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Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:47:22 +0100
Online make-up tutorials help boost cancer patients' self-esteem during the pandemic
With Covid-19 limiting opportunities for face-to-face support, make-up artist Laura Hunt is giving online make-up tutorials to help cancer patients boost their self-esteem.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:41:50 +0100
Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader's top ally Lyubov Sobol faces Investigative Committee
Lyubov Sobol, Navalny's brother Oleg, and several other allies under house arrest, without access to the internet, for two months as part of a criminal investigation into the alleged breach of coronavirus restrictions.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:03:19 +0100
US and Russia extend nuclear weapons pact just before expiration
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START Treaty), imposes limits on Russian and US intercontinental missiles and bombers, but does not cover new types of weapons.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:42:23 +0100
Head of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games says he won't resign over sexism row
Yoshiro Mori was reported to have said women talk too much when questioned about the lack of women on the board of the Olympic Games, prompting calls for his resignation.

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 07:12:22 +0100
Myanmar blocks Facebook amid growing resistance to coup
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said those outside Myanmar should make sure Monday's coup fails.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 23:42:29 +0100
Boris Johnson says he would consider triggering Brexit safeguard clause
The British prime minister said the EU had cast doubt on the Good Friday Agreement after considering invoking Article 16 of the Brexit deal.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:52:07 +0100
Democrats plan vote on ousting Marjorie Taylor Greene from panels
The US House will vote on whether to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees over the Republican's embrace of conspiracy theories and violent racist views.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:43:05 +0100
Golden Globes: Three women nominated for directing as Netflix tops awards
Three women, Emerald Fennell, Chloe Zhao and Regina King, were nominated for best director of a motion picture. Only one woman has previously won the award.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 21:49:59 +0100
COVAX to distribute more than 330 milllion COVID vaccines through June
Over 10 of the 145 countries that will receive vaccines through the global initiative are in Europe.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:06:24 +0100
Germans call for crackdown on COVID-19 vaccine queue-jumpers
It emerged that at some clinics in the country managers were vaccinated ahead of doctors and frontline medical staff.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:52:06 +0100
Rapper arrested in Austria and accused of publishing neo-Nazi songs
One of the suspect's songs was used as a soundtrack by the perpetrator in the terror attack in Halle, Germany, in October 2019, reported AFP news agency.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:26:47 +0100
Earth-moving research charts one billion years of tectonic plate movement
Tectonic plates are irregular-shaped slabs of solid rock which can vary massively in size from a few hundred to thousands of kilometers across

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:59:39 +0100
Criminals selling fake COVID-19 test certificates at Europe's major airports and stations
"Given the widespread technological means available, in the form of high-quality printers and different software, fraudsters are able to produce high-quality counterfeit, forged or fake documents," Europol warned.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:59:35 +0100
Homelessness and COVID: High infection rates and social marginalisation haunts Paris' homeless
Christophe Robert from the Abbé Pierre Foundation says “The crisis is like a ticking time bomb for all those that see their resources diminish and risk no longer being able to pay their rent.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:43:55 +0100
Foreign medical personnel sent to Portuguese hospitals as nation grapples with third wave
One Portuguese hospital has seen the same amount of patients in January as it did during the whole of last year as the third wave of the pandemic sweeps across the country.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:26:25 +0100
Mario Draghi: Ex-European Central Bank chief accepts president's mandate to form next government
"Winning the pandemic, finishing the vaccination campaign, giving answers to every day's problems of the citizens, relaunching the country are the challenges we face," Draghi said.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:38:53 +0100
COVID vaccine: One dose of AstraZeneca jab cuts transmission by two thirds, says latest analysis
Primary analysis of phase III trials also showed that the vaccine efficacy is stronger when the period between the two doses is lengthened to 12 weeks.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:35:26 +0100
Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi charged with trade violation and remanded in custody
Detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi charged with trade violation and remanded in custody

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 07:22:51 +0100
UN Security Council takes no action on Myanmar coup
The Myanmar ambassador who is currently in Europe strongly condemned the military’s takeover of the government.

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:50:04 +0100
Alexei Navalny: Hundreds detained at protests after Putin critic given jail term
As many as 918 people were detained, according to the OVD-Info group that monitors arrests.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 22:40:50 +0100
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, to step down as company's chief executive
Jeff Bezos will be replaced later this year by Andy Jassy, who runs Amazon's cloud business.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 21:59:32 +0100
Could 'competent and credible' Mario Draghi be the right man for Italy?
Cecilia Sottilotta is an Assistant Professor of International Relations and Global Politics at the American University of Rome. She told Euronews that "Draghi really embodies every single quality that no politician currently has in Italy - he is comp...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:56:04 +0100
Goats on Zoom: English farm finds new income by livening up video conferences
Video meetings? Meh. One English farm takes Zoombombing to a new level: hiring out goats to make surprise appearances on conference calls.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:51:31 +0100
'There's no justice in a dictatorship': How a political crisis exposed Belarus' rule of law problem
“Under a dictatorship, there cannot be independent judges and courts," said disbarred lawyer Alexander Pylchenko. "Our country is not an exception."

