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PM Johnson sold out fish in Brexit trade deal, British fishermen say

PM Johnson sold out fish in Brexit trade deal, British fishermen say

REUTERS 2020-12-27 12:14:50

British fishermen said on Saturday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had sold out fish stocks to the European Union with a Brexit trade deal that gives EU boats significant access to the United Kingdo...

Europe prepares to begin COVID-19 vaccinations

Europe prepares to begin COVID-19 vaccinations

Reuters 2020-12-26 20:52:55

Hungary stole a march on its fellow EU nations as it started vaccinating its people against COVID-19 on Saturday, a day ahead of rollouts in countries including France and Germany as the pandemic surg...

France finds first case of new Covid-19 variant

France finds first case of new Covid-19 variant

BBC 2020-12-26 18:18:19

France has confirmed the first case in the country of the more contagious coronavirus variant recently identified in the UK. The French health ministry said the person was a French citizen in the cen...

Russia approves Sputnik V vaccine for people over 60

Russia approves Sputnik V vaccine for people over 60

-- 2020-12-26 16:21:44

Russia on Saturday approved its main COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, for use by people over the age of 60, Russian news agencies cited the health ministry as saying. People over 60 have thus far been ex...

Turkey's Erdogan wants better ties with Israel, but says Palestinian policy still "red line"

Turkey's Erdogan wants better ties with Israel, but says Palestinian policy still "red line"

REUTERS 2020-12-26 09:20:51

Turkey would like better ties with Israel but Israeli policy towards the Palestinians remains “unacceptable”, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. Turkey and Israel, once allies, have...

Erdogan says Turkey wants better ties with Israel

Erdogan says Turkey wants better ties with Israel

-- 2020-12-25 19:00:35

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would like to have better ties with Israel and that talks at the intelligence level continued between the two sides, but criticised Israeli...

People should feel obliged to help poor, Pope says

People should feel obliged to help poor, Pope says

-- 2020-12-25 17:10:29

Pope Francis celebrated a low-key Christmas Eve Mass made sombre by the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and said people should feel obliged to help the needy because Jesus himself was born a poor out...

Asians among thousands of migrants left without shelter in Bosnia

Asians among thousands of migrants left without shelter in Bosnia

-- 2020-12-25 10:33:53

More than a thousand migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were left to sleep in the cold after their camp in northwestern Bosnia burned down amid a dispute among Bosnian politicians ov...

UK and EU reach post-Brexit trade agreement

UK and EU reach post-Brexit trade agreement

AP 2020-12-24 21:40:34

Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year's chaos for cross-border commerce and bring a measure of certainty to businesses after years of...

As mutated variant keeps spreading, UK govt mulls stricter lockdown

As mutated variant keeps spreading, UK govt mulls stricter lockdown

Reuters 2020-12-23 15:32:19

The British government will review whether it needs to impose its strictest Covid-19 restrictions on more of the country on Wednesday as a highly infectious variant continues to spread but will not ch...

UK-France services resume as French govt eases travel ban

UK-France services resume as French govt eases travel ban

-- 2020-12-23 14:13:56

Rail, air and sea services between the UK and France are resuming this morning after the French government agreed to ease its travel ban over Covid fears. French citizens, British nationals living in...

Three French police officers shot dead responding to a domestic violence call

Three French police officers shot dead responding to a domestic violence call

Reuters 2020-12-23 12:56:42

Three police officers have been shot dead in an incident in central France, and a fourth officer wounded, the country’s national police force confirmed on Wednesday. The news was earlier report...

Europe's coronavirus death toll surpasses 500,000

Europe's coronavirus death toll surpasses 500,000

-- 2020-12-23 12:24:18

Europe became the first region worldwide to cross 500,000 coronavirus (Covid-19) deaths on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, as a new variant of the coronavirus discovered in Britain threatened t...

Isolated Britain strives to lift France's freight ban

Isolated Britain strives to lift France's freight ban

REUTERS 2020-12-22 15:19:09

The United Kingdom was stuck in Covid-19 isolation on Tuesday after much of the world cut off travel ties due to a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, snarling one of Europe’s most importa...

Putin's foe Navalny pranked secret agent!

Putin's foe Navalny pranked secret agent!

-- 2020-12-22 09:13:32

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday he had tricked a Russian secret agent into disclosing details of the botched plot to kill him and had been told that poison had been placed in his underpan...

