Over four years post U.K.’s vote to break from the bloc, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen struck a historic deal Thursday on new Brexit trading arrangements, narrowly avoiding a disastrous no-deal, after tensions soared earlier […]
UK officials have since the launch of their nation-wide vaccinations campaign Tuesday reported two cases of anaphylaxis and one report of a possible allergic reaction post the Pfizer BioNTech jab. The adverse effects stemming from the overreaction of the body’s […]
Britain on Tuesday hailed a turning point in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, as it begins the biggest vaccination programme in the country’s history with a new Covid-19 jab. The first patients in line on what has been dubbed […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson went into isolation after a contact tested positive for the coronavirus, as a stay-at-home advisory came into effect for the United States’ third-biggest city on Monday. Global infections have soared past 54 million with more […]
Tristan da Cunha, aptly named the ‘most remote inhabited island on Earth’ with all of 245 permanent residents, has now banned fishing and other “extractive activities” in its surrounding waters, on a firm path to safeguard its marine wildlife. The […]
Four migrants, two children among them, died Tuesday after the boat in which they had set out from France to try and reach Britain capsized in the English Channel, French officials said. One man drowned when the boat sank, while […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell people on Tuesday to work from home and will impose new curbs on pubs, bars and restaurants in a bid to tackle the swiftly accelerating second wave of the coronavirus outbreak. In an […]
British lawmakers on Monday backed a new bill that would override parts of the Brexit treaty struck with the European Union last year, despite outrage in Brussels and alarm at home over such an overt breach of international law. MPs […]