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London police face backlash after dragging mourners from vigil for murdered woman

London police face backlash after dragging mourners from vigil for murdered woman

-- 2021-03-15 11:20:14

London police faced a backlash from the public on Sunday and an official inquiry into their actions after using heavy-handed tactics to break up an outdoor vigil for a woman whose suspected killer is...

British Airways CEO calls for vaccinated people to travel without restrictions

British Airways CEO calls for vaccinated people to travel without restrictions

-- 2021-03-14 12:42:50

British Airways’s new boss said vaccinated people should be allowed to travel without restriction and non-vaccinated people with a negative COVID-19 test, as he set out his ideas for a travel re...

Kazakh military plane crash leaves four dead

Kazakh military plane crash leaves four dead

REUTERS 2021-03-13 19:54:00

An An-26 military aircraft flying from the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan, crashed while landing in Almaty on Saturday, killing four of six people on board, the Central Asian nation's emergencies ministry...

Queen Elizabeth makes first appearance since Harry-Meghan's interview

Queen Elizabeth makes first appearance since Harry-Meghan's interview

-- 2021-03-13 16:30:52

Britain's Queen Elizabeth has made her first appearance since a tell-all interview by grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan rocked the monarchy, but made no reference to the crisis it had caused h...

France approves J&J's single-dose vaccine

France approves J&J's single-dose vaccine

Reuters 2021-03-13 14:01:24

France’s health regulator said on Friday it had approved Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine for use in France, a day after it was approved by the European Union authoriti...

Harry, Meghan's popularity plummets in UK after Oprah interview

Harry, Meghan's popularity plummets in UK after Oprah interview

-- 2021-03-13 10:51:51

The popularity of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan has tumbled in Britain and has never been lower following their explosive interview with US chat show host Oprah Winfrey, according to a poll on Frid...

AstraZeneca further cuts EU vaccine supply target

AstraZeneca further cuts EU vaccine supply target

Reuters 2021-03-12 14:32:20

AstraZeneca cut its supply forecast of Covid-19 vaccine to the European Union in the first quarter to about 30 million doses, a third of its contractual obligations and a 25 per cent drop from pledges...

Prince William denied British royal family is racist

Prince William denied British royal family is racist

Reuters 2021-03-12 10:12:23

Prince William denied on Thursday that Britain’s royals were racist after Meghan, wife of his younger brother Harry, said one unnamed member of the family had asked how dark their son Archie&rsq...

EU regulator approves J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine

EU regulator approves J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine

AP 2021-03-11 19:57:27

The European Medicines Agency has authorised Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose coronavirus vaccine, giving the European Union’s 27 nations a fourth licensed vaccine to try to curb the pande...

'We're not racist', Prince William says after Meghan and Harry interview

'We're not racist', Prince William says after Meghan and Harry interview

-- 2021-03-11 18:12:50

Prince William said on Thursday that Britain’s royal family was not racist after reveleations by his brother’s wife Meghan that a member of the family had asked how dark their son Archie&r...

European Parliament to seek carbon border levy by 2023

European Parliament to seek carbon border levy by 2023

-- 2021-03-10 13:54:42

The European Parliament on Tuesday dropped its call to phase out the free allowances industrial sectors receive through the European Union carbon market if those sectors become covered by the bloc&rsq...

Queen Elizabeth 'saddened' by Harry, Meghan's experiences

Queen Elizabeth 'saddened' by Harry, Meghan's experiences

-- 2021-03-10 12:06:28

Queen Elizabeth said on Tuesday the British royals were saddened by the challenging experiences of her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan and promised to privately address revelations about a r...

Crisis meetings held following Meghan, Harry interview

Crisis meetings held following Meghan, Harry interview

BBC 2021-03-09 21:51:18

Crisis meetings involving senior royals have taken place following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's interview with Oprah Winfrey. BBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph said Buckingham Palace "will no...

Russia sues Google, Facebook, Twitter for failure to remove protest content

Russia sues Google, Facebook, Twitter for failure to remove protest content

-- 2021-03-09 16:47:00

Russian authorities have sued five social media platforms for allegedly failing to delete posts urging children to take part in illegal protests. Twitter, Google, Facebook each have three cases again...

Turkish olive farmer battles to save her land from coal mine

Turkish olive farmer battles to save her land from coal mine

REUTERS 2021-03-09 10:15:28

Behind Tayyibe Demirel’s olive groves in southwest Turkey lies a vast, grey expanse, stripped bare by a coal mine eating into the rolling hillside. On the horizon, heavy smoke billows from three...