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:42:29 +0100
Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu cited by Twitter for 'hateful' LGBT comments
Twitter said the post violated rules about hateful conduct but decided to keep it on the platform for public interest.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:24:58 +0100
Britain applauds WWII veteran and NHS fundraising hero Sir Tom Moore
The 100-year-old veteran won legions of fans last year after he raised millions of euros for Britain's healthcare system by doing laps of his garden.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:29:26 +0100
EU condemns 'threats of violence' as Northern Ireland-GB port checks suspended
EU staff working in Northern Ireland were told not to go to work on Tuesday after threats forced authorities to halt post-Brexit checks on goods.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:20:42 +0100
Italy's president set to hear possible solutions for country's political crisis
Last week the country's prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, resigned after ex-PM Matteo Renzi withdrew his party from the governing coalition.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 13:39:43 +0100
COVID-19 vaccine: Russia's Sputnik V jab has efficacy of 91.6% against coronavirus, say experts
BREAKING: Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has an efficacy of 91.6% against COVID-19, according to a study published in The Lancet.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 13:25:46 +0100
Serbia unhappy after Kosovo and Israel establish diplomatic ties
"We have invested serious efforts in our relations with Israel in recent years and we are not happy," said Serbia's foreign minister.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 12:53:00 +0100
Bulgaria accused of €6 million police vehicle fraud involving EU cash
Interior ministry officials bought older, secondhand SUVs for the police, instead of new vehicles, violating the terms of an EU cash grant, says OLAF, the bloc's anti-fraud agency.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 12:49:12 +0100
Serbia's PM says vaccine success down to prioritising healthcare over politics
The latest data shows that 6.4 doses have been administered per 100 people in the Balkan state. That's higher than any EU state.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:13:54 +0100
Repatriation of foreign children in Syrian camps drop sharply due to COVID-19
According to Save the Children, an estimated 200 foreign children were repatriated in 2020 from camps in north-east Syria, down from 685 in 2019.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:58:17 +0100
Could vouchers for millions of European flight cancellations now be cash refunds?
With travel severely restricted, millions of European consumers are still waiting for refunds from their airlines. Many accepted a vouchers after their flights were cancelled, but with holidays off the agenda for now - could could those travellers be...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:57:24 +0100
EU leaders condemn Russia's jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny
Russia’s penitentiary service alleged that Navalny violated the probation conditions of his suspended sentence from a 2014 money-laundering conviction that he has rejected as politically motivated.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:22:09 +0100
US billionaire to pay for three people to go into space in first all-civilian flight later this year
One of the spots on the SpaceX's multi-day flight that will orbit Earth will be awarded via a lottery system.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 07:57:22 +0100
Australia: an estimated 30 homes destroyed in out-of-control wildfire
People in a 25-kilometre stretch west from Wooroloo to the Walyunga National Park northeast of Perth were told Tuesday it had become too dangerous to leave their homes.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 07:33:45 +0100
Bernie Sanders mittens and memes help raise €1.5 million for charity
And internet gold isn't the only thing to come out of Sen Bernie Sanders' memorable inauguration appearance - $1.8 million (€1.5 million) was raised for charitable organisations in his home state of Vermont.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 06:51:43 +0100
We may need COVID vaccines for 'many years to come', says German Chancellor Merkel
Merkel said the situation with COVID-19 is "similar to the flu vaccine, where you re-vaccinate against the new mutation of the virus every time".

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 06:33:33 +0100
Myanmar coup: US threatens sanctions over Aung San Suu Kyi detention
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been a US democracy promotion project for decades.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:55:53 +0100
What can be done about the military coup in Myanmar?
Global condemnation has followed a military coup in Myanmar, in which senior officials from the ruling party, including de facto president Aung San Suu Kyi, were arrested. But what more can be done?

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:41:09 +0100
Restaurants and museums reopen in Italy as country eases restrictions
Restaurants and museums reopen in Italy as country eases restrictions.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:53:38 +0100
How did European leaders react to Myanmar's military coup?
The military said the coup was the result of the government’s failure to act on claims of voter fraud in November’s parliamentary election.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:38:20 +0100
France says its ski lifts will remain closed for at least another month
BREAKING: France says its ski lifts will remain closed for at least another month

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:16:35 +0100
Man arrested in Toulon after severed head found in cardboard box
The man was arrested in Toulon after a severed head was found in a cardboard box that had been thrown out of a window of a flat.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:45:35 +0100
Belgian police confirm knife-related 'incident' Monday afternoon on Brussels metro
Police so far have not confirmed to Euronews how many injuries there are from the incident but Belgian media are reporting several.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:37:28 +0100
Donald Trump: Estonian MEP Jaak Madison nominates ex-US president for Nobel Peace Prize
Jaak Madison, from the right-wing EKRE party, said he had nominated the former US President just two hours before the deadline.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:54:22 +0100
France opens talks in bid to regain public trust in police
In November video of Paris police appearing to beat and abuse a black music producer inside his studio shocked the country.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:20:00 +0100
COVID-19 vaccines: 90% of coronavirus jabs have been given in richer countries, says WHO
North America and Europe have a higher percentage of population vaccinated against coronavirus than the rest of the world so far.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:00:46 +0100
Montenegro wants to join the EU - but will Brussels have it?
Montenegro is united in its desire to join the EU. On everything else, it is more divided than ever.



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