De Bruyne: Records remain in the past as Belgium take on Wales
Kevin De Bruyne insists Wales’ proud record against Belgium belongs to the past and has no bearing on their opening 2022 World Cup qualifier.
De Bruyne believes Belgium are a far ...
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TUI to shut 48 more shops in UK as travel crisis deepens
Holiday company TUI said it would shut 48 retail stores across Britain, adding to the 166 it has already closed there during the pandemic.
The shop closures will mean additional cost savings ...
Capitalism and greed gave Britain its vaccine success, PM Johnson says
Capitalism and greed gave Britain its success in vaccinating its population, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told lawmakers in a closed meeting, praising pharmaceutical companies for developing a shot in record ...
Covid-19 can be detected by sound with Neosperience’s new process
Italy’s Neosperience has developed a way to detect Covid-19 infections by analysing a person’s speech or cough, the software company announced on Tuesday.
Neosperience President Dario Melpignano said ...
Netanyahu’s future unclear as exit polls forecast stalemate in Israel’s election
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prospects for retaining power were uncertain on Wednesday after exit polls in Israel‘s fourth national election in two years projected yet another stalemate.
With ...
Net-zero emissions targets adopted by one-fifth of world’s largest companies
One in five of the world’s 2,000 largest publicly listed companies have now committed to a “net-zero” emissions target to help tackle climate change, researchers said on Tuesday.
The companies, ...
Store workers, gun rights supporter and son of refugees among Colorado victims
By Alexandra Ulmer and Brad Brooks
For Teri Leiker, 51, the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, was a happy place. She worked there for some 30 years and was dating ...
Accused ‘Proud Boy’ leaders plead not guilty to charges from attack on U.S. Capitol
By Mark Hosenball
Two accused leaders of the far-right Proud Boys militia group on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to multiple criminal charges related to their alleged role in the deadly ...
EU to extend vaccine export curbs to cover Britain, backloading -source
By Francesco Guarascio
The European Commission will on Wednesday extend EU powers to potentially block COVID-19 vaccine exports to Britain and other areas with much higher vaccination rates, and to ...
EU-China deal grinds into reverse after tit-for-tat sanctions
Fewer than three months after it was agreed, progress to pass an EU-China deal giving European companies better access to Chinese markets has sharply reversed after tit-for-tat sanctions.
China blacklisted ...
There’s light-speed travel in Star Wars and Star Trek. Is it possible?
By Will Dunham
Spaceships zipping at the speed of light or faster are a staple of science fiction. Think of the Millennium Falcon in the Star Wars movies and the ...
German-Turks to give Merkel’s party a nudge at the ballot box
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives are likely to get a boost from an unexpected quarter at the general election in September: the German-Turkish community.
A young generation of German-Turks has ...
Norway police question PM over birthday party Covid breach
Norwegian police said on Tuesday they have begun questioning Prime Minister Erna Solberg over a birthday party she held last month, which could lead to a fine of 10,000 crowns ($1,165) for ...
EU should deepen trade with Turkey but ready sanctions, internal report says
The European Union should start negotiations on deeper trade ties with Turkey, an EU candidate, but should be ready to impose economic sanctions if Ankara moves against the bloc’s ...
Turkish opposition slams Erdogan after cenbank governor ousted
Opposition parties say Turkey is paying a steep price for President Tayyip Erdogan’s wayward economic policies after his shock firing of the central bank governor sent Turkish financial markets ...
US warns Germany: Nord Stream 2 goes against the interests of the US and the EU
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday the Nord Stream 2 pipeline being built from Russia to Germany ran counter to the European Union’s own interests and ...
AstraZeneca’s vaccine trial data questioned by US authorities
AstraZeneca may have used “outdated information” in the results of a large-scale COVID-19 vaccine trial, a U.S. health agency said on Tuesday, casting fresh doubt on the shot, its ...
English seeking sunshine abroad face hefty new fines
Travellers from England will face 5,000 pound ($6,900) fines in new legislation designed to deter non-essential trips and barricade the nation against imported COVID-19 infections.
The news was a disappointment to millions ...
Thousands evacuated in Australia’s worst floods in nearly half a century
Australian authorities issued fresh flood warnings and evacuation orders on Tuesday as torrential rains again pummelled several parts of the country, sweeping away homes, roads and livestock in the worst ...
Israelis vote, Netanyahu hopes for another term after COVID vaccine rollout success
Israelis began voting on Tuesday in a fourth election in two years, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hoping a rapid COVID-19 vaccine rollout will win him another term. With coronavirus ...
Microsoft in talks to acquire Discord for more than $10 billion
Microsoft Corp is in talks to buy messaging platform Discord Inc for more than $10 billion, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Discord is a VoIP, instant messaging ...
‘Revolutionary’ nasal spray gives hope in fight against Covid-19
Israel and New Zealand have given interim approval for the sale of biotech firm SaNOtize Research and Development’s Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray (NONS) which could help prevent transmission of ...
UK inflation forecast to jump to 2.5%
UK inflation is forecast to jump to 2.5 per cent this year, as energy prices and consumer spending surge.
Consumer price inflation, the measure targeted by the BoE, was just 0.7 per ...
ECB to keep borrowing costs low in difficult period
Europe is facing a difficult second quarter as coronavirus infections rise and governments reimpose lockdown measures, but the European Central Bank will do its part to keep borrowing costs ultra ...