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About 500 Airbus staff under quarantine after Hamburg COVID-19 outbreak 24 Jan 2021 - 07:47 pm

BERLIN - Airbus said on Sunday about 500 of its staff had gone into quarantine after 21 workers at its aircraft factory in...

Italy to take legal action over COVID vaccine delays to get promised doses 24 Jan 2021 - 07:33 pm

MILAN - Italy will take legal action against Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca over delays in deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines to secure agreed supplies...

Portugal votes in socially distanced presidential election at height of pandemic 24 Jan 2021 - 07:29 pm

LISBON - Masked, socially distanced and each using their own pen to avoid spreading germs, the Portuguese headed to the polls on Sunday...

Serbia reports first case of new coronavirus variant 24 Jan 2021 - 07:12 pm

BELGRADE - The first case of a new variant of the coronavirus has been detected in Serbia in a woman who arrived from...

Britain's Boris Johnson presses Biden for new trade deal 24 Jan 2021 - 03:24 pm

Washington: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made clear to President Joe Biden on Saturday that he's eager to forge a new U.S.-U.K. trade...

Vaccines may work less well on variants, UK’s Hancock warns 24 Jan 2021 - 12:58 pm

The UK’s health minister warned that coronavirus vaccines may be less effective against new variants of the disease, such as those found in...

Britain still a long way from easing virus lockdown, minister says 24 Jan 2021 - 12:19 pm

LONDON: British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday the country was still a long way from being able to relax a national...

KLM to keep long haul flights as Covid testing demands are softened 24 Jan 2021 - 11:19 am

Dutch airline KLM will keep operating long haul flights, including for vaccine distribution, after agreeing with the government on softer demands for returning...

UK's Johnson says he looks forward to working with Biden on shared goals 24 Jan 2021 - 09:56 am

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday he looked forward to working with U.S. President Joe Biden on their shared goals,...

2100 arrested at protests demanding Navalny's release 23 Jan 2021 - 07:53 pm

MOSCOW: Protests erupted in dozens of cities across Russia on Saturday to demand the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin's most...

UK vaccination rate hits record daily high, total deaths at 97,329 23 Jan 2021 - 07:24 pm

LONDON: Britain vaccinated 478,248 people in the 24 hours to Saturday with a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, a daily record according...

Russia arrests 350 protesters demanding Navalny's release 23 Jan 2021 - 02:49 pm

MOSCOW: Russian police on Saturday arrested hundreds of protesters who took to the streets in temperatures as low as minus-50 C (minus-58 F)...

Swedish PM admits strategy to stop virus fell short 23 Jan 2021 - 02:26 pm

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said his government should have taken more aggressive steps and moved more quickly to stop the spread of...

Britain to discuss tighter travel restrictions -BBC 23 Jan 2021 - 12:27 pm

LONDON - British ministers are to discuss on Monday further tightening travel restrictions, the BBC reported on Saturday, adding that people arriving in...

Norway's capital tightens lockdown to combat more contagious virus variant 23 Jan 2021 - 12:07 pm

OSLO - Norway's capital Oslo and nine neighbouring municipalities imposed some of their toughest lockdown measures yet on Saturday after an outbreak of...

UK doctors call for shorter gap between Pfizer vaccine doses 23 Jan 2021 - 11:50 am

LONDON - A group of British doctors have written to England's chief medical officer to tell him to cut the gap between doses...

Russia arrests protesters demanding Alexei Navalny's release 23 Jan 2021 - 11:34 am

MOSCOW - Russian police are arresting protesters demanding the release of top Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at demonstrations in the country’s east...