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Sat, 13 Mar 2021 09:39:11 +0100
Are rising cases in vaccination-leading Serbia a warning to the UK?
Serbia has been highlighted as a success story for its vaccination programme, but rising coronavirus cases have health experts worried.

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 09:05:24 +0100
Sarah Everard: Serving Met Police officer charged with kidnap and murder
Everard's disappearance sparked a public debate about women's safety.

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 09:01:33 +0100
Is there any substance behind the AstraZeneca vaccine doubts?
Despite being shown to prevent against severe disease, AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine has attracted negative publicity. Here's a closer look.

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 09:00:53 +0100
How Scots and Catalans are looking to each other to ease their independence woes
2021 is set to be a pivotal year in the independence movements in Scotland and Catalonia. But are there lessons each movement can learn from the other to avoid the pitfalls that threaten to derail their cause?

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:33:10 +0100
Minneapolis to pay George Floyd's family $27m
The civil lawsuit settlement comes as jurors are being selected for the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white police officer who held Floyd down with a knee to the neck for nearly nine minutes.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:06:33 +0100
Viral Twitter photo of empty Geneva hospital corridor is 'misinformation'
A viral photo on Twitter of an empty hospital corridor in Geneva is "misinformation", Swiss authorities have said.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:43:15 +0100
Mark Hauptmann: Third conservative politician in Germany resigns over corruption allegations
A third conservative politician from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's bloc has resigned over corruption allegations.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:39:56 +0100
Netflix tests a crackdown on users sharing account passwords
The popular streaming service has been asking some users of the popular streaming site to verify their account via email or text, or to “verify later."

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:29:18 +0100
Multiple Italian regions to lockdown amid rising COVID cases
Italy will move several regions to "red zones" with shops and restaurants closed amid rising coronavirus cases.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:30:51 +0100
Mary Robinson gives her insight on Europe's biggest challenges
"COVID has exacerbated all of the inequalities" - Mary Robinson, chair of the Elders, discusses the pressing issues affecting Europe today.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:45:22 +0100
Plans to build an airport in Albania threatens migrating bird flyways
The mayor of Vlora in Albania sees his region as the "future queen of the Mediterranean" and he's happy for infrastructural development to increase tourism. But plans to build an airport in an environmentally protected area are leaving bird experts h...

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:31:16 +0100
More twins born than ever before amid rise in fertility treatments
Rates of twin births have more than doubled in Europe over the past 30 years and soared by 71 per cent in North America, according to research by the University of Oxford.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:25:52 +0100
COVID-19 vaccine rollout: How do countries in Europe compare?
It's far more complex than the UK just leading the way.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:14:35 +0100
Nigeria: Gunmen abduct 30 students from school as military rescue majority
The latest abduction took place late Thursday night at the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, in the Igabi local government area of Kaduna state, police said.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:37:27 +0100
Match us and publish vaccine contracts, Hungary tells EU
Hungary became the first EU country to order the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. Now it's published its contract with Russia for the jabs.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:12:22 +0100
Sarah Everard: Body of missing woman found in woodland near London, police confirm
The body of Sarah Everard, who went missing in London on March 3, has been found, police confirm.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:13:47 +0100
Sputnik V: Slovakia's health minister quits over deal to buy COVID-19 vaccines from Russia
He resigned to avoid Slovakia's ruling coalition crumbling apart.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:29:04 +0100
Scientists race to find a 'universal vaccine' effective against all COVID-19 variants
Delphine Guyon-Gellin is the manager of the 'universal vaccine' project at Osivax based in Lyon. She says, "We are targeting a part inside the virus, which is not accessible for the antibodies, so we train the immune system to develop another type of...

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:13:59 +0100
Germany 'super election year' starts with state and regional ballots on Sunday
On Sunday two German states with a combined population of over 15 million people will elect new regional governments. It's the start of the so-called 'super election year' culminating with federal elections in September.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:08:17 +0100
Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi charged with corruption to the tune of $600,000
Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested during the February 1 coup. This is the fifth offence she has been charged with since then.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:31:45 +0100
UK sees record fall in trade with EU after end of Brexit transition period
Figures from the UK’s Office for National Statistics show exports to the EU fell £5.6 billion and imports fell £6.6 billion in the first month after the end of the Brexit transition period.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 08:35:55 +0100
Thailand joins countries in delaying use of AstraZeneca vaccine
A number of European countries have already suspended the vaccine pending an investigation into reports of blood clots in some people.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 07:27:40 +0100
Bangladesh's first transgender news anchor hired by satellite TV station
Tashnuva Anan Shishir made her debut on International Women's Day

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 06:57:18 +0100
Japan tightens border controls over rise in new COVID-19 variant cases
Japan has confirmed 345 cases of the more contagious new variants.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 06:18:23 +0100
COVID-19 sparks 'crisis of meaning' for struggling European students
'The hardest part, for me especially, is finding a reason to wake up in the morning.'

