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Britain imposes six-month curbs against second wave

Britain imposes six-month curbs against second wave

-- 2020-09-22 21:26:37

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged his countrymen to work from home where possible and ordered bars and restaurants to close early to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of COVID-19 with n...

Russia to share legal risks of COVID-19 vaccine

Russia to share legal risks of COVID-19 vaccine

Reuters 2020-09-22 20:09:15

Russia is so confident in its COVID-19 vaccine that it will shoulder some of the legal liability should anything go wrong, rather than requiring buyers to take on the full risk, the head of the state...

US, China absent from global vaccine plan joined by 156 nations

US, China absent from global vaccine plan joined by 156 nations

Reuters 2020-09-22 11:09:20

Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against Covid-19, an alliance led by the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, but superpowers China and...

‘Surrounded by NATO’, neutral Switzerland to vote on buying fighter jets

‘Surrounded by NATO’, neutral Switzerland to vote on buying fighter jets

REUTERS 2020-09-21 14:53:27

Switzerland, which last fought a foreign war more than 200 years ago and has no discernable enemies, wants to spend billions on new fighter jets. Many oppose the idea, saying the neutral country neit...

Czech health minister quits amid surge in coronavirus cases

Czech health minister quits amid surge in coronavirus cases

-- 2020-09-21 13:34:06

Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtech said on Monday he had submitted his resignation following criticism over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as the central European country sees a surge in ca...

Protesters hold rally against lockdown measures in London

Protesters hold rally against lockdown measures in London

-- 2020-09-20 17:17:15

More than a thousand people gathered in central London on Saturday to protest against lockdown measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, before the event was broken up by police. The p...

£10,000 fine for breaking COVID-19 rules in England

£10,000 fine for breaking COVID-19 rules in England

-- 2020-09-20 16:21:25

People in England who break new rules requiring them to self-isolate if they have been in contact with someone infected with COVID-19 will face a fine of up to 10,000 pounds ($12,914). The rules will...

New UK lockdown likely sooner rather than later, ex-advisor warns

New UK lockdown likely sooner rather than later, ex-advisor warns

-- 2020-09-19 16:44:35

Britain is likely to need to reintroduce some national coronavirus lockdown measures sooner rather than later, a leading epidemiologist and former senior government health advisor said on Saturday, re...

French Finance Minister catches coronavirus

French Finance Minister catches coronavirus

Reuters 2020-09-19 10:12:08

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday he had tested positive for coronavirus, but had no symptoms and would continue to carry out his duties while quarantined at home. “I tested...

UK witnessing second wave of coronavirus, Boris Johnson says

UK witnessing second wave of coronavirus, Boris Johnson says

-- 2020-09-19 10:09:13

The UK is "now seeing a second wave" of Covid-19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said, adding: "It's been inevitable we'd see it in this country." Mr Johnson said he did not "want to go into bigger...

Around 5 million UK jobs still furloughed at end of July

Around 5 million UK jobs still furloughed at end of July

-- 2020-09-18 16:35:30

Around 5.0 million British jobs remained on furlough at the end of July, down from a peak of just under 9.0 million but still leaving millions of workers facing uncertainty with the scheme due to be w...

One-hour DnaNudge Covid-19 test is accurate, study finds

One-hour DnaNudge Covid-19 test is accurate, study finds

Reuters 2020-09-18 14:14:02

A Covid-19 test known as DnaNudge that gives results in just over an hour and which requires no laboratory was accurate in almost all cases, according to an academic review in the Lancet. The new tes...

Russia to sell 100m doses of COVID-19 vaccine to India

Russia to sell 100m doses of COVID-19 vaccine to India

-- 2020-09-16 17:16:28

Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has agreed to supply 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik-V, to Indian drug company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, the fund said on Wednesday, as...

24 feared dead as migrant boat capsizes near Libya

24 feared dead as migrant boat capsizes near Libya

-- 2020-09-15 15:44:57

At least two dozen people drowned and presumed dead after a boat carrying migrants bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the UN migration agency said Tuesday. Safa Msehli, a s...

Britain issues travel advisory for China, warns citizens of arbitrary detention

Britain issues travel advisory for China, warns citizens of arbitrary detention

Reuters 2020-09-15 14:20:10

Britain has issued new a travel advisory for China, warning that its nationals may be at risk of arbitrary detention, after several foreigners were held on various charges including cases involving st...

Putin offers $1.5b lifeline to embattled Belarus leader

Putin offers $1.5b lifeline to embattled Belarus leader

Reuters 2020-09-15 09:32:19

Russian President Vladimir Putin bestowed a $1.5 billion loan on Belarus on Monday (local time) in a gesture of support for its leader Alexander Lukashenko, who flew to entreat his patron for help aft...

