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After record illnesses were reported across the country, Austrians are days away from the country’s first lockdown for anyone who isn’t completely vaccinated.

If the federal government approves, the province of Upper Austria will implement limitations beginning Monday. New measures are also being considered in Salzburg. A countrywide lockdown for the unvaccinated, according to Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, is “definitely inevitable.”

He claimed that two-thirds of the population should not suffer because others were hesitant. Upper Austria, with a population of 1.5 million people and borders Germany and the Czech Republic, has the highest infection rate and the lowest vaccination rate in the country.

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In a dispute over judicial reforms, the EU’s top court has ordered Poland to pay a daily fine of €1 million (£850,000). Poland was forced to suspend a contentious disciplinary chamber earlier this year but has failed to do so.

It’s the latest twist in a tumultuous relationship with the EU over moves perceived as undermining the independence of Polish courts. Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller quickly decried the harsh penalty as “blackmail.” Some fear that the worsening tension would jeopardise Poland’s EU membership.

When there is a dispute between Polish and EU law, Poland’s constitutional court declared earlier this month that Polish law takes precedence over EU law, angering European leaders by effectively rejecting the primacy of EU law.

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After 14 months in command at the Nou Camp, Ronald Koeman has been fired as Barcelona’s head coach. Barca has only 15 points from ten games in La Liga and has already lost twice in the Champions League group stage this season.

After losing against Rayo Vallecano on Wednesday, they are ninth in the table, six points behind the joint leaders. Barca had lost three of their last four games, including a Clasico loss to Real Madrid on Sunday. Last season, the 58-year-old former Netherlands, Everton, and Southampton manager could only lead the five-time European winners to third place in the league.

The club’s enormous financial issues, which culminated in Lionel Messi’s leave and subsequent move to Paris St-Germain in August, haven’t helped the Dutchman.

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The minimum wage in the UK will be raised to 9.50 pound an hour from April next year. Those over the age of 23 are eligible for this minimum wage. The current minimum wage is 8.91 pound per hour. This is going to be nine and a half pounds from April. At the current exchange rate, this is equivalent to an average of 1,000 Indian rupees.

Under the new increase, a full-time employee will receive a salary increase of 1,074 pound a year. Chancellor Rishi Sunak will make an official announcement in the budget to be presented in Parliament this week. The government is preparing for such a decision based on the recommendations of the Pay Commission and the Independent Advisers.

The decision will give a 6.6 per cent increase in salaries to those over 23 years of age. This increase will be a great boon for workers as the cost of living has risen by an average of 3.1 per cent. The government is making a decision to provide relief to those who are suffering in the employment sector due to Covid.

The minimum wage for 21- to 22-year-olds will rise from 8.36 an hour to 9.18 pound from April. Apprenticeship pay will increase from 4.30 to 4.81 pound per hour.

The minimum wage for 18- to 20-year-olds will be raised from 6.56 to 6.83 pound. There is also an increase for those under 18 years of age. Their salary, which was 4.62, will rise to 4.81 pound. The Chancellor will present the budget in Parliament on Wednesday morning.

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An ambulance crew carries yet another Covid patient, an elderly man battling to breathe and barely alive, near the darkened entrance of Hospital Number One in the city of Vologda in Russia’s northwestern region.

The wards of the hospital are overflowing with the sick and dying. According to local doctors, 700 of the 750 patients at the hospital with Covid had not been vaccinated. Every day, lives are lost in this region, and this is just one of Russia’s numerous regions. Russia has been hit particularly hard by the Covid pandemic, which began in March 2020 and is currently facing a very dangerous fourth wave of the virus.

More than 1,000 individuals die per day in the United States, for a total of more than 220,000 deaths. These are unprecedented figures for Russia, making it Europe’s worst-affected country.

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The fossilised remains of Big John, the world’s largest triceratops dinosaur, were auctioned off in the French capital. The skeleton sold for €6.65 million ($7.74 million; £5.6 million), a European record. 

Big John roamed modern-day South Dakota in the United States 66 million years ago, and his bones were discovered in 2014. The plant-eating triceratops was a Cretaceous behemoth with its massive collared skull and three horns. Big John’s skeleton was purchased by a private, unknown American collector and put on public display at the Drouot auction house in Paris last week.

Big John’s skeleton was discovered by palaeontologists, who were able to recover 60% of the dinosaur’s skeleton. Its 200 pieces were painstakingly built by specialists in Trieste, Italy, including the dinosaur’s 2m-wide skull. These bones make up an 8-meter-long, 3-meter-high skeleton.

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On Tuesday Bulgaria launched its COVID-19 “Green Certificate” as a mandatory requirement to access at restaurants, theatres, cinemas, concert halls, gyms, clubs and shopping malls as the country faces a rise in coronavirus infections.

On Tuesday Health Minister Stoycho Katsarov explained that the new digital or paper health pass confirms that the person has been vaccinated, has recently recovered from COVID-19 or has tested negative.

He also said “The number of infected is growing, the number of deaths is also increasing, which forces us to take additional measures,” its also a warning that venues that do not follow the rules will be closed.

On the same day the Balkan country of 7 million reported 4,979 new COVID-19 cases and 214 coronavirus-related deaths, furthering the rise in new infections since the start of September.

As per the official data, Bulgaria has had the highest COVID-19 death rate in the 27-nation European Union in the past two weeks and 94% of those deaths were unvaccinated people.

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Peter Marki-Zay, a political outcast with no party association, will compete against Prime Minister Viktor Orban one year from now for leadership of Hungary after on Sunday winning an opposition run-off primary.

Marki-Zay win a victory over leftist Klara Dobrev, who swore to help him at the top of a collusion of six resistance groups that, in the 2022 parliamentary political election, will offer to expel Orban after over 10 years in power.

“We can just win together,” Marki-Zay told a horde of cheering allies, joined by his wife and seven children. “Nobody can break the solidarity of the resistance.”

“This was a fight, however we need to win the conflict too,” he said, alluding to the following year’s voting form. He swore to connect divisions in the public eye, cinch down on defilement, and battle in what he called an “uneven playing field ” with most media claimed by financial specialists near Orban’s Fidesz party.

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Protesters unleashed widespread violence against the decision to make the Covid Greenpass mandatory in the country. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets, including in Rome and Milan. Several policemen and protesters were injured.

Police used tear gas and water cannon as violence in the heart of Rome escalated. Juliano Castelino, leader of the neo-fascist Forza Nouveau group, led a protest rally in the Piazza del Popolo. Angry protesters stormed the headquarters of CGIL, the country’s largest trade union.

The protest was in protest of the government’s decision to make green pass certificates mandatory for Italian workers, including locals, from October 15. Officials have warned that those who fail to produce a green pass at work in the public-private sector from the 15th will face unpaid suspension.

Health Minister Roberto said the violence was unacceptable and would not back down from the decision. Foreign Minister Luigi de Mayo accused the protesters of being “not criminals” but protesters.

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In a major challenge to the EU’s legal structure, Poland’s top court has rejected the notion of EU law preceding national law in some judicial situations.

Some EU treaty clauses, according to the Constitutional Tribunal, are incompatible with Poland’s constitution. It stated that Polish judges should not utilise EU law to call into doubt the independence of their peers.

The EU’s executive body expressed “strong reservations” over the decision. “EU law has supremacy over national law, including constitutional provisions,” the European Commission stated in its statement.

Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish Prime Minister, filed the legal challenge. It was the first occasion in the EU’s 27-year existence that a leader of a member state had asked a constitutional court to review EU treaties in their entirety.

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