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Sun, 03 Jan 2021 07:55:38 +0100
Dozens killed in suspected jihadist attack in Niger
The attack in the border region of Tillabéri on Saturday left at least 50 dead.

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 07:08:52 +0100
Soleimani anniversary: Tensions high a year after US killing of Iran military leader
There are fears of a renewed US-Iran clash a year after the US drone killing of the Revolutionary Guard chief, in the dying days of Donald Trump's presidency.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 23:04:15 +0100
US election: Pro-Trump Republican senators launch final bid to try to overturn Biden victory
The outgoing president's baseless fraud claims and refusal to accept his election defeat has become a defining moment for Republicans and is tearing the party apart.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 21:43:22 +0100
Norway landslide: Four bodies recovered as hunt for survivors continues
Six people are still missing after the December 28 disaster, but rescue efforts are being hampered by short daylight hours and fragile terrain.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 19:14:25 +0100
Ukraine video game 'The Point of No Return' highlights soldiers' post-war trauma
A Ukrainian video game depicts the daily routine of a soldier in the country's separatist-controlled east, where Russia-backed rebels and Ukrainian forces have been fighting for years.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 19:04:36 +0100
Coronavirus: Demands for school closures in England as UK cases hit new record
A leading teachers union is calling for all primary and secondary schools to remain closed in England for two weeks because of rising coronavirus cases.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 16:40:43 +0100
Plane crash fatalities rose in 2020 despite fewer flights tue to COVID-19 pandemic
Five fatal passenger plane accidents resulted in the deaths of 299 people in 2020. The year before, 257 people lost their lives in eight fatal crashes.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 08:30:24 +0100
US Congress hands Trump 'resounding rebuke' as it overrides his defense bill veto
It is the first time since Donald Trump became president that the Republican-controlled Senate dismissed his veto.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 07:22:22 +0100
Iran tells UN inspectors it plans to enrich uranium to 20%
This would push the country's programme a technical step away from weapons-grade levels as it increases pressure on the West over its tattered atomic deal.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 19:37:16 +0100
COVID vaccines: Hesitancy, conspiracy theories and misinformation
In this special edition of The Cube we dive into the difference between legitimate vaccine hesitancy and the anti-vaccine movement.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 19:21:52 +0100
Period poverty: UK becomes latest country to abolish taxes on women's sanitary products
The move comes after Scotland became the first country in the world to offer women free sanitary products. Other countries have followed suit and removed taxes.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:54:40 +0100
Heartwarming harmony as Balkan tensions set aside in Croatia’s hour of need after deadly earthquake
Tensions persist between Croatia and Serbia after the devastating wars in the 1990s. But they have been put aside as the region unifies to help Zagreb after Tuesday's deadly earthquake.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:44:35 +0100
UK posts fourth successive day of COVID-19 cases above 50,000
The figures came as the UK changed its vaccinate rollout strategy to ensure more people receive a first dose earlier.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:25:39 +0100
'An act of cultural vandalism': Erasmus alumni weigh in on UK leaving education programme
The UK's Brexit transition period for leaving the EU has ended and with it the country's membership of the decades-old Erasmus programme. Here's what alumni of the scheme have to say about the UK leaving it.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 17:47:34 +0100
Portugal takes on EU's rotating presidency from Germany
Portugal has several thorny issues to contend with after Germany secured big wins at the end of its presidency.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 17:00:35 +0100
Bosnia migrants: EU leaders blast local response after army sets up tents at fire-hit camp
The Bosnian army was sent to erect tents as shelter for hundreds of migrants at the burnt-out Lipa camp after protests.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 15:28:15 +0100
Future of UK finance: City of London faces uncertainty under EU-UK trade deal
Future of UK finance: City of London faces uncertainty under EU-UK trade deal

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:49:51 +0100
Ireland to bypass post-Brexit Britain with more direct sea routes to Europe
More ships are to run directly to Cherbourg, in France, and the Spanish city of Bilbao in the early months of 2021

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:45:17 +0100
Trump's Blackwater pardons could fuel retaliation on anniversary of Soleimani's assassination ǀ View
As has been the case in the past, Donald Trump doesn’t see the links between his impulsive, corruption-driven decisions, like the Blackwater pardons, and threats to US national security.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:33:21 +0100
Romans jump into Tiber river in New Year's Day tradition
Divers jumped off the Cavour Bridge into Rome’s Tiber river on New Year’s Day, keeping up the annual tradition that has been going on for decades.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:11:37 +0100
English boy raises money for charity by camping out in his garden
Since March, an 11-year-old boy in England has been sleeping out in his garden for a charitable cause, raising over €100,000 for a local hospice.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:36:10 +0100
France brings forward nightly COVID curfew from 20h to 18h in more than a dozen regions
BREAKING: France brings forward nightly COVID curfew from 20h to 18h in more than a dozen regions.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:23:11 +0100
France: New Year rave lasts two nights as authorities condemn COVID-19 risk
A curfew was ignored as the party in Brittany continued overnight on Friday before finally ending on Saturday morning, 36 hours after it began.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 08:21:43 +0100
Erdoğan promises reforms in 2021, but human rights and press freedom are tough nuts to crack
With European sanctions and a possible snap election looming in 2021, Turkey's president says his government is putting the finishing touches on economic and democratic reforms

