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Christmas in Italy under covid restrictions. The country further tightened its restrictions on Thursday (23 December), barring unvaccinated from public spaces and enforcing mask-wearing outdoors. Outdoor New Year’s Eve celebrations have been banned, and discos will be closed until January 31. The latest from infections A daily record of nearly 44,600 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours on Thursday, as well as 168 deaths. The country already requires unvaccinated EU citizens to quarantine for five days if entering the country, while vaccinated visitors from EU countries must get a negative test within 24 hours of arrival. The…

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A monument at a Hong Kong university that commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was removed by workers early Thursday over the objections of its creator from Denmark. The 8-metre tall Pillar of Shame, which depicts 50 torn and twisted bodies piled on top of each other, was made by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt to symbolise the lives lost during the bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. The Pillar of Shame monument The Pillar of Shame monument became an issue in October, with the university demanding that it be removed, even as…

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Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán has been denounced by Bosnian officials and religious leaders after he claimed integrating the country into the European Union would be a challenge because of its Muslim population. Orbán was giving a speech in Budapest on Tuesday, lines of which were tweeted out in English by his spokesperson. Hungary’s prime Minister thinks Bosnians are ‘challenging for the EU’ Orbán said during his speech, that Hungary supports Bosnia’s (a token statement) effort to join the EU, but added that “how we manage the security of a state in which 2 million Muslims live is a key…

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