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TOPLINE Facing around 500 new infections each day, England and France announced new nationwide mask mandates on Tuesday to curb minor resurgences of the virus, highlighting a marked difference in approach from the significantly hardest hit United States, whose leaders have reprimanded strongly the need for a national requirement despite …

WASHINGTON – White House officials this week denied trying to undermine Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, for his harsh analysis of the coronavirus pandemic. But Dan Scavino, the White House’s deputy director of communications staff, undermined that message by posting a cartoon taunting Dr. Fauci …

Written by Oscar Holland, CNN Last month, Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol, UK made headlines around the world when they knocked down a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston and dumped it into the Avon River. Now the city has a whole new figure that is held on …

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Young firebrand activists polled strongly in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy primaries in initial results released on Wednesday, but an election organizer resigned after Beijing warned that the vote could violate a new security law national. FILE PHOTO: Pro-democracy candidate Au Nok-hin (R) celebrates with disqualified legislator Nathan …

MOSCOW – Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky, Russia’s 70th nationalist brand of fire, has long functioned as a safety valve for public discontent, cornering protest votes but then supporting President Vladimir V. Putin at key junctures. Now, he says, the Kremlin treats his party “like idiots.” “Get out there and play,” he …