Meghan accuses UK royals of racism, reveals thoughts of suicide

Meghan accuses UK royals of racism, reveals thoughts of suicide

REUTERS 2021-03-08 16:06:56

Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, accused Britain’s royal family of raising concerns about how dark their son’s skin might be and pushing her to the brink of suicide, in a tell-all televis...

Swiss agree to outlaw facial coverings in 'burqa ban' vote

Swiss agree to outlaw facial coverings in 'burqa ban' vote

REUTERS 2021-03-08 12:44:31

A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland won a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday instigated by the same group that organised a 2009 ban on new minarets. The measure...

French billionaire politician Olivier Dassault killed in chopper crash

French billionaire politician Olivier Dassault killed in chopper crash

-- 2021-03-08 10:19:59

French billionaire Olivier Dassault was killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash, a police source said, with President Emmanuel Macron paying tribute to the 69-year old conservative politician. Dassaul...

Switzerland to approve veil ban

Switzerland to approve veil ban

-- 2021-03-07 19:57:30

A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland was headed toward a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday viewed as a test of attitudes toward Muslims. Projections for broadcas...

Austria suspends inoculations with AstraZeneca vaccine after death

Austria suspends inoculations with AstraZeneca vaccine after death

-- 2021-03-07 19:27:42

Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots,...

Air France flight made emergency landing in Bulgaria

Air France flight made emergency landing in Bulgaria

REUTERS 2021-03-06 21:45:10

An Air France flight en route from Paris to New Delhi made an emergency landing at Sofia Airport in Bulgaria on Friday at about 5 pm local time (1500 GMT) because of a disruptive passenger, Bulgarian...

Six killed in Ukrainian bus accident in Poland

Six killed in Ukrainian bus accident in Poland

-- 2021-03-06 19:21:50

Six people died and more than 30 were injured in an accident involving a Ukrainian bus in southeastern Poland, local medical rescue services said. Earlier on Saturday state news agency PAP reported t...

UK judge asks Mail to publish front page statement of Meghan's privacy win

UK judge asks Mail to publish front page statement of Meghan's privacy win

-- 2021-03-06 10:51:47

British newspaper the Mail on Sunday must publish a front-page statement to say Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, had won a privacy case against it, according to a ruling handed down by a London High Cou...

Pope Francis departs Rome for risky, historic Iraq tour

Pope Francis departs Rome for risky, historic Iraq tour

-- 2021-03-05 17:53:53

Pope Francis left Rome on Friday to start a four-day trip to Iraq, his most risky foreign trip since his election in 2012 and the first visit by a pontiff to the country. An Alitalia airplane carryin...

Meghan accuses Buckingham Palace of 'perpetuating falsehoods'

Meghan accuses Buckingham Palace of 'perpetuating falsehoods'

BBC 2021-03-04 20:45:37

The Duchess of Sussex has said Buckingham Palace could not expect her and Prince Harry to be silent if it was "perpetuating falsehoods about us". In a clip of Oprah Winfrey's interview with the coupl...

UK royal Meghan awarded $630,000 after court privacy win against Mail

UK royal Meghan awarded $630,000 after court privacy win against Mail

-- 2021-03-03 11:37:18

Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, was awarded 450,000 pounds ($630,000) on Tuesday as a provisional payment towards her legal costs after she won a privacy claim against the Mail on Sunday wh...

France, allies to push on with protest at IAEA over Iran's activities

France, allies to push on with protest at IAEA over Iran's activities

-- 2021-03-03 10:24:30

France and its Western allies plan to lodge a protest with the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog to criticise Iran’s decision to curb cooperation with the agency, the French foreign ministe...

UK's Prince Philip still in hospital after two weeks

UK's Prince Philip still in hospital after two weeks

REUTERS 2021-03-02 17:39:24

Britain’s Prince Philip was receiving treatment and undergoing heart tests on Tuesday, two weeks after the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth was admitted to hospital in London as a precau...

Prince Harry worried history would repeat itself

Prince Harry worried history would repeat itself

-- 2021-03-02 10:40:09

Prince Harry, who shocked Britain last year when he and his wife Meghan stepped back from royal duties, told US interviewer Oprah Winfrey that he had worried about history repeating itself, according...

Former French president Sarkozy convicted of corruption, handed prison sentence

Former French president Sarkozy convicted of corruption, handed prison sentence

Reuters 2021-03-01 21:42:13

A French court found former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of trying to bribe a judge and influence peddling on Monday and sentenced him to three years in prison, a stunning fall from grace for a ma...