SERBIA

SERBIA

Minister of Construction， Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic and Zhang Xiaoyuan， Director of China Road and Bridge Corp. Serbia， sign an agreement to build the Fruska Gora Corridor， watched by President Aleksandar Vucic and Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Chen Bo in Belgrade on October 6. The $715-billion project entails a 47.7-km multi-lane road， a tunnel and a bridge across the Danube River

EUROPEAN UNION

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces legal action against the United Kingdom in Brussels， Belgium， on October 1， alleging that the latters Internal Market Bill breaches the Brexit deal reached in January

ITALY

People wear masks at the Piazza Venezia in Rome on October 6. The government announced that the national state of emergency， first declared on January 31， would be extended for at least one year

AFGHANISTAN

Security forces inspect a car bomb explosion site in Shinwar District， Nangarhar Province， on October 3. At least 15 people were killed and 42 others wounded in the blast， blamed on the Taliban， and ensuing gunfi ght

NEW ZEALAND

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern casts her advance vote at a polling station in Auckland on October 3. The general election will be held on October 17 as well as two referendums on assisted dying for the terminally ill and legalizing cannabis use

SWEDEN

The Nobel Committee for Chemistry announces the two winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on October 7. Emmanuelle Charpentier with the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Germany and Jennifer A. Doudna from the University of California， Berkeley， were chosen for their work on genome editing