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Paris police suspended over beating of black man
Video of the three officers beating the music producer at his studio has caused an outcry in France.
Iran diplomat faces trial over 'France bomb plot'
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'This is War': Poland’s battle for abortion
People have taken to the streets as the government attempts to ban nearly all abortions.
Face-to-face Brexit talks to resume in London
In-person meetings were suspended when EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier had to self-isolate.
Turkey jails hundreds for life over 2016 coup plot
Air force pilots, other officers and civilians are jailed for trying to oust President Erdogan.
Germany seeks EU deal to close ski resorts
Germany and Italy want slopes closed until January, but the EU is yet to reach an agreement.
Estonia and Latvia taken off UK travel corridor list
People travelling to the UK from the two countries will need to quarantine from Saturday.
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Paris police suspended over beating of black man
Video of the three officers beating the music producer at his studio has caused an outcry in France.
Iran diplomat faces trial over 'France bomb plot'
Prosecutors in Belgium say he planned an attack on an Iranian opposition rally near Paris in 2018.
Video 6 minutes 9 seconds
'This is War': Poland’s battle for abortion
People have taken to the streets as the government attempts to ban nearly all abortions.
Face-to-face Brexit talks to resume in London
In-person meetings were suspended when EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier had to self-isolate.
Turkey jails hundreds for life over 2016 coup plot
Air force pilots, other officers and civilians are jailed for trying to oust President Erdogan.
Germany seeks EU deal to close ski resorts
Germany and Italy want slopes closed until January, but the EU is yet to reach an agreement.
Estonia and Latvia taken off UK travel corridor list
People travelling to the UK from the two countries will need to quarantine from Saturday.
Iran diplomat faces trial over 'France bomb plot'
Prosecutors in Belgium say he planned an attack on an Iranian opposition rally near Paris in 2018.
Video 6 minutes 9 seconds
'This is War': Poland’s battle for abortion
People have taken to the streets as the government attempts to ban nearly all abortions.
Face-to-face Brexit talks to resume in London
In-person meetings were suspended when EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier had to self-isolate.
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Berlin to name street after Tanzanian independence activist
Copyright: Getty ImagesImage caption: Wissmannstraße is set to be renamed next year Councillors in the German capital, Berlin, have voted to replace a street name honouring a colonial governor in East Africa accused of having ordered massacres with one of a leading female Tanzanian independence activist.
Wissmannstraße, named after Hermann von Wissmann, is set to become Lucy-Lameck-Straße.
She was Tanzania's first female cabinet minister as well as a leading figure in the country's independence movement.
Von Wissman was governor of German East Africa (now Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda) in the late 19th Century and is believed to have behind the mass killings of local people, German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reports.
Berlin Postkolonial, one of the groups behind the call for the name change, welcomed the local authority's decision.
In a statement it said that the campaign had prevented "the further honouring" of Von Wissmann and in its place put "a Tanzanian woman who actively opposed colonialism and racism".
"Wissmann was a racist war criminal. Lucy Lameck stands for the undervalued contribution of Tanzania's women to the fight for our independence," Tanzanian activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro said.
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Tents in Croatia and record highs in Russia: Latest in Europe
Croatia has been hard hit by the Covid outbreak in recent weeks and hospitals are struggling to cope. The northern city of Varazdin has begun erecting military tents to cope with the influx of patients. Ten people died in the space of 24 hours and hospital head Nenad Kudelic has spoken of a collapse of the health care system and "wartime conditions".
Germany’s leaders have agreed Christmas restrictions, with a “lockdown light” covering restaurants and bars continuing until 20 December and beyond, but with a slight relaxation over the festive period. Afterwards, states that have low rates of infection can start loosening restrictions.
Turkey has seen a big jump of 28,351 daily infections after it changed its system of reporting to include all positive cases. Doctors’ leaders and the opposition have accused officials of hiding the true numbers. Previously the average number was around 6,000 infections a day.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has extended Covid restrictions in the Russian capital that require over-65s and at risk groups to stay at home and at least 30% of workers to work from home. The requirements will go on until at least 15 January. Nationally, Russia has reported a record 524 deaths over 24 hours and another record 25,487 infections.
Copyright: ReutersImage caption: Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte holds a summit in Rome on Thursday to decide Covid rules for Christmas and the new year The World Health Organization says Italy has seen the biggest number of cases in Europe in the past week with 235,979 new infections. Last night Italy reported 722 deaths in 24 hours, a fall on the previous day, and a drop in the number of people treated in hospital.
