Month: June 2021

Metro says that Matt Hancock has been reported to the police over his breach of social distancing guidance.

The death toll from the Florida building collapse rose to nine, as rescue workers search for more than 150 other people.

The Ministry of Defence said that an employee told it last week that the documents had been lost, and that an investigation had been launched.  The documents, which include emails and PowerPoint presentations, originated in the office of a senior official at the MoD.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has reimposed restrictions for two weeks to combat a surge in the highly contagious Delta variant.

Nine people, including 4 police officers, have died in separate attacks across Colombia, which has seen a recent surge in violence.

US strikes on eastern Syria near the border with Iraq killed at least five Iran-backed militia fighters, a war monitor reported.

Italy became a mask-free, “low-risk” zone for coronavirus, marking a milestone for the first European country to be hit by Covid.

BBC News says health secretary Sajid Javid will update MPs later on when the remaining Covid measures will lift in England.

Egypt brokers a deal with Hamas Israel – to allow emergency supplies through the crossing starting with fuel to power…

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will meet his US and Bahraini counterparts in Rome on Sunday, Lapid’s office said, the first face-to-face diplomatic contacts for a senior member of the new Israeli government that was sworn in two weeks ago.