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UK health minister tests positive for coronavirus

UK health minister tests positive for coronavirus

Reuters 2020-03-11 11:23:37

British junior health minister Nadine Dorries has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating, she said on Tuesday. Dorries said she took “all the advised precautions” as soon a...

Airlines strive to stave off calamity as coronavirus locks down Italy

Airlines strive to stave off calamity as coronavirus locks down Italy

-- 2020-03-10 20:00:57

Airlines around the world sank deeper into crisis on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus epidemic and Italy’s lockdown hammered passenger numbers, forced the cancellation of thousands of flight...

Germany reports first two deaths from COVID-19

Germany reports first two deaths from COVID-19

-- 2020-03-10 18:09:26

The first two deaths from COVID-19 in Germany were confirmed by local authorities on Monday. A 89-year-old woman from Essen and a 78-year-old man from the district of Heinsberg, both in the western s...

Italy orders nationwide lockdown to combat coronavirus

Italy orders nationwide lockdown to combat coronavirus

REUTERS 2020-03-10 10:41:44

The whole of Italy will be placed under lockdown until next month, prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday, in an unprecedented new attempt to beat coronavirus in Europe's worst-affected cou...

Germany, France close North Korea missions amid coronavirus concern

Germany, France close North Korea missions amid coronavirus concern

-- 2020-03-09 12:12:22

Germany and France withdrew their representatives from North Korea and closed their missions on Monday, the British ambassador there said, amid growing concern in the isolated country about the spread...

Italy announces quarantine affecting quarter of population

Italy announces quarantine affecting quarter of population

AP 2020-03-08 10:39:31

Italy’s prime minister announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, imposing restrictions on the movement of about a quarter of the country’s population in a bid to contain a...

UK to abolish tampon tax

UK to abolish tampon tax

-- 2020-03-07 16:48:33

The United Kingdom is expected to abolish the so-called tampon tax at the end of 2020, as the Brexit transition period comes to a close. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is planning to announc...

Italian coronavirus death toll jumps by 41 to 148

Italian coronavirus death toll jumps by 41 to 148

REUTERS 2020-03-06 12:41:12

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen by 41 over the past 24 hours to 148, the Civil Protection Agency said on Thursday, with the contagion in Europe's worst-hit country sh...

Coronavirus death toll mounts to 107 in Italy

Coronavirus death toll mounts to 107 in Italy

Reuters 2020-03-05 13:31:05

Italy closed all schools and universities and took other emergency measures on Wednesday to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Europe’s worst-hit country as the death toll and number o...

Italy announces closure off all schools, universities

Italy announces closure off all schools, universities

-- 2020-03-04 19:44:45

Italy has announced the closure off all schools and universities in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, as the death toll in the country rose to 79. The government ordered classrooms across t...

Two Turkish soldiers killed, six wounded in Syria’s Idlib

Two Turkish soldiers killed, six wounded in Syria’s Idlib

-- 2020-03-04 14:53:05

Two more Turkish soldiers have been killed and six wounded in an attack by Syrian government forces in northwest Syria’s Idlib region, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. Immediatel...

Turkey lets Syrian refugees exit towards Europe

Turkey lets Syrian refugees exit towards Europe

-- 2020-02-29 13:16:27

Groups of refugees and migrants are heading towards the EU after Turkey said it would not abide by a deal to stop them reaching Europe. Turkey's communications chief said the country had not received...

Five die in France building fire

Five die in France building fire

-- 2020-02-27 12:44:23

Five people died on Thursday after a fire broke out in a building in Strasbourg in northeastern France, local firefighters said. Firefighters said in a statement that seven people have also been take...

Denmark confirms first coronavirus case

Denmark confirms first coronavirus case

Reuters 2020-02-27 12:36:21

Denmark has confirmed its first coronavirus infection in a man who returned from a ski holiday in northern Italy, the Danish health authority said on Thursday. The man was put in isolation in his own...

Coronavirus outbreak spreads in Europe from Italy

Coronavirus outbreak spreads in Europe from Italy

-- 2020-02-26 11:16:04

Several European countries have announced their first coronavirus cases, with all appearing to be linked to the growing outbreak in Italy. Austria, Croatia and Switzerland said the cases involved peo...

