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The glamorous French Riviera resort of SaintTropez is requiring face masks outdoors starting Saturday, threatening to sober the mood in a place renowned for highend, freewheeling summer beach parties.

Senior officials from the Middle East and Europe started arriving in Lebanon Saturday in a show of solidarity with the tiny country that suffered a deadly blast this week which caused largescale damage to the capital Beirut.

Wild horses, bison and other bighoofed animals once roamed freely in much of Europe. Now they are transforming a former military base outside the Czech capital in an ambitious project to improve biodiversity.

Imagine what it's like to be flung to the floor by a gigantic explosion, dodge a falling wardrobe in your home, be cut in the forehead by flying glass and then brush off the blood and start filming the news.

China reported 31 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Aug 7, down from 37 a day earlier, the country's health authority said on Saturday.

Beijing's top representative office in Hong Kong said on Saturday it strongly condemns sanctions imposed by Washington that targeted the bureau's most senior official in the city, in addition to other senior current and former officials.

The entrenched ruling class has come under fire once again since Tuesday's explosion, which killed at least 154 people and devastated swathes of the capital.

The Australian state of Victoria recorded 466 new cases of COVID19 and 12 deaths, including another man in his 30s. The figures were released as the city of Melbourne remained in lockdown and under an overnight curfew.

A man caught with stolen hedge clippers decades ago must continue to serve his life sentence, despite a stinging dissent from the chief justice of Louisianas Supreme Court, who said the sentence was the result of laws rooted in racism.

A false report claiming five Ukrainians had died after taking an Americanmade coronavirus vaccine spread in just a matter of days from a small Kremlinfriendly website to an audience of thousands in U.S.based Facebook groups.

The number of daily new coronavirus infections in Italy jumped 38% higher Friday, with 552 confirmed cases registered compared to the previous day.

Claiming that the fugitive Islamic preacher would not be safe from the Indian public, former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, who is eyeing a comeback, said he would like to send Naik to some country where we feel he will be safe.

Two candidates who both served as replacement governors in the wake of a Puerto Rican political crisis are competing against each other for a chance to win the job in their own right as the disasterstruck U.S. territory holds primary elections.

The risk of COVID19 spreading widely in Vietnam is "very high", its prime minister said on Friday, after a new outbreak in the central city of Danang late last month ended a three month run of no new domestic cases.

A melting glacier as large as a cathedral is at risk of breaking apart due to a heatwave, forcing the evacuation of part of an Italian alpine valley.

Turkey's currency tumbled further Friday, hitting record lows two days in a row.