Top 10 world news today: Vienna orders closure of 'radical' mosques, Kremlin denies Putin's illness and more
Top 10 world news today
Austria's interior and integration ministers have ordered the closure of "radical mosques" after Monday's deadly attack by a jihadist inViennain which four people were killed. Read more
The Kremlin on Friday rejecteda report thatRussian President Vladimir Putin may quit from his post in January amid fears he has Parkinson's disease. Read more
Chinese telecomequipment maker Huawei has appealed against Sweden's decision to ban the companyfrom 5G networks, the Swedish telecoms regulator PTS said on Friday. Read more
The United Statesmission in Geneva urged World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday to invite Taiwan to a major meeting the body is hosting next week expected to focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
As India and China continue to face off along theLine of Actual Control(LAC), Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat has said that the Chinese Army is facing "unanticipated consequences" for its misadventure in eastern Ladakh. Read more
Four members of theMembers of the European Parliament (MEP) have criticised the South Asian country Pakistan for its involvement in the Pulwama terror attacks in India in 2019. Read more
Russian officials said Friday that President Vladimir Putin's criticAlexei Navalny fell illdue to metabolic problems and pancreatitis, not because he was poisoned. Read more
Jacinda Ardern was sworn in for her second term as the Prime Minister of New Zealand on Friday after final results showed the margin of her landslide victory is larger than previously estimated. Read more
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Friday that military operations launched in the northern region of Tigray had limited objectives, as calls rise for the country to step back from what could be a devastating war. Read more