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Travellers arriving into the UK from Belgium, Andorra and the Bahamas must self-isolate for two weeks from today as toughened quarantine rules come into force.

The national lockdown may have indirectly caused 16,000 excess deaths in two months, according to government analysts.

Lebanon's president has revealed he knew about the huge stockpile of explosives at Beirut's port almost three weeks before they blew up.

This is not the election that the long-time leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, had planned.

At least 16 people are dead after an Air India Express flight carrying 191 passengers skidded off the runway at Calicut Airport in Kerala.

Preston is the latest part of the UK to face a tightening of lockdown measures after rising coronavirus infection rates were reported in the city.

The number of people with coronavirus in France has risen at the fastest rate since lockdown ended in the country.

The UK's R number - a crucial measure of how much coronavirus is spreading - has risen slightly in the past week.

There is agony and much anger amongst the families whose relatives are still missing after the Beirut blast.

Face shields worn by some workers to stop the spread of coronavirus are "unlikely" to offer any protection against breathing it in, the government's top scientists have said.