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Top 10 world news today: Food crisis in Lebanon, COVID-19 cases in world, and more

WION Web Team
New Delhi, Delhi, IndiaUpdated: Aug 30, 2020, 08:01 PM IST
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Here are the top 10 news that dominated the world arena

However, Europe 1 said the officer was a lieutenant-colonel stationed with NATO in Italy and had been placed under investigation on suspicion of spying for Russia.

"Immediate measures should be taken to prevent a food crisis," ESCWA executive secretary Rola Dashti said. 

The letter also demanded an end to police violence and the release of all political prisoners.

The French presidency said Macron called Danielle Obono from the far-left party France Unbowed and "expressed his clear condemnation of any form of racism".

At least 25,029,250 people have been infected with the respiratory disease, of whom 842,915 have died.

These asylum-seekers were rescued by the Greek coast guard as it approached the shore on Saturday. 

The army said on Saturday that seven people were still missing - three Lebanese, three Syrians and one Egyptian. It was not immediately clear if some had since been found.

The Reichstag is the "symbolic centre of our democracy", Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told Sunday's edition of the Bild newspaper.

The sinking of two boats in June and December, claiming 68 lives in all, underscores the perils of a route used to circumnavigate checkpoints set up across the rugged eastern terrain of Turkey,…

Thousands of tearful Shiite pilgrims wearing gloves and masks flooded Iraq's holy city of Karbala on Sunday to mark Ashura, in one of the largest Muslim gatherings since the Covid-19 pandemic began.