-- 2020-12-29 11:45:04
Milan woke up to a thick blanket of snow on Monday, thrilling children but disrupting anyone trying to get back to work after the strict Christmas lockdown. Masked city workers were out at dawn shove...
REUTERS 2020-12-28 13:49:29
Britain will ban “buy one get one free” promotions for food high in fat, sugar or salt and free refills of sugary soft drinks in restaurants from April 2022, the government said on Monday,...
-- 2020-12-28 13:22:32
Several European countries have launched coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccination as the first batch of vaccines was distributed among European Union (EU) member states, in the hope of defeating the virus....
Reuters 2020-12-27 22:40:32
German pilot Samy Kramer has traced a giant syringe in the sky, flying 200 kilometres to remind people about the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Europe. The 20-year-old pilot mapped out...
Reuters 2020-12-27 19:07:28
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin will receive the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a Russian state TV channel on Sunday. “He said he will b...
AP 2020-12-27 16:28:25
Edward Snowden has become a father, his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told Interfax. Former CIA and NSA agent Edward Snowden and his wife Lindsay Mills announced the birth of their first child on social m...
-- 2020-12-27 14:29:46
An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said, while the interior minister said there were no immediate re...
REUTERS 2020-12-27 12:14:50
British fishermen said on Saturday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had sold out fish stocks to the European Union with a Brexit trade deal that gives EU boats significant access to the United Kingdo...
Reuters 2020-12-26 20:52:55
Hungary stole a march on its fellow EU nations as it started vaccinating its people against COVID-19 on Saturday, a day ahead of rollouts in countries including France and Germany as the pandemic surg...
BBC 2020-12-26 18:18:19
France has confirmed the first case in the country of the more contagious coronavirus variant recently identified in the UK. The French health ministry said the person was a French citizen in the cen...
-- 2020-12-26 16:21:44
Russia on Saturday approved its main COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, for use by people over the age of 60, Russian news agencies cited the health ministry as saying. People over 60 have thus far been ex...
REUTERS 2020-12-26 09:20:51
Turkey would like better ties with Israel but Israeli policy towards the Palestinians remains “unacceptable”, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. Turkey and Israel, once allies, have...
-- 2020-12-25 19:00:35
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would like to have better ties with Israel and that talks at the intelligence level continued between the two sides, but criticised Israeli...
-- 2020-12-25 17:10:29
Pope Francis celebrated a low-key Christmas Eve Mass made sombre by the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and said people should feel obliged to help the needy because Jesus himself was born a poor out...
-- 2020-12-25 10:33:53
More than a thousand migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were left to sleep in the cold after their camp in northwestern Bosnia burned down amid a dispute among Bosnian politicians ov...
AP 2020-12-24 21:40:34
Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year's chaos for cross-border commerce and bring a measure of certainty to businesses after years of...
Reuters 2020-12-23 15:32:19
The British government will review whether it needs to impose its strictest Covid-19 restrictions on more of the country on Wednesday as a highly infectious variant continues to spread but will not ch...
-- 2020-12-23 14:13:56
Rail, air and sea services between the UK and France are resuming this morning after the French government agreed to ease its travel ban over Covid fears. French citizens, British nationals living in...
Reuters 2020-12-23 12:56:42
Three police officers have been shot dead in an incident in central France, and a fourth officer wounded, the country’s national police force confirmed on Wednesday. The news was earlier report...
-- 2020-12-23 12:24:18
Europe became the first region worldwide to cross 500,000 coronavirus (Covid-19) deaths on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, as a new variant of the coronavirus discovered in Britain threatened t...
REUTERS 2020-12-22 15:19:09
The United Kingdom was stuck in Covid-19 isolation on Tuesday after much of the world cut off travel ties due to a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, snarling one of Europe’s most importa...
-- 2020-12-22 09:13:32
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday he had tricked a Russian secret agent into disclosing details of the botched plot to kill him and had been told that poison had been placed in his underpan...
-- 2020-12-21 22:02:03
A slew of countries closed their borders to Britain on Monday over fears of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, heightening global panic, causing travel chaos and raising the prospect of UK fo...
REUTERS 2020-12-21 15:31:32
The United Kingdom was on Monday shut off from much of Europe after its closest allies cut transport ties due to fears about a new strain of the coronavirus, sowing chaos for families and companies ju...
-- 2020-12-20 20:03:48
A number of European countries have or are considering banning travel from the UK to prevent the spread of a more infectious variant of coronavirus. Both the Netherlands and Belgium have suspended fl...
-- 2020-12-20 14:58:48
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is in "close contact" with UK officials over the emergence of a new variant of coronavirus. The new variant is spreading more rapidly than the original...
-- 2020-12-19 17:30:58
Russian authorities said on Saturday that 585 people had died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the country's official death toll to 50,347, reports Reuters. Authorities also reported 28,209...
-- 2020-12-19 14:00:39
A fire in a private hospital’s Covid-19 intensive care unit killed eight people, the governor’s office in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep said on Saturday, reports Reuters....
-- 2020-12-19 11:55:25
Italy has ordered a nationwide lockdown over much of the Christmas and New Year period in an effort to combat a rise in coronavirus cases. The country will be under "red-zone" restrictions over the p...
-- 2020-12-17 16:04:22
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Covid-19, the French Presidency said on Thursday. “The President of the Republic has been diagnosed positive for COVID-19 today,”...
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