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EU drug regulator under pressure to approve Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine

EU drug regulator under pressure to approve Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine

Reuters 2020-12-14 20:14:13

Europe's drug regulator is under increasing pressure to quickly approve the COVID-19 vaccine developed by US giant Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech, officials said, as inoculations get started in Britain...

UK, EU agree to extend Brexit trade talks

UK, EU agree to extend Brexit trade talks

BBC 2020-12-14 09:23:45

The UK and EU have agreed to carry on post-Brexit trade talks after a call between leaders earlier on Sunday. In a joint statement, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commi...

Britain to stop backing overseas fossil fuel projects

Britain to stop backing overseas fossil fuel projects

-- 2020-12-12 16:52:13

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will pledge to end direct government support for overseas fossil fuel projects at a UN summit on Saturday, aiming to spur similar moves by other countries to help...

Greta Thunberg says world in denial on climate action

Greta Thunberg says world in denial on climate action

REUTERS 2020-12-12 09:54:41

Five years on from the Paris Agreement on climate change, the world remains in denial over the actions needed to prevent catastrophic warming, Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said on Fri...

Hunger pandemic at 'humanity's doorstep', WFP chief says in Nobel speech

Hunger pandemic at 'humanity's doorstep', WFP chief says in Nobel speech

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-12-11 11:00:15

With 270 million people – more than the entire population of Western Europe – “marching toward starvation”, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) called for greater action...

UK warns people with serious allergies to avoid Pfizer vaccine

UK warns people with serious allergies to avoid Pfizer vaccine

Reuters 2020-12-09 18:09:02

Britain’s medicine regulator has advised that people with a history of significant allergic reactions do not get Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine after two people reported adverse effect...

Helicopter crashes in French Alps, five killed

Helicopter crashes in French Alps, five killed

-- 2020-12-09 17:51:19

Five people were killed in a helicopter crash in the French Alps on Tuesday and a sixth was injured and fighting for his life, French President Emmanuel Macron said. The helicopter was carrying an ai...

Four lions at Spanish zoo test positive for COVID-19

Four lions at Spanish zoo test positive for COVID-19

Reuters 2020-12-08 18:28:21

Four lions at Barcelona Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19, veterinary authorities said on Tuesday, in only the second known case in which large felines have contracted coronavirus. Three female...

90-year-old British grandma first in world to get Pfizer vaccine

90-year-old British grandma first in world to get Pfizer vaccine

REUTERS 2020-12-08 14:16:19

Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother, on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine shot outside of a trial as Britain began vaccinating its population....

Britain begins rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine

Britain begins rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine

Reuters 2020-12-08 12:49:40

Britain will start rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday, the first Western country to start vaccinating its general population in what was hailed as a decisive...

Prince William, Kate begin UK tour to thank workers for coronavirus efforts   

Prince William, Kate begin UK tour to thank workers for coronavirus efforts  

-- 2020-12-07 17:46:03

William, Queen Elizabeth's grandson and second-in-line to the throne, and Kate are travelling 1,250 miles across England, Scotland and Wales on board the Royal Train as part of their three-day trip....

Report says UK's Johnson ready to walk away from Brexit talks

Report says UK's Johnson ready to walk away from Brexit talks

Reuters 2020-12-07 14:38:20

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is ready to pull out of Brexit talks unless the European Union agrees to budge on its demands, The Sun newspaper reported on Monday. “Today he will tell the...

Queen Elizabeth may go public after having COVID vaccine

Queen Elizabeth may go public after having COVID vaccine

-- 2020-12-06 17:01:04

Britain's Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip may "let it be known" once they have received a vaccine against COVID-19, The Times newspaper reported, citing unnamed royal aides. The 94-year...

Denmark set to end new oil, gas exploration

Denmark set to end new oil, gas exploration

-- 2020-12-04 18:57:56

Denmark will end all new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea, as part of a wider plan to stop extracting fossil fuels by 2050. Its government also agreed to cancel its latest licensing round on...

Prince Harry suggests Covid a rebuke from nature

Prince Harry suggests Covid a rebuke from nature

Reuters 2020-12-03 12:47:56

Britain’s Prince Harry has suggested that the coronavirus pandemic is a rebuke from nature as he called for more action to tackle climate change. The prince spoke during a conversation about th...

