BBC News with Juli Candaler. The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced stringent new restrictions in London and southeastern and eastern England to try to arrest a rapid rise in coronavirus infections. People are being urged to stay and work at home and nonessential shops and leasure facilities will be closed. Exemptions planned for Christmas will be curtailed.

President Trump has downplayed allegations that Russia was behind a major cyber espionage attack that penetrated several US government agencies as well as organizations around the world. On Friday, the US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo blamed Moscow for the attack, saying it had been very significant.

Police in Armenia have intervened when protesters tried to block a procession led by the Prime Minister to a military pantheon cemetery outside the Capital to mourn victims of the recent Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Protesters chanted that the Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was a traitor for giving up territory in Karabakh to Azerbaijan.

Reports from Sudan say big military re-enforcements have been deployed to the Ethiopian border. The region has seen clashes between the two countries over the past days.

There has been a outcry in Afghanistan after a man apparently killed his wife for giving birth to a girl. Police in the capital Kabul are searching for Fedy Dune who committed the murder after the birth of the couples' second daughter.

A court of Uttar Pradesh in northern India has released a Muslin man and his brother after police say they found no evidence that the two had forcibly converted the man's wife from Hinduism to Islam in marrying her. Both of the couple say their marriage and the conversion are consensual.

The Barcelona striker Lionel Messi has equalled Pele's record of 643 goals for a single club after scoring in today's match against Valencia. Messi has played for the Spanish club in 17 seasons. BBC News.