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:22:22 +0100
Post-Brexit trade: UK delays EU import checks by several months over disruption fears
UK industry groups, who had long warned of disruption from post-Brexit red tape, have welcomed the move.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:07:39 +0100
Millions of daffodils left unpicked in England because of post-Brexit migrant worker rules
Tens of millions of daffodils in Britain are being left unpicked this year because flower farmers have been locked out of a scheme to allow European migrants to work on British farms.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:46:20 +0100
New murder charge for officer on trial for George Floyd’s death
The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis led to worldwide protests over police brutality and racial injustice.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:29:47 +0100
Own wurst enemy: Burglar's bite of a sausage helps police trace him nine years later
German police say they have solved a nine-year-old burglary using DNA on a half-eaten piece of sausage.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:04:34 +0100
One year on, a look back at how COVID-19 upended life in Europe
The lockdown scenes in Wuhan initially seemed completely alien. But the virus raced across the globe, and soon the streets of Europe also became eerily quiet.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:45:21 +0100
Poland and Hungary file complaint over EU’s rule of law requirements
The two countries are challenging a mechanism that links EU funding with respect for the rule of law.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:02:56 +0100
Rich countries must stop ‘vaccine apartheid’ | View
"We need courageous leadership that suspends rules that are barriers to expanding life-saving vaccine access," write Aruna Kashyap and Margaret Wurth, both from Human Rights Watch

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:17:00 +0100
COVID-19 has weakened the case for the European Union, Euronews survey reveals
The prevailing view in Italy, Germany, France and the UK is that COVID-19 has weakened the case for the EU, according to a Euronews survey.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:39:06 +0100
France's Europe Minister was 'pressured' not to visit Poland's 'LGBT-free' zones
But Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk has denied the allegations and says the minister's comments are "clearly not true".

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:29:37 +0100
Johnson&Johnson single dose COVID-19 vaccine authorised by EU regulator
The European Medicines Agency recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation for the single dose Johnson&Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:08:50 +0100
Two teenagers probed for murder after girl, 14, drowned near Paris
Two French teenagers are being investigated for murder after a 14-year-old schoolgirl was found drowned in the River Seine near Paris.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:56:18 +0100
'We're very much not a racist family,' says Prince William after Meghan interview
Prince William is the first royal to directly address the explosive interview that Harry and Meghan gave to Oprah Winfrey.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:55:36 +0100
Denmark, Iceland and Norway suspend AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccinations after blood clot reports
"Right now we need all the vaccines we can get. Therefore, putting one of the vaccines on pause is not an easy decision," said Søren Brostrøm, Director General of the Danish Health Authority.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:04:46 +0100
'Stop fighting each other' on vaccines, WHO official tells world leaders in Euronews interview
Euronews spoke to WHO's Special Envoy on COVID-19 to look back at the key lessons the world has learned in this pandemic year and the road still ahead to beat the virus.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 10:27:36 +0100
China endorses plan to tighten control of Hong Kong elections
The Communist Party put forward plans which would reduce democratic representation in Hong Kong elections, following pro-democracy demonstrations in the region.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:43:34 +0100
Man who lost daughter in Japan tsunami to run in Olympic torch relay
Fukushima prefecture, the area at the heart of the 2011 catastrophe, will be the starting point of this month's Olympic torch relay.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 07:30:52 +0100
It's a year since COVID was declared a pandemic. Did WHO act too late?
It's been exactly a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. By then, the virus was already confirmed in 114 countries.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 06:34:06 +0100
Fukushima: Japan marks 10th disaster anniversary while still recovering
More than 18,000 people died in the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that struck Japan's northeastern coast on March 11, 2011.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 22:24:17 +0100
US Congress approves Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill
The White House described it as a "historic legislative package that will turn the page on this pandemic, deliver direct relief to Americans, and jumpstart our economy."

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:18:28 +0100
Former press officer for Angela Merkel convicted of spying for Egypt
Federal prosecutors said he had begun spying in July 2010 on instructions from the Egyptian embassy in Berlin.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:20:41 +0100
Puigdemont and other Catalan leaders have lost their immunity from prosecution. What happens next?
The decision by MEPs will likely extend the three-and-a-half-year legal saga on the Catalan separatists' fate by months, if not years, as many avenues for appeal remain open.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:20:11 +0100
Belarus: EU rejects claim that European funds financed Lukashenko's property 'goldmine'
A new documentary film alleges that EU funds contributed to financing Lukashenko's regime and his lavish lifestyle. The bloc has rejected the accusations as "completely unfounded and baseless."

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:01:11 +0100
Madrid set for early elections after regional government collapses
Spain's political landscape has been shaken after the regional government in Madrid split and called an early election.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:10:08 +0100
Sarah Everard: UK police discover 'human remains' in woodland
Sarah Everard, 33, vanished while walking home from a friend's apartment in London on March 3.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:21:07 +0100
Police hunt sparked after grandfather picks up wrong boy from nursery in Poland
The 80-year-old man only realised he had not collected his grandson when the police arrived at his house.



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