In The WorldThisWeek, columnist and political consultant Philippe Moreau Chevrolet argues that ten for dinner at the Elysée Palace the night before #Macron contracted #Covid undermines 🇫🇷 France’s ‘six...
US authorises Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use
Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on Friday became the second to receive emergency use authorisation (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, welcome news to a nation with a staggering COVID-19 death toll...
Italy imposes lockdown over Christmas and New Year to curb spread of Covid-19
Italy, one of the countries worst hit by Covid-19, will be placed under new restrictions over the Christmas and New Year periods, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced late Friday.
Life outside the EU: Swiss lessons for post-Brexit UK (part 2)
In our latest “out-and-about” Talking Europe, we’re taking you to a land of mountains, lakes, chocolate, banks and neutrality. It is, of course, Switzerland: the landlocked country in the heart of...
Life outside the EU: Swiss lessons for post-Brexit UK (part 1)
In our latest “out-and-about” Talking Europe, we’re taking you to a land of mountains, lakes, chocolate, banks and neutrality. It is, of course, Switzerland: the landlocked country in the heart of...
Plan to test millions of school pupils in England is “undeliverable” – BBC News
The UK government’s plans to test millions of school pupils in England for Covid when they return to their classrooms in January is undeliverable – according to teaching unions, school governors, the Church...
Fears that new Covid variant is more infectious and harder to contain – BBC News
Hospitals across south-east England have begun cancelling non-urgent operations with some struggling to cope with twice the number of patients they had in the spring. It comes as UK government sources warned of concerns...