World closes borders to Britain over fears of new coronavirus strain

World closes borders to Britain over fears of new coronavirus strain

-- 2020-12-21 22:02:03

A slew of countries closed their borders to Britain on Monday over fears of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, heightening global panic, causing travel chaos and raising the prospect of UK fo...

'Sick man of Europe': UK cut off over new Covid strain

'Sick man of Europe': UK cut off over new Covid strain

REUTERS 2020-12-21 15:31:32

The United Kingdom was on Monday shut off from much of Europe after its closest allies cut transport ties due to fears about a new strain of the coronavirus, sowing chaos for families and companies ju...

Countries ban flights from UK over new Covid variant

Countries ban flights from UK over new Covid variant

-- 2020-12-20 20:03:48

A number of European countries have or are considering banning travel from the UK to prevent the spread of a more infectious variant of coronavirus. Both the Netherlands and Belgium have suspended fl...

WHO in ‘close contact’ with UK over emergence of new Covid variant

WHO in ‘close contact’ with UK over emergence of new Covid variant

-- 2020-12-20 14:58:48

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is in "close contact" with UK officials over the emergence of a new variant of coronavirus. The new variant is spreading more rapidly than the original...

Russia's coronavirus deaths surpass 50,000

Russia's coronavirus deaths surpass 50,000

-- 2020-12-19 17:30:58

Russian authorities said on Saturday that 585 people had died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the country's official death toll to 50,347, reports Reuters. Authorities also reported 28,209...

Eight die in Turkey hospital fire

Eight die in Turkey hospital fire

-- 2020-12-19 14:00:39

A fire in a private hospital’s Covid-19 intensive care unit killed eight people, the governor’s office in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep said on Saturday, reports Reuters....

Italy orders Christmas and New Year lockdown

Italy orders Christmas and New Year lockdown

-- 2020-12-19 11:55:25

Italy has ordered a nationwide lockdown over much of the Christmas and New Year period in an effort to combat a rise in coronavirus cases. The country will be under "red-zone" restrictions over the p...

France's Macron contracts coronavirus

France's Macron contracts coronavirus

-- 2020-12-17 16:04:22

French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Covid-19, the French Presidency said on Thursday. “The President of the Republic has been diagnosed positive for COVID-19 today,”...

UK vaccinates nearly 140,000 people so far

UK vaccinates nearly 140,000 people so far

-- 2020-12-16 18:27:40

Nearly 140,000 people in the United Kingdom have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in the first week of the roll-out of the shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the minister in charge of deployment o...

Northern Ireland hospital treating patients in parked ambulances

Northern Ireland hospital treating patients in parked ambulances

-- 2020-12-16 18:15:31

Patients were being treated in the back of ambulances in a Northern Ireland hospital car park on Tuesday, a health official said, a day after a warning that COVID-19 was putting healthcare under "unbe...

Italy eyes new COVID-19 curbs as Christmas crowds raise alarm

Italy eyes new COVID-19 curbs as Christmas crowds raise alarm

Reuters 2020-12-15 18:07:52

Italy is considering more stringent nationwide coronavirus restrictions during the Christmas holidays, the health minister said on Monday, after scenes of big gatherings in many cities over the weeken...

British PM to visit India next month

British PM to visit India next month

-- 2020-12-15 16:29:26

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to India in January, his first bilateral visit since taking office, to try to strengthen trade and investment ties and work together on tackling climat...

Putin congratulates Biden on US election victory

Putin congratulates Biden on US election victory

REUTERS 2020-12-15 16:00:00

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in the US presidential election, after Biden won the state-by-state Electoral College vote that officially determines...

11 elderly people die in Russia retirement home fire

11 elderly people die in Russia retirement home fire

-- 2020-12-15 11:57:39

Eleven elderly people with mobility issues died after being trapped in a burning retirement home in the early hours of Tuesday in the Russian region of Bashkortostan in the Urals mountains, authoritie...

New variant of coronavirus being investigated in England, says WHO

New variant of coronavirus being investigated in England, says WHO

Reuters 2020-12-15 10:03:10

The World Health Organization (WHO) is aware of a new variant of Covid-19 that has emerged in Britain, but there is no evidence the strain behaves differently to existing types of the virus, it said o...