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Pain of Diana's death pushed me to drink and drugs, Harry says

REUTERS 2021-05-21 17:36:44

Prince Harry said he abused alcohol to numb the pain of his mother Diana's death in 1997, and accused the British royal family of neglecting him and his wife Meghan as she contemplated suicide. Harry...

BBC fell short over Princess Diana interview, Bashir 'deceitful'

Reuters 2021-05-20 20:05:48

The BBC fell short of its high standards for integrity over how it persuaded Princess Diana to give the broadcaster an interview in 1995 and the journalist involved, Martin Bashir, was guilty of decei...

EU agrees to ease travel restrictions on non-EU tourists

REUTERS 2021-05-19 18:52:31

European Union countries agreed on Wednesday to ease COVID-19 travel restrictions on non-EU visitors ahead of the summer tourist season, two EU sources said. Ambassadors from the 27 EU countries appr...

Sweden's third COVID wave ebbing fast as vaccines bite

REUTERS 2021-05-18 19:58:05

Sweden, which has shunned lockdowns throughout the pandemic, has seen the number of cases and intensive care patients drop fast in the recent weeks with more than 40 per cent of the adult population n...

Italy shortens COVID-19 curfew, eases other restrictions

-- 2021-05-18 12:47:00

Italy's government has approved a decree pushing back with immediate effect a nightly coronavirus curfew to 11:00 pm from 10:00 pm and easing other curbs in the regions where infections are low. Prim...

Police move revellers off streets at Barcelona after lockdown easing

REUTERS 2021-05-16 21:51:17

Spanish police said they cleared 9,000 revellers from Barcelona's city centre streets and the nearby beach on Sunday to prevent dangerous overcrowding on the first full weekend after COVID-19 restrict...

Greece formally opens to tourists after months of pandemic restrictions

REUTERS 2021-05-16 17:22:43

Greece formally opened to visitors on Saturday, kicking off a summer season it hopes will resurrect its vital tourism industry battered by the coronavirus pandemic. After months of lockdown restricti...

Italian dictionary scraps 'sexist' definitions of a woman

REUTERS 2021-05-15 16:26:47

An Italian dictionary has revised its "sexist" definition of a woman - dropping negative words including "whore" and "bitch" from the list of synonyms following a high-profile campaign for change. Do...

Shipwreck off Tunis leaves at least 17 migrants dead

-- 2021-05-14 10:38:32

At least 17 African migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunis as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, the Tunisian Red Crescent said on Thursday. The Tunisian coastguard had res...

Madame Tussauds moves Prince Harry and Meghan waxworks from royals

-- 2021-05-13 20:40:26

A year after leaving their royal duties to move to Los Angeles, Madame Tussauds has now decided waxwork models of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan now belong in the attraction's Hollywood zone and not...

Russia reports first cases of Indian Covid variant

Reuters 2021-05-13 13:32:35

Russia has recorded its first cases of the variant of Covid-19 first found in India, Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday, citing authorities in the Ulyanovsk region. The regional branch of cons...

Turkey urges Muslim nations to take clear stance over Gaza

-- 2021-05-13 13:10:36

Muslim countries must show a united and clear stance over Israel's conflict with the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza, Turkey's vice president, Fuat Oktay, said on Thursday, criticising world powers fo...

Chernobyl staff record increase in nuclear activity within safe limits

REUTERS 2021-05-12 21:47:08

Scientists have recorded a rise in nuclear activity in the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine since it was covered over in 2017, but the rise has levelled off and does n...

German vaccine seekers becoming aggressive, doctors say

Reuters 2021-05-12 16:23:29

Germans desperate to be vaccinated against the coronavirus are becoming increasingly aggressive, doctors said on Wednesday, as frustration mounts after six months of lockdowns even though infection ra...

Pope Francis supports waiving intellectual property rights for vaccines

REUTERS 2021-05-08 19:51:53

Pope Francis on Saturday supported waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, backing a proposal by US President Joe Biden that has been rebuffed by some European nations, including G...

EU agrees potential 1.8 billion-dose purchase of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine

-- 2021-05-08 19:17:19

The European Union cemented its support for Pfizer-BioNTech and its novel COVID-19 vaccine technology Saturday by agreeing to a massive contract extension for a potential 1.8 billion doses through 202...

Indian coronavirus variant spreads more easily, British health officials say

-- 2021-05-07 19:38:38

British health officials on Friday labelled a coronavirus variant first found in India a "variant of concern" due to evidence it spreads more easily, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying the situa...

Firefighters tackle blaze at 19-storey London tower block

-- 2021-05-07 19:09:23

Firefighters in London were tackling a blaze at a 19-storey block of flats in the east of the city on Friday, with smoke emerging from parts of the 8th, 9th and 10th floors and ambulances treating peo...

Third wave of pandemic 'appears to be broken, German health minister says

-- 2021-05-07 17:21:55

The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be broken, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday, as social distancing measures and an accelerating vaccination campaign help lower the...

Nearly 20 million more people hit by food crises in 2020: Report

Reuters 2021-05-05 14:25:37

Nearly 20 million more people faced food crises last year amid armed conflict, the Covid-19 pandemic and weather extremes, and the outlook for this year is again grim, according to a report by the Glo...

Netherlands won't ease lockdown further until at least May 18

REUTERS 2021-05-01 21:56:47

The Netherlands has postponed a further easing of lockdown measures until at least May 18 as COVID-19 infections remain high and hospitals are struggling with large numbers of coronavirus patients, th...

AstraZeneca's CEO defends COVID-19 vaccine supply

REUTERS 2021-04-30 18:44:53

Pascal Soriot, who is under intense fire from the European Union over the delivery of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines, said on Friday the drugmaker he runs had not overpromised on the supply of shots....

Boris Johnson's phone number was online for 15 years, report says

-- 2021-04-30 16:32:22

The British government downplayed allegations Friday of security risk after it was reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cell phone number was openly available on the internet for 15 year...

Boris Johnson faces probe into apartment renovation costs

CNN 2021-04-28 18:05:13

Britain's political spending watchdog will launch a formal investigation into the funding of renovations to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's apartment in Downing Street. The UK's Electoral Commission s...

Independent models, countries provide different estimation on carbon emissions

-- 2021-04-27 19:39:29

Scientists said on Monday they have detected a large gap, equal to about what the United States emits annually, between the amounts of climate-warming emissions that countries report and the amount th...

Global military spending rises by 2.6pc despite pandemic

-- 2021-04-26 20:26:25

Global military expenditure rose by 2.6 per cent to $1.98 trillion last year even as some defence funds were reallocated to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Inst...

European Union sues AstraZeneca over delayed vaccine delivery

-- 2021-04-26 19:37:54

The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, has initiated a legal action against AstraZeneca for not respecting its contract for the supply of COVID-19 vaccines and for not ha...

Netherlands to ban flights from India over virus fear

XINHUA 2021-04-26 18:27:26

The Dutch ministry in charge of aviation said Sunday that flights from India would be banned until at least May 1 amid concerns about a new coronavirus variant, reported Sputnik. "A flight ban will t...

Indian coronavirus variant reaches Switzerland

-- 2021-04-25 20:35:33

The first case of the Indian variant of COVID-19 was confirmed in Switzerland, federal government's centre for public health of Switzerland said, as other countries introduce travel bans to contain it...

EU blames China for endangering peace in South China Sea

Reuters 2021-04-25 16:39:13

The European Union called out China on Saturday for endangering peace in the South China Sea and urged all parties to abide by a 2016 tribunal ruling which rejected most of China’s claim to sove...