Villa cleared to face Liverpool in FA Cup but Premier League games in doubt
Aston Villa’s FA Cup third round tie at home to Liverpool on Friday will go ahead as planned but Wednesday’s Premier League game against Tottenham...
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EU gives go ahead to extract more shots from each Pfizer vaccine vial
Europe’s medicines regulator gave the go-ahead on Friday for an extra sixth dose to be extracted from Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine vials, increasing the number of...
FIFA to trial concussion substitutes at Club World Cup
FIFA will trial concussion substitutes at next month’s Club World Cup in Qatar, soccer’s world governing body said on Friday. The decision comes after the...
China simulates possible Tokyo atmosphere to train athletes
China’s huge army of Olympic athletes are preparing behind closed doors for this year’s Tokyo Games, simulating the kind of atmosphere they might experience in...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveil underground missile base
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards unveiled an underground missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location on Friday, Iranian state media reported, at a time of heightened...
Israel, Ukraine tighten lockdown measures, Orban slams Brussels
Israel tightened a national lockdown on Friday in a bid to curb a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising...
EU secures nearly half of Pfizer’s 2021 global output of Covid shots
The European Union reached a deal with Pfizer and BioNTech for 300 million additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine, the head of the European Commission...
UK Transport minister: Vaccine might not work against S.African variant
British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Friday there were concerns that COVID-19 vaccines might not work properly against the highly transmissible variant of the...
EU may ask too high a price for financial services trade, BoE warns
Britain should not submit to the European Union’s financial services rules just to get better access to the bloc’s market after Brexit, Bank of England...
