Former French president Sarkozy convicted of corruption, handed jail sentence
France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption on Monday and sentenced to three years in prison, a stunning fall from grace for...
Europe
EU to propose digital vaccination passport in March, von der Leyen says
The European Commission will present a proposal in March on creating an EU-wide digital COVID-19 vaccination passport that may allow Europeans to travel more freely...
Prince Harry worried history would repeat itself
Prince Harry, who shocked Britain last year when he and his wife Meghan stepped back from royal duties, told U.S. interviewer Oprah Winfrey that he had...
UK’s Sunak says public finances won’t be fixed overnight
British finance minister Rishi Sunak said he would not try to fix the public finances overnight, days before he announces a budget plan that is...
Greece extends lockdown to more areas to stem spread of pandemic
Greece extended lockdown restrictions on Friday to more areas of the country as the COVID-19 pandemic showed no signs of waning exactly one year after...
Runaway schoolgirl who joined IS cannot return to Britain
A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State should not be allowed to return to Britain to challenge the government taking...
Dutch appeals court says coronavirus curfew was right move
A Dutch appeals court said on Friday the government had been right to impose a night curfew in the fight against the coronavirus, overturning a...
EU leaders seek ways to speed up vaccine rollout in race against variants
European Union leaders met on Thursday to find ways to speed up the production and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in a race against the emergence...
WHO: Debilitating ‘long-Covid’ may have severe impacts
Thousands of COVID-19 patients continue to suffer serious, debilitating and lingering symptoms many months after their initial bout of infection, with major social, health and...
Suspected bombmakers accused of complicity in Malta journalist’s murder
Two men suspected of supplying the bomb that killed Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia faced formal charges in a late-night court appearance under heavy...
