A single birthday party has been linked to a sudden spike in coronavirus cases in a Spanish town, with every single person who attended the party having become infected with the virus.

A birthday party held in Lleida, Catalonia, resulted in all 20 people who attended becoming infected, the Telegraph newspaper reported, prompting Spanish health authorities to postpone the region's schedule for easing the lockdown.

The Lleida area subsequently saw the number of new cases rise from 45 between May 7 and May 13, to 142 between May 14 and 21.

A maximum of 10 people are allowed to attend a social gathering in Spain, which has recorded one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in the world.

The Russian government has consistently denied directly intervening in the Libyan conflict. But Moscow supports Haftar and his self-styled 'Libyan National Army' (LNA) against the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), which controls the capital Tripoli. Russia, Egypt, and the UAE have heavily backed Haftar's LNA with weapons, air support and an estimated 1,500 mercenary advisors from the Wagner Group, a private military company with close ties to Russia's leadership. 

On the other side, the increasingly violent conflict has drawn NATO member Turkey into support of the GNA — effectively making the conflict a low-level proxy war between Russia and Turkey.?

Durham Police concluded that Cummings, who has denied any wrongdoing, committed a "minor breach" of the rules when he drove to Barnard Castle on April 12, the Telegraph reported.

However, the force will be taking no further action against him, the paper suggests.

According to the OCCRP reporting, the Kava? and Škaljari clans had been long time partners in smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe until 2014 when a shipment of 200kg of the group's cocaine was stolen in a dispute over control of a safehouse used by the clans. By 2015, the dispute had spiralled into a gang war across much of Europe. Serbian police and OCCRP reporters believe the conflict taken as many as 41 lives as both clans fight for supremacy and drag other Balkan criminal organizations into the struggle.  ?

"The scale of the conflict between the 'Škaljari' and the 'Kava?' clans is seen in the findings that, in the criminal milieu in Montenegro and Serbia, a significant division occurred," Serbia's intelligence agency wrote in a February 2018 report obtained by OCCRP's local Serbian media partner on the investigation.?