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Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:50:34 +0100
Gunmen massacre police officers in ambush in central Mexico
A huge search was underway for those responsible for killing eight state police officers and five prosecution investigators in the rural area southwest of Mexico City.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 07:45:20 +0100
China: Trial of Canadian businessman Michael Spavor ends without verdict
Two Canadians have been held for more than two years in apparent retaliation for Canada's arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 07:14:18 +0100
US and China clash amid blunt exchanges in first face-to-face meeting under President Biden
The meetings in Alaska are a new test in increasingly troubled relations between the two countries, at odds over human rights, Chinese assertiveness and the coronavirus pandemic.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:22:05 +0100
Biden plans to send four million AstraZeneca COVID jabs to Mexico, Canada
The US will send four million AstraZeneca doses to Mexico and Canada, the White House said on Thursday.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:17:40 +0100
Most misinformation spread online is accidental, study finds
Half of the misinformation that spreads online is shared because users are not paying attention, a study has found.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:00:55 +0100
Will travel be possible this summer with the EU's Digital Green Certificate?
"No, I do not think that Europe is losing the battle of vaccines. I think there is a lot of noise around the European vaccination programme". - Margaritis Schinas, Vice President of the EU Commission, tells all about the Digital Green Certificate, t...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:18:53 +0100
'I want to live not just survive': Kosovo and its chronic brain drain problem
Kosovo's new government has promised to end the exodus of young Kosovo Albanians abroad. It may struggle to persuade them to stay at home.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:15:07 +0100
One year on, Italy remembers coronavirus victims
Footage of an army convoy snaking its way through Bergamo's roads on March 18th, 2020 remains one of the most heart-wrenching and iconic images of the pandemic

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:57:53 +0100
Paris and more than a dozen French areas to lock down for a month, says PM Jean Castex
Sixteen regions in France including the capital will lock down from Friday for a month amid rising COVID-19 cases and hospital saturation.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:30:55 +0100
Man in cow mask, fined under burqa ban law, has conviction quashed
Austria's Constitutional Court has overturned the sentence of an animal rights activist who was fined under a law banning full-face veils while wearing a cow mask.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:30:42 +0100
Bulgaria imposes 10-day lockdown to tackle rising COVID-19 cases
The new restrictions will be the last test for the centre-right government of Boyko Borissov, who hopes to win a fourth term in the parliamentary elections on April 4.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:11:47 +0100
Halting AstraZeneca vaccine ‘will lead to deaths’ says drug safety expert
"It's not always the best policy to withdraw the vaccine, especially when you have a disease that's killing people," an expert in drug safety tells Euronews.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:42:33 +0100
WHO advises against vaccine passports as EU debates 'green pass'
EU leaders will discuss the divisive issue at a summit next week.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:11:00 +0100
Vaccine passports: Iceland allows in all travellers with jab certificates
As the EU puts together its own plans for a vaccine passport, its European neighbour Iceland has pressed ahead with its own scheme.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:39:49 +0100
Armenia’s PM calls early elections in a bid to defuse country’s political crisis
BREAKING: Armenia’s PM calls early elections in a bid to defuse the country’s political crisis

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:18:58 +0100
After years of delay, renovation works for the iconic Chain Bridge in Budapest gets underway
After years of delay, renovation works for the iconic Budapest bridge connecting the Buda and Pest parts of the Hungarian capital, have finally started.The project is expected to cost around 51 million euros and to cause some disruption to the capita...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:02:03 +0100
Child abuse in football: Report finds 'significant institutional failings' in the FA
"There was often a feeling that without ‘concrete evidence’ or a specific allegation from a child nothing could, or should, be done", said the chief investigator.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:45:12 +0100
Thousand-year-old Spanish Holm Oak wins 'European Tree of the Year' title
Residents of a small village in North-East Spain have been popping the Cava corks! Their huge Oak tree has just been named 'European Tree of the Year'.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:53:43 +0100
How ISIS and coalition airstrikes combined to terrorise Raqqa
Amid Syria’s civil war, Raqqa became known the world over for being the stage of some of the most horrific episodes of violence perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:21:56 +0100
Vaccinating children is key for herd immunity, say experts. How far away is such a jab?
Several COVID-19 vaccines are currently being tested in teenagers and trials are starting in younger children as well.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 23:21:46 +0100
Man charged with killing 8 people at Georgia massage parlours
A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlours in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community that’s increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:49:25 +0100
Joe Biden reaffirms commitment to the Good Friday Agreement on St. Patrick's Day
In a virtual meeting with Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin, Biden said they had a robust agenda to tackle together including the COVID-19 pandemic and Ireland's leadership on the UN Security Council.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:20:29 +0100
Tanzania's President John Magufuli dies aged 61
President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:08:01 +0100
Mark Rutte's party wins most seats in Dutch general election, preliminary results suggest
The caretaker prime minister's centre-right party will win the most seats in the Dutch general election, according to preliminary results.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:04:43 +0100
Dutch election: Rule change to accept wrongly sealed mail-in ballots
Elderly citizens were asked to vote by post for the first time in the elections, which led to some confusion.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:45:20 +0100
Dutch election: Far-right accounts are trying to spread claims of voter fraud like Donald Trump
Unfounded claims of voter fraud have published online by far-right accounts in the Netherlands in the lead-up to the elections.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:22:12 +0100
St Patrick's Day: Sobering milestone as Irish pubs closed for a second consecutive March 17
As Irish pubs reach a year of closures, English pubs say their beer gardens are already fully booked ahead of April's easing of restrictions.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:10:59 +0100
Meet the anti-racist campaigner taking on the Dutch right in this week's election
The Netherlands has a reputation as a liberal country. The reality is quite different.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:29:05 +0100
Sputnik V: Has Russia won the battle in global vaccine diplomacy?
As the EU has struggled to make available European-manufactured vaccines, Russia has already sent its Sputnik V to Hungary and Slovakia and offered to supply 50 million more doses to Europe.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:24:10 +0100
What are the real reasons behind France's slow vaccine rollout?
By March 14, France had vaccinated 10.85 people per 100 inhabitants, compared to 32.01 in the United States and 38.39 in the United Kingdom, according to Our World in Data.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:34:59 +0100
Tinder to offer pre-date background checks to its users
The online dating platform will roll its new feature out later this year in the US, aiming to keep users safer as they date.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:19:55 +0100
Belarus protests: Convictions tallied at 400, but hundreds more are still in jail
Belarusian prosecutors say that at least 400 people have been convicted for participating in opposition demonstrations against President Lukashenko. But what about all the others that were arrested?

