UK PM’s ineptitude led to tens of thousands of deaths, ex-aide says
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s inept handling of the COVID pandemic led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and officials even feared he would ask to be injected ...
EU seeks large AstraZeneca fine for alleged contract breach
A lawyer for the European Union accused AstraZeneca on Wednesday of failing to respect its contract with the 27-nation bloc for the supply of COVID-19 vaccines and asked a Belgian ...
Busy skiing and unprepared: UK PM’s ex-adviser lists Covid failings (Update 3)
Dominic Cummings, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former top adviser, accused government on Wednesday of failing the British public in its early response to the coronavirus pandemic, apologising to the ...
Belarus leader accuses West of using plane incident to try to undermine him
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday accused the West of trying to use the diversion of a Ryanair plane at the weekend to wage hybrid war against him and said ...
UN: EU has its share of blame for Med migrant deaths
The European Union is partly to blame for deaths of migrants taking boats across the Mediterranean due to unanswered distress calls, obstruction of humanitarian rescue efforts, and so-called “pushbacks” to ...
Macron: Sanctions on Russia are not working
French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday in Brussels that the EU “needed to very deeply rework” its relationship with Moscow and that “the sanctions policy” had reached its “limits”, towards ...
Europe weighs risks, benefits of Covid-19 jab for kids
European countries are still deciding if and when to inoculate children against COVID-19 amid questions around safety, supply and the desperate call for more vaccines from hard-hit regions around the ...
EU leaders tussle over emissions target in climate change talks
By Kate Abnett and Sabine Siebold
A meeting of European Union leaders on Tuesday could end without a declaration on how to meet the bloc’s new goal to cut ...
Court action seeks probe of Trump’s Scottish golf course buys
By Jason Szep and Tom Bergin
The Scottish government is facing a new legal challenge over its February rejection of a motion to investigate former US President Donald Trump’s ...
Pope ousts Vatican youth residence caught up in sex abuse trial
Pope Francis has ordered a residence for altar boys who serve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica to move out of the Vatican, after the home became the subject of ...
EU expects more than a billion Covid shots by end of September
The European Union expects to have received more than a billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of September from four drugmakers, a document presented to EU leaders on ...
UK spies violated human rights with bulk intercepts, European rights court rules
Britain’s GCHQ eavesdropping agency breached fundamental human rights by intercepting and harvesting vast amounts of communications, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday.
Revelations by former National ...
EU’s top court orders Poland to halt lignite mining at Turow
By Agnieszka Barteczko and Kate Abnett
Poland must immediately stop mining lignite coal at the Turow mine operated by state-run PGE , the European Union’s top court said last Friday, ...
UK business leaders launch ‘anti-brexit’ plan to restart economy
Forget Brexit, says the Confederation of British Industry, a group which represents 190,000 companies in the UK.
The organisation says “Seize the Moment,” and releases a report intended to establish a ...
Belarus faces new sanctions over jetliner ‘state piracy,’ arrest of journalist
Western powers prepared to pile sanctions on Belarus and cut off its aviation links on Monday, furious after it scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair aircraft and arrest a ...
Italy’s Eurovision rockstar winner did not take drugs – organisers
The lead singer of Italy’s glam rock band Maneskin, which won this year’s Eurovision song contest, has passed a drugs test proving he did not take drugs at ...
Belarus faces sanctions threat over ‘state piracy’ as some airlines avoid its airspace (Update 3)
Several airlines said on Monday they would avoid Belarusian airspace after Belarus scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair jetliner and arrest a dissident journalist in an act denounced by ...
Outrage as Belarus ‘hijacks’ Ryanair plane and arrests opponent, Cypriot on board (updated)
Belarusian authorities scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land on Sunday and then detained an ...
At least eight dead in Italian cable car accident
At least eight people have died and two are seriously injured after a cable car connecting Italy’s Maggiore lake with a mountain close by plunged on Sunday, the national ...
Lebanon’s politicians to face sanctions from EU for negligence
France, with the support of the EU Commission, is preparing sanctions against Lebanese politicians, intended to target their unwillingness to form a government despite the country’s nearly complete collapse.
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Bienvenidos! Tourists invited to rural Spain to save dying villages
Instead of the traditional sand and sea holidays, foreign tourists are invited to enjoy the charms of the Spanish countryside, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday, launching an ambitious ...
France’s Constitutional Council rejects bill permitting minority language schools
France’s Constitutional Council struck down a bill allowing schools to teach the majority of the day in minority languages such as Basque, Breton and Corsican, saying the plan was ...
Syrian man gets life for ‘infidels’ knife attack in Germany
A Syrian man was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for murdering a tourist and seriously injuring another in an Islamist-motivated knife attack in the eastern German city of ...
Greek firefighters battle forest blaze near Athens
Greek firefighters battled for a third day on Friday a wind-driven blaze that burned through pine forests about 60 km (37 miles) west of the capital Athens and forced hundreds of people ...