The entirety of France will be placed under a 6pm-6am curfew for at least 15 days from Saturday in a bid to ease the pressure of Covid-19 on the country’s health system, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on...
Greece wants vaccinated travelers to cross EU borders freely
Greece has a ‘solution’ to get tourists flocking to its resorts again. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek PM: ‘It is urgent to adopt a common understanding about how vaccination certificates should be...
Merkel ally Armin Laschet elected new leader of Germany’s CDU party
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party on Saturday chose Armin Laschet, the pragmatic governor of Germany’s most populous state, as its new leader — sending a signal of continuity months before an election in...
Uganda’s Bobi Wine rejects early poll results, claims victory
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Friday claimed victory in presidential elections, rejecting as a “complete sham” early results that gave President Yoweri Museveni a wide lead.
WhatsApp delays data sharing change after outcry
The messaging app WhatsApp has just announced that it will postpone planned changes to its data sharing policy after a widespread backlash. A number of corporations in the US have paused political donations in the...
World This Week: Trump impeachment, Uganda elections, France’s Covid curfew, Germany after Merkel
From Donald #Trump becoming the first U.S. president to be impeached twice ahead of Inauguration Day and the suspicions surrounding an Internet shutdown for elections in #Uganda to the French forced to abide by a 6pm...
‘Willingness and urgency’ to resolve Brexit trade issues: UK ambassador to France
We’re now just over a fortnight into the new arrangements between the United Kingdom and the European Union. Their combined half a billion citizens are getting used to things post-Brexit, to varying degrees...