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•Spain will reopen to international tourists from July , announced the prime minister Pedro Sánchez. He also said the country's top two football divisions will be allowed to resume behind closed doors from 8 June.
•Churches in France have reopened for Sunday mass for the first in two months. Worshipers must follow social distancing measures.
•French health minister Olivier Véran has ordered a review of the use of hydroxychloroquine after a study published by
The Lancet
proved it increases the chance of dying from the infection in COVID-19 patients.
• As regions in Italy continue easing lockdown and start reopening swimming pools, sports centers, museums and cinemas, official data show that a third of new COVID-19 cases in the country are still in the Lombardy region .
• UK's chief adviser Dominic Cummings , who received calls to resign after breaking lockdown to see his parents, is still under fire after witnesses reported seeing him taking a second trip .
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Two Premier League players have been found positive in the latest round of COVID-19 tests.
• The director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology says that the lab was working with three strains of bat coronaviruses but none of them match with the COVID-19 strain .
•New York state's daily death toll recorded below 100 for the first time since late March.
**•Muslims across the world are celebrating the end of Ramadan **while respecting social distancing measures. Prayers are going virtual in Saudi Arabia, where mosques are broadcasting the call to Eid prayers.
•Argentina extends lockdown restrictions for another two weeks in the capital Buenos Aires as the number of infections increase in the country.
•New Zealand confirmed zero new cases in the last 24 hours .
•Russia reported its highest daily death toll , 153 deaths in the last 24 hours.
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ACROSS EUROPE
By Toni Waterman in Brussels
**EU: **Loans vs grants: the debate over the EU's recovery fund has intensified after the so-called 'frugal four' presented a proposal which rivals the $545bn plan presented by France and Germany last week.
Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden say a temporary, one-off recovery fund is needed to mitigate the economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus, but they rejected the idea of debt mutualization. They're also not keen on a big increase in the EU budget.Unlike the Franco-German plan which calls for grants, the northern states say the money should be distributed in the form of cheap loans.
The European Commission is expected to put forward its recovery fund proposal next week.
**Belgium: **More than 30 Belgians are suing their government and the country's interior minister Pieter De Crem over how they responded to the coronavirus outbreak. According to the newspaper
Nieuwsblad
, the group believes that confinement measures violate the Human Rights Convention and they're demanding the measures be lifted immediately.
The group is suing for one euro and their lawyer believes the case will be closed in a few weeks.Belgium entered lockdown in mid-March with measures only beginning to lift in May.
An aerial photograph shows Albanian Muslims attending the Eid Al-Fitr prayer on the first day of the Muslim festival marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. /Gent Shkullaku /AFP
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