Boris Johnson faces rebellion over plan to break Brexit treaty

Boris Johnson faces rebellion over plan to break Brexit treaty

-- 2020-09-14 16:56:14

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will try to persuade rebellious lawmakers in his party to vote on Monday for a bill that will break international law by breaching parts of the Brexit divorce deal...

Boris Johnson accuses EU of plotting food blockade

Boris Johnson accuses EU of plotting food blockade

-- 2020-09-13 17:07:50

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused the European Union of threatening to impose a trade border down the Irish Sea and a food blockade between Britain and Northern Ireland unless the bloc&...

France's daily Covid cases tops 10,000 for first time

France's daily Covid cases tops 10,000 for first time

Reuters 2020-09-13 09:42:06

France has had 10,561 new confirmed Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, health authorities said on Saturday (local time), a new daily record as the number topped 10,000 for the first time. The lates...

Police fire teargas as migrants demand to leave Greek island after fire

Police fire teargas as migrants demand to leave Greek island after fire

-- 2020-09-12 21:08:09

Greek police fired teargas on Saturday during a protest by angry migrants left homeless by a blaze at Europe’s largest refugee centre, who demanded to leave the island of Lesbos as authorities s...

Spanish princess quarantined after classmate diagnosed with COVID-19

Spanish princess quarantined after classmate diagnosed with COVID-19

-- 2020-09-12 21:04:23

Princess Leonor, the heir to the Spanish throne, has gone into quarantine after a classmate at her school tested positive for COVID-19, the royal household said on Saturday. The 14-year-old daughter...

Moria migrants stuck on Lesbos island, locals oppose shelter plans

Moria migrants stuck on Lesbos island, locals oppose shelter plans

-- 2020-09-11 14:37:46

Thousands of migrants remained stranded on Lesbos island for a third day on streets near Greece’s largest migrant camp on Friday, after fires burned the facility the ground. The Moria camp - no...

UN calls for $35b more for WHO COVID-19 programme

UN calls for $35b more for WHO COVID-19 programme

Reuters 2020-09-10 23:36:42

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for $35 billion more, including $15 billion in the next three months, for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “ACT Accelerator&rd...

EU asks Facebook, Google, Twitter to do more against fake news

EU asks Facebook, Google, Twitter to do more against fake news

-- 2020-09-10 22:58:01

Two years after agreeing to a self-regulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation, Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, Twitter and other tech rivals must try harder to be more effective, the Euro...

UK delivers projects worth £500m for Commonwealth citizens

UK delivers projects worth £500m for Commonwealth citizens

-- 2020-09-10 17:22:09

More than 40 projects have been delivered during the United Kingdom’s leadership of the Commonwealth, a new report shows. The projects included providing antibiotics to more than nine million p...

Thousands of refugees homeless after fire destroys migrant camp on Greek island

Thousands of refugees homeless after fire destroys migrant camp on Greek island

-- 2020-09-09 21:32:31

Thousands of refugees have been made homeless after a fire engulfed Moria, a notoriously overcrowded refugee camp on Greece's Lesbos island, where about 13,000 people had been living in a space design...

Post-Brexit bill breaks international law, UK acknowledges

Post-Brexit bill breaks international law, UK acknowledges

-- 2020-09-09 18:45:02

Britain threw Brexit trade talks into chaos on Wednesday by announcing draft legislation that explicitly acknowledges some of its provisions would break international law, according to a document. Th...

Russia to sell 32.0m COVID-19 vaccine doses to Mexican firm

Russia to sell 32.0m COVID-19 vaccine doses to Mexican firm

-- 2020-09-09 18:40:25

Russia said on Wednesday it had signed a deal to supply Mexican pharmaceutical firm Landsteiner Scientific with 32.0 million doses of the Russian-produced COVID-19 vaccine “Sputnik-V”. De...

WHO chief scientist says vaccine safety top priority

WHO chief scientist says vaccine safety top priority

Reuters 2020-09-09 15:18:40

Safety of a prospective Covid-19 vaccine comes “first and foremost”, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist said on Wednesday, as a trial of a leading candidate from AstraZe...

Fire erupts at Greece’s overcrowded refugee camp

Fire erupts at Greece’s overcrowded refugee camp

-- 2020-09-09 10:14:08

Fire broke out at Greece’s overcrowded migrant camp of Moria on the island of Lesbos early on Wednesday, fire brigade officials said. There were no reports of injuries so far, while the cause o...