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Britain to offer vaccine booster shots for 32 million next month -The Telegraph 02 Aug 2021 - 12:38 am

Britain will offer COVID-19 booster vaccines to 32 million Britons starting early next month with up to 2,000 pharmacies set to deliver the...

Pizza for shots: UK targets young with vaccine incentives 01 Aug 2021 - 08:31 pm

LONDON - Restaurants, ride-hailing apps and food delivery services are backing Britain’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, offering discounts and even free slices of pizza...

Crowds in Berlin defy ban, protest coronavirus restrictions 01 Aug 2021 - 07:53 pm

Berlin - Hundreds of people turned out in Berlin on Sunday to protest the German government’s anti-coronavirus measures despite a ban on the...

Hackers attack Rome region vaccine sign-up site 01 Aug 2021 - 07:42 pm

ROME - The Italian region that includes Rome says its website has been hacked, making it temporarily impossible for residents to sign up...

Russian cosmonauts give video tour of module that jolted space station 01 Aug 2021 - 05:23 pm

MOSCOW: Russian cosmonauts have given a video tour of the interior of a research module which briefly threw the International Space Station out...

Pfizer and Moderna raises prices for its COVID-19 vaccines in EU- FT 01 Aug 2021 - 03:04 pm

Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc have raised the prices of their COVID-19 vaccines in their latest European Union supply contracts, the Financial Times...

Sunak demands urgent easing of UK travel rules, Times says 01 Aug 2021 - 11:15 am

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has urged an easing of the U.K.’s travel restrictions, which he said are damaging the country’s tourism industry and overall...

Wildfire in western Greece forces village, beach evacuations 31 Jul 2021 - 09:18 pm

ATHENS, Greece: A wildfire that broke out Saturday in western Greece forced the evacuation of four villages and people on a beach by...

Hungary nurses demand better pay to stem exodus 31 Jul 2021 - 02:09 pm

Budapest: More than 1,000 nurses gathered in Budapest on Saturday to demand better pay, after a survey showed many of them are considering...

More countries hike climate pledges, piling pressure on major emitters 31 Jul 2021 - 01:32 pm

Brussels: A group of mostly smaller countries submitted new, more ambitious climate pledges to the United Nations this week, raising pressure on big...

Hard-won gains at risk as Delta variant spreads- WHO 30 Jul 2021 - 08:16 pm

GENEVA: The world is at risk of losing hard-won gains in fighting COVID-19 as the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads, but WHO-approved vaccines...

Wildfire rages in remote Finnish valley 30 Jul 2021 - 06:18 pm

HELSINKI: Finland's worst wildfire in more than half a century scorched the country's northwest for a fifth day on Friday, tearing through forests...

COVID-19 Delta variant gains prevalence in Italy - health institute 30 Jul 2021 - 06:01 pm

MILAN: The highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus has gained dominance in Italy, the National Health Institute (ISS) said on Friday, releasing...

England's COVID-19 prevalence rises but increase may be slowing, ONS says 30 Jul 2021 - 05:48 pm

LONDON: The prevalence of COVID-19 infections in England is estimated to have risen to 1 in 65 people in the week to July...

Greece issues wildfires warning over 'dangerous' heatwave 30 Jul 2021 - 05:41 pm

ATHENS: Greek authorities warned the public against unnecessary movement on Friday and said there was a high risk of wildfires during a "dangerous"...

'Don't worry!' says Moscow after space station thrown off course 30 Jul 2021 - 04:53 pm

MOSCOW: Russia sought to reassure international partners on Friday that an incident which briefly knocked the International Space Station (ISS) off course had...