EU eyes oil, potash in search for Belarus economic sanctions targets
Brussels/Lisbon (dpa) – After sealing off their skies to Belarusian air traffic, the European Union’s foreign ministers on Thursday started debating targets for economic sanctions, with the oil and potash sectors looking likely. «We really need to find the sectors, the companies, who actually benefit the regime, but not hurting the people,» Lithuanian Foreign Minister…
British health secretary: Everything ex-aide said about me untrue
London (dpa) – Britain’s health secretary has denied that he lied to «everybody in multiple occasions, in meeting after meeting in the cabinet room and publicly» in a statement to lawmakers on Thursday. Matt Hancock appeared in the House of Commons to defend his position after Dominic Cummings, a former aide to the prime minister,…
Malaysia reports almost 8,000 coronavirus cases as outbreak worsens
Bangkok (dpa) – Malaysia’s Health Ministry said 7,857 people had tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, another new one-day record and the third day in a row more than 7,000 cases had been confirmed. Around one-third of the cases were reported in the industrial heartland of Selangor, ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah said. Hisham earlier…
