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BELGIUM Delphine Boel has been acknowledged as Belgian Princess Delphine of Saxe-Coburg, after a two-decade royal paternity scandal. Former King Albert II, whose son Philippe is the reigning monarch, agreed this year to have a DNA test. News about a child with Boel’s mother, the aristocratic wife of an industrialist, was divulged in a biography of Albert’s wife, Queen Paola.

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SWITZERLAND The WHO has said its “best estimates” indicate that roughly one in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus—over 20 times the number of confirmed cases. Amounting to over 760 million people based on a current world population of about 7.6 billion, it far outstrips the number of confirmed cases—35 million worldwide.

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BRITAIN Interior minister Priti Patel has vowed the government would stop people entering the UK clandestinely and to fix a “broken” asylum system by bringing in new laws. Her hardline rhetoric was directed at voters concerned at a surge in the number of people crossing the English Channel from France in small boats or by stowing away in trucks or on ferries.

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