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Mumbai, May 2 (PTI) Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla has said he will return to India from London in a few days.

Poonawalla made the announcement soon after he spoke out about the pressures he was under over the production of COVID-19 vaccines to meet the ever-increasing demand in India as the country battles through a devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Police have detained 132 people who took part in an illegal party in a Brussels park to protest COVID-19 restrictions, authorities said Sunday.

About 15 people, including protesters and police, were injured in clashes, police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere said.

About 2,000 revelers and protesters had massed in the park Saturday for the second time in a month, and police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse them.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Piles of garbage, discarded debris and abandoned buildings are scattered across a post-industrial area on the left bank of the Danube River, just south of the grandiose downtown of Hungary’s capital, Budapest.

The area has been unused for decades, languishing in post-socialist decay in the 30 years since anti-communist firebrands pressed for the end of Soviet domination in Hungary at the end of the 1980s.

MADRID (AP) — Two young Senegalese men met on a Europe-bound migrant boat in 2006, a year that saw a record influx of Africans to Spain’s Canary Islands.

Since then, one died of a heart attack running away from Spanish police and the other is running in a polarized election Tuesday for a seat in Madrid’s regional assembly.

Serigne Mbaye not only wants to fight what he considers to be “structural racism” against African migrants but also to defy a history of underrepresentation of the Black community and other people of color in Spanish politics.

BRUSSELS/LONDON, May 1. /TASS/: The European Union and the United Kingdom have completed formal Brexit procedures, as an agreement on bilateral relations came into force at 00:00 Brussels time (01:00 Moscow time) on May 1.

"The conclusion of the trade and cooperation agreement will give legal certainty to the new EU-UK relationship, in the interests of citizens and business on both sides of the channel. We value the UK as a good neighbour, an old ally and an important partner," the Council of the EU said in a statement.

MOSCOW, May 1. /TASS/: Russia will oblige all migrants, willing to stay in Russia for a long period of time, to receive an electronic document valid for ten years, the ministry’s press service said in a response to a TASS request.

"Receiving a single document equipped with a digital data storage device will become an obligatory requirement for a foreigner who had applied for a long-term stay in Russia. This unified document will be issued to a foreign citizen for a period of ten years, and will be replaced after expiry," a spokesperson for the ministry said.

MOSCOW, May 1. /TASS/: Russia confirmed 9,270 COVID-19 cases over the past day, bringing the total case tally to 4,814,558, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Saturday.

In relative terms, the growth rate reached 0.19%.

Over the past day, 737 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in St. Petersburg, a new high since March 27, 649 in the Moscow Region, 228 in the Rostov Region, 166 in the Nizhny Novgorod Region and 160 in the Samara Region.

Moscow’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 3,208 over the past day to 1,096,019.

30 Apr 2021; MEMO: The EU on Friday urged Israel to enable elections across the entire Palestinian territory and expressed regret over delayed vote, Anadolu Agency reports.

30 Apr 2021; MEMO: Italian prosecutors yesterday asked a judge to have four senior members of Egypt's security services sent for trial over their suspected role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016, Reuters reported.

(Reuters) --- Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Saturday eased tough restrictions imposed last month to prevent the rapid spread of the new coronavirus.

In early April, Kyiv limited its public transport services, closed schools and kindergartens, theatres and shopping centres, and banned spectators from sporting events.

Starting from Saturday, the capital will allow the operation of transport, cafes and restaurants, although passenger and customer numbers will be restricted. Wearing masks is still mandatory in transport and public places.