forward as the Greek army fires water cannons at them. IMAGES

Videocamera captured the moment of atrocity commuted by the Greek Couast Guard. Video cameras captured the moment, as the forces of the Hellenic coast guard in the Aegean sea dragged back the rubber boat with a group of migrants on B board. In recent days, thousands of migrants wishing to reach Europe, headed overland to the border crossing in Edirne and across the sea to the Greek coast. On the of the coast guard Forces of Greece withdraw a rubber boat with a group of illegal migrants from the territorial waters of Greece. Migrants on boat were rescued by the...

Secretary Pompeo on Syria’s Idlib province: The Assad regime’s brutal new aggression, cynically backed by Moscow and Tehran, imperils more than 3 million displaced persons. The answer is a permanent ceasefire and UN-led negotiations.

ATHENS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 29th February, 2020) Greece on Friday evening vetoed a NATO statement in support of Ankara after an attack on Turkish troops in Syria's Idlib, which killed more than 30 soldiers, To Vima newspaper reported. The situation in Idlib escalated after on February 27 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (banned in Russia) terrorists launched a large-scale attack on the positions of the Syrian government forces. The Syrian army opened return fire. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Turkish soldiers, who should not have been there, came under fire too.

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