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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
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....
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...
-- 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....
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
© 2024 - All Rights with The Financial Express