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 07:22:13 +0100
Case of UK coronavirus strain detected in Florida, US
Health authorities in Florida have reported finding evidence of a case of a newer, apparently more contagious strain of coronavirus which was first seen in England.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 06:53:51 +0100
Health workers in Rome enter 2021 doing the same as 2020 - fighting coronavirus
There wasn't much time to welcome 2021 in hospitals in Rome, where doctors and nurses continue to care for patients with serious cases of COVID-19.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:49:49 +0100
How successful was Germany's presidency of the European Union?
The presidency is now handed over to Portugal for the next six months.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:49:12 +0100
Mobile homes arrive in Croatia to shelter residents after earthquake
Central Croatia continued to experience tremors on Thursday morning, as survivors tried to pick up the pieces from Tuesday's deadly earthquake.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:28:03 +0100
How COVID-19 upended life in Europe throughout 2020
COVID-19 submerged Europe's hospitals, tanked the economy, and forced us to avoid other people. One year since it was first reported in Wuhan, here's how the virus changed life in Europe.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:40:04 +0100
What are the differences between the three main COVID-19 vaccines?
Here we compare the coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer/BioNtech, Moderna and Oxford/AstraZeneca.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:32:17 +0100
Krakow funds LGBT shelter despite Polish government hostility
Krakow has become the first city in Poland to finance an LGBT support shelter.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:12:33 +0100
COVID-19 overflow hospitals 'redundant' without staff to run them, UK paramedic says
More ambulance workers than ever are treating COVID-19 patients in England as a new variant of the virus spreads rapidly

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 14:51:42 +0100
Spain and UK reach deal to place Gibraltar in EU's borderless Schengen zone
Immigration checks at the land frontier between Spain and Gibraltar will end, while Spanish border officials will be stationed at Gibraltar's airport

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 14:29:57 +0100
UK fishermen face new uncertainties over post-Brexit trade deal
EU-based fleets catch up to eight times as many fish in UK waters as British fishermen do in EU waters, according to UK government data. Which is why Brexit made sense for so many British seaside towns.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 14:14:09 +0100
Euronews' most important misinformation debunks in 2020 | #TheCube
Viral misinformation surged online in 2020. Here are ten of Euronews' best debunks from the last 12 months.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 13:13:48 +0100
Lockdown, social distancing, quarantini: dissecting the 2020 pandemic lingo
From talk of flattening the curve to doomscrolling: how the coronavirus pandemic hijacked our vocabulary.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:54:42 +0100
COVID-19 dominated but this is what else shaped the world in 2020
No-one could escape COVID-19 in 2020, but the pandemic was not the only event to have rocked the world in this year.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:00:19 +0100
Will English remain an official EU language after Brexit?
The European Commission has stated that any decision on this would need the support of a unanimous vote in the European Parliament.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 10:09:12 +0100
Watch again: New Year's Eve celebrations across the world as 2021 brings a new dawn
Happy 2021 from all of us at Euronews. Here's how the turning of the year went down across the globe.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 09:47:51 +0100
France to deploy 100,000 police on New Year's Eve to impose 8pm curfew
Penalties for breaking the rules will be €135 for a first offence and can go up to €3,750 in the event of a repeat offence, the country's Interior Ministry has said.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:52:28 +0100
Coronavirus: California records the second case of the new COVID-19 variant in the US
The first case was confirmed in a man in his 20s in Colorado. He is not believed to have travelled recently.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:33:08 +0100
Nashville bombing: Girlfriend told police Anthony Warner was 'making bombs' a year before blast
Police went to Anthony Warner's house after the accusation but he did not answer the door. On Wednesday, the Nashville police chief admitted: "Hindsight is 20/20."

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:45:08 +0100
Spain's homeless help repopulate rural ghost towns
The homeless, including those left on the streets as a result of the COVID-19 slowdown, are helping to repopulate Spain's rural communities.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:54:02 +0100
Why Romania's new environment minister could be bad news for Europe's biggest brown bear population
In the past, Barna Tanczos has called for the culling of 4,000 bears and warned against turning Romania into "the zoo of Europe".

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:36:26 +0100
Russia announces new tit-for-tat sanctions on UK nationals over Alexei Navalny poisoning
Russia says it has expanded the number of British nationals barred from entering the country in response to "unacceptable and unfounded'' UK sanctions over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:28:18 +0100
Yemen: At least 16 dead and 60 wounded as blast strikes airport in Aden
Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, has been engulfed in civil war since 2014.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:14:27 +0100
Norway landslide: Fresh evacuations after more unstable ground found as hunt for survivors continues
Local police say it has been difficult to search for people on the ground due to a danger of further landslides, so most has been conducted by air.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:14:09 +0100
EU and China set to agree investment deal, but could human rights concerns scupper it being signed?
The European Union and China have tentatively agreed on a business investment deal after seven years of discussions. But concerns about the country's human rights record may stand in the way of it being signed off.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:32:06 +0100
Coronavirus: US reports first case of new COVID-19 variant in Colorado
The man, in his 20s, is currently in isolation in Denver. Authorities say he has no travel history.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:10:23 +0100
COVID vaccine: UK approves AstraZeneca/Oxford University coronavirus jab for use
The UK has ordered 100 million doses from AstraZeneca, which can vaccinate 50 million people.



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