EU ministers to approve negotiating mandate for UK trade deal

EU ministers to approve negotiating mandate for UK trade deal

-- 2020-02-25 15:25:49

European Union governments are set to adopt a negotiating mandate for their executive European Commission on Tuesday to clinch a deal with Britain this year on future ties after it left the bloc in Ja...

Car drives into carnival crowd in German town

Car drives into carnival crowd in German town

BBC 2020-02-24 22:41:19

A car has driven into a crowd at a carnival parade in the western German town of Volkmarsen on Monday. Bild newspaper reports that more than 30 people were injured, though there has been no official...

US extradition bid for Assange to go before a British court

US extradition bid for Assange to go before a British court

-- 2020-02-24 13:34:00

A British court begins hearings on Monday to decide whether Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States almost a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US...

Macron ‘not sure’ of UK-EU trade deal by end of year

Macron ‘not sure’ of UK-EU trade deal by end of year

-- 2020-02-23 11:33:10

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is "not sure" a UK-EU trade deal will be struck by 31 December, the end of the Brexit transition period. Mr Macron said negotiations starting in March wil...

First Italian dies of coronavirus as outbreak flares in north

First Italian dies of coronavirus as outbreak flares in north

-- 2020-02-22 11:16:44

An elderly man in the northern Italian city of Padua has died after being infected with the coronavirus, becoming the first Italian victim of the disease, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Frid...

Man arrested after muezzin  stabbed inside UK mosque   

Man arrested after muezzin stabbed inside UK mosque  

-- 2020-02-21 17:31:30

A prayer leader in his 70s was stabbed in a London mosque on Thursday and the assailant was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, police and mosque officials said. “The attacker was appreh...

Protesters attack buses carrying  China evacuees in Ukraine   

Protesters attack buses carrying China evacuees in Ukraine  

-- 2020-02-21 16:17:33

Dozens of protesters in a Ukrainian town have attacked buses carrying evacuees from coronavirus-hit China, reports BBC. The evacuees were brought to a health spa in Novi Sanzhary, in the central Po...

Nine dead in 'racist attack' in Germany

Nine dead in 'racist attack' in Germany

-- 2020-02-21 12:06:09

A man suspected of shooting dead nine people in shisha bars in a German town before killing himself and his mother had posted a manifesto online including conspiracy theories and deeply racist views,...

Ex-lawmaker denies offering Assange a pardon from Trump

Ex-lawmaker denies offering Assange a pardon from Trump

-- 2020-02-20 11:04:47

A former Republican congressman has denied he offered a pardon to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of US President Donald Trump. Assange's lawyer said Dana Rohrabacher claimed to be acting...

Suspect, one other found dead after nine people killed in Germany

Suspect, one other found dead after nine people killed in Germany

AP 2020-02-20 10:29:51

A man suspected of fatally shooting nine people in the German city of Hanau was found dead at his home early Thursday, hours after the attacks in and outside two hookah lounges, police said. Officers...

'Ghost ship' washes up on Irish coast

'Ghost ship' washes up on Irish coast

-- 2020-02-18 16:19:32

A "ghost" cargo ship has washed up off the coast of County Cork, Ireland, brought in by the bad weather that lashed Europe in Storm Dennis, reports BBC.  The abandoned boat was spotted on the ro...

First coronavirus death confirmed in Europe

First coronavirus death confirmed in Europe

BBC 2020-02-15 16:24:36

A Chinese tourist has died in France after contracting the new coronavirus - the first fatality from the disease outside Asia. The victim was an 80-year-old woman from China's Hubei province, accordi...

One dead in shooting outside Berlin music venue

One dead in shooting outside Berlin music venue

-- 2020-02-15 15:40:27

German authorities say one person has been killed and three others injured following a shooting late Friday outside a Berlin music venue. Police in the German capital said Saturday that unknown peopl...

UK finance minister quits after row

UK finance minister quits after row

-- 2020-02-13 21:59:29

British finance minister Sajid Javid resigned on Thursday, a surprise move that underlined Prime Minister Boris Johnson's desire to tighten his grip on government in a long-planned reshuffle by jettis...

Britain beyond Brexit, Johnson reshapes government

Britain beyond Brexit, Johnson reshapes government

REUTERS 2020-02-13 13:15:57

Prime minister Boris Johnson will reshape his government on Thursday, appointing a team he hopes will deliver his vision for Britain beyond Brexit and heal the divisions both in his Conservative Party...