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Snowfall blankets locked-down Milan

Snowfall blankets locked-down Milan

-- 2020-12-29 11:45:04

Milan woke up to a thick blanket of snow on Monday, thrilling children but disrupting anyone trying to get back to work after the strict Christmas lockdown. Masked city workers were out at dawn shove...

Britain to restrict ‘buy one get one free’ unhealthy food promotion

Britain to restrict ‘buy one get one free’ unhealthy food promotion

REUTERS 2020-12-28 13:49:29

Britain will ban “buy one get one free” promotions for food high in fat, sugar or salt and free refills of sugary soft drinks in restaurants from April 2022, the government said on Monday,...

European countries start Covid-19 vaccinations

European countries start Covid-19 vaccinations

-- 2020-12-28 13:22:32

Several European countries have launched coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccination as the first batch of vaccines was distributed among European Union (EU) member states, in the hope of defeating the virus....

German pilot draws syringe in the sky

German pilot draws syringe in the sky

Reuters 2020-12-27 22:40:32

German pilot Samy Kramer has traced a giant syringe in the sky, flying 200 kilometres to remind people about the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Europe. The 20-year-old pilot mapped out...

Putin decides to receive coronavirus vaccine: Kremlin

Putin decides to receive coronavirus vaccine: Kremlin

Reuters 2020-12-27 19:07:28

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin will receive the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian state TV channel on Sunday. “He said he will b...

US whistleblower Edward Snowden becomes a father

US whistleblower Edward Snowden becomes a father

AP 2020-12-27 16:28:25

Edward Snowden has become a father, his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told Interfax. Former CIA and NSA agent Edward Snowden and his wife Lindsay Mills announced the birth of their first child on social m...

Magnitude 5.3 quake hits eastern Turkey

Magnitude 5.3 quake hits eastern Turkey

-- 2020-12-27 14:29:46

An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said, while the interior minister said there were no immediate re...

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,”...