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:44:06 +0100
Europe's top court rules French way of catching songbirds is illegal
The technique uses glue-covered traps to catch the birds and kills tens of thousands every year

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:25:52 +0100
COVID-19 vaccine rollout: Which country in Europe is leading the race?
It's far more complex than the UK just leading the way.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:22:05 +0100
Myanmar has endured more than a month of nightly internet shutdowns
Anti-coup demonstrations in Myanmar have been complicated by nightly internet blackouts across the country.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:48:56 +0100
Dutch election: Is online sexism holding women back from becoming MPs?
A recent study found 10% of all tweets at women on Dutch electoral lists contained hateful comments or sexist threats.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:21:22 +0100
Russia recalls Washington ambassador after Biden says Putin is a 'killer'
Biden said the Russian president would 'pay a price' for meddling in US elections.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:04:10 +0100
French government auctions off €28 million worth of confiscated Bitcoin
Bitcoin crossed the $60,000 (€50 195) mark for the first time in its history on Saturday.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:47:51 +0100
Hungary hit by record number of daily COVID-19 deaths as cases surge
Health officials announced 195 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, breaking the previous peak of 193 in early December.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:18:03 +0100
European Commission outlines plans for Green Pass for freedom of travel within bloc
What does the pass allow you to do? What does it tell border control about you? And why is 'reciprocity' the new buzzword? Find out here. #BrusselsBureau

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:14:07 +0100
Russia slams UK’s decision to boost its nuclear arsenal
Russia said the UK’s decision to raise the ceiling on the number of nuclear weapons it has “harms global stability and strategic security”.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:54:06 +0100
From refuge in Belgium, a painter depicts Syria’s war through art
Amid Syria's civil war Ahmad Sheer was left with a choice he never wanted to have to make: to flee his country, or join in the fighting

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:40:10 +0100
Iceland volcano: The country is on high alert for an eruption after thousands of earthquakes
Icelanders have struggled through weeks of disrupted sleep as thousands of earthquakes have rattled the south-west of the island nation. Scientists predict the unprecedented seismic activity could result in a substantial volcanic eruption.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 09:23:15 +0100
Berlin theatre manager quits amid bullying and sexual harassment accusations
Employees have “reported incidents of abuse of power, bullying, verbal violence and sexual harassment.”

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 09:01:49 +0100
Man arrested after eight people killed in shootings at Atlanta spas
Authorities said many of the victims of the shootings at three massage parlours are women of Asian descent.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:15:11 +0100
Police seize millions in counterfeit money made at Bulgaria university
The prosecutor’s office said the amount of counterfeit money taken in was $4 million and €3.6 million.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:01:11 +0100
Putin approved influence operations to help Trump against Biden in US election - intelligence report
The report, released Tuesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, represents the most detailed assessment of the array of foreign threats to the 2020 election.

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:18:49 +0100
Niger: Gunmen kill at least 58 in attack on market sellers
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Monday's massacres, though extremists belonging to the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara group are known to be active in the region.

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:59:11 +0100
AstraZeneca jab pause 'will definitely increase vaccine hesitancy'
"We have already seen a problem before now with vaccine hesitancy, but it [the halt] will definitely increase that," Dr William Budd told Euronews.

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:13:40 +0100
French MPs approve law setting age of sexual consent
Any sexual act committed on children under the age of 15 by an adult will be considered rape. The bill still needs to be approved by senators.



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