Новости за 20.10.2020

BUDAPEST — As the second coronavirus wave bites, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban — who shut the borders in September — is holding back on tougher measures such as a lockdown, despite growing criticism of his response.

BEIJING — China's super wealthy have earned a record $1.5 trillion in 2020, more than the past five years combined, as e-commerce and gaming boomed during pandemic lockdowns, an annual rich list said on Tuesday.

PARIS — Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.

AMSTERDAM — Ajax host Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday, 18 months after being denied the chance to play the Anfield club in the final by a stunning Tottenham Hotspur comeback in the semi-final in Amsterdam.

AMMAN — Imports of this year’s winter clothing and footwear dropped by JD10 million, going down to JD60 million compared with JD70 million during the same period last year, according to a sector representative.

AMMAN — Due to the “remarkable increase in organised vagrancy”, the Social Development Ministry on Monday launched a campaign to reduce this “scourge”, according to minister Ayman Mufleh.

PARIS — French police on Monday launched a series of raids targeting extremist networks three days after the beheading of a history teacher who had shown his pupils a cartoon of Prophet Mohammad.