EU criticises Britain's ‘rapid’ approval of Covid-19 vaccine

EU criticises Britain's ‘rapid’ approval of Covid-19 vaccine

-- 2020-12-02 20:33:50

The European Union criticised Britain's rapid approval of Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, saying its own procedure was more thorough after Britain became the first western country...

Criminals could target Covid-19 vaccines, Interpol warns

Criminals could target Covid-19 vaccines, Interpol warns

-- 2020-12-02 18:09:07

The Interpol has warned that organised criminal networks could be targeting COVID-19 vaccines, and could look to sell fake shots. The global police co-ordination agency, which is headquartered in Fra...

UK first country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine

UK first country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine

Reuters 2020-12-02 13:50:48

Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use and said that it will be rolled out from early next week. A vaccine is seen as the b...

Pope cancels traditional pre-Christmas ceremony due to pandemic

Pope cancels traditional pre-Christmas ceremony due to pandemic

-- 2020-11-30 22:01:43

Pope Francis has cancelled a ceremony that traditionally begins Rome's Christmas season on Dec 8 at the Spanish Steps because of coronavirus restrictions, the Vatican said on Monday. The pope customa...

Britain, EU resume face-to-face negotiations over trade deal

Britain, EU resume face-to-face negotiations over trade deal

-- 2020-11-29 16:32:14

Face-to-face negotiations between Britain and the European Union over a trade deal restarted earlier on Saturday as the two sides make a last-ditch attempt to reach an agreement with just five weeks t...

155 anti-lockdown protesters arrested in London

155 anti-lockdown protesters arrested in London

-- 2020-11-29 09:04:51

Police in London said on Saturday that they had made 155 arrests as they tried to break up anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests. The police said the arrests had been made for different offences in...

1,300 people wrongly tested positive for coronavirus in UK

1,300 people wrongly tested positive for coronavirus in UK

-- 2020-11-28 19:11:20

Over 1,300 people in Britain were inaccurately informed they were infected with coronavirus after a laboratory error at the government's NHS Test and Trace system, the Department of Health and Social...

North Korean hackers targeted vaccine maker AstraZeneca

North Korean hackers targeted vaccine maker AstraZeneca

-- 2020-11-27 19:57:30

Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca in recent weeks, two people with knowledge of the matter said, as the company races to deploy its v...

EU-UK trade talks resume remotely with focus on fishing and economic fair play

EU-UK trade talks resume remotely with focus on fishing and economic fair play

REUTERS 2020-11-24 15:18:46

British and European Union negotiators on Monday resumed talks on their post-Brexit relationship via video-conferencing, with the focus still squarely on dividing up fishing quotas and ensuring fair c...

WHO envoy predicts third wave of Coronavirus in Europe

WHO envoy predicts third wave of Coronavirus in Europe

-- 2020-11-22 14:23:37

A World Health Organization (WHO) special COVID-19 envoy predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was needed to preve...

France postpones ‘Black Friday’ by a week

France postpones ‘Black Friday’ by a week

AP 2020-11-21 19:32:30

France's government on Friday got supermarket chains and e-commerce platforms like Amazon to agree to postpone "Black Friday" promotions, responding to concerns that shops shuttered by the nation's co...

Eastern Europe crosses over 5.0m COVID-19 cases

Eastern Europe crosses over 5.0m COVID-19 cases

Reuters 2020-11-21 18:43:24

The tally of coronavirus cases in the Eastern European sub-region passed 5.0 million on Saturday, a Reuters tally showed, as governments across Europe take measures to try to rein in surging cases. T...

German doctor arrested for ‘killing’ coronavirus patients

German doctor arrested for ‘killing’ coronavirus patients

Reuters 2020-11-20 23:22:37

German police said they had opened a murder inquiry against a senior doctor in the western city of Essen over the killing of two seriously ill coronavirus patients with a lethal injection. The doctor...

EU, UK have up to 10 days to make Brexit breakthrough: Ireland

EU, UK have up to 10 days to make Brexit breakthrough: Ireland

-- 2020-11-16 16:27:00

Britain and the European Union have a week to 10 days to find a way to unlock trade talks, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Monday, after both sides called on the other to move their posit...

British PM Johnson self-isolating after Covid-19 contact

British PM Johnson self-isolating after Covid-19 contact

-- 2020-11-16 12:23:22

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after meeting an MP who later tested positive for Covid-19. Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care in a London hospital earlier this year w...