Spain’s government used its emergency powers Friday to lock down Madrid to try to stop a second wave of Covid-19.

Spain’s government on Friday decreed a state of emergency for the Madrid region, overruling Madrid’s own regional politicians, who had applied a limited lockdown on specific neighborhoods to try to stop a second wave of Covid-19.

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The agency was awarded the prize for providing food assistance to millions around the world, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Northeastern United States, devastated by the coronavirus in the spring and then held up as a model of infection control by the summer, is now seeing the first inklings of what might become a second wave of the virus.

The oil giant’s takeover of Noble Energy gives it a foothold in an emerging energy hot spot: the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Villagers confronted officials, and seven police officers are now in jail, in a rare official action to investigate child sexual abuse accusations in Afghanistan.

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A fire engulfed a 33-story residential high-rise in Ulsan, South Korea, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people.