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Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:29:04 +0100
Scientists race to find a 'universal vaccine' effective against all COVID-19 variants
Delphine Guyon-Gellin is the manager of the 'universal vaccine' project at Osivax based in Lyon. She says, "We are targeting a part inside the virus, which is not accessible for the antibodies, so we train the immune system to develop another type of...

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:13:59 +0100
Germany 'super election year' starts with state and regional ballots on Sunday
On Sunday two German states with a combined population of over 15 million people will elect new regional governments. It's the start of the so-called 'super election year' culminating with federal elections in September.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:08:17 +0100
Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi charged with corruption to the tune of $600,000
Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested during the February 1 coup. This is the fifth offence she has been charged with since then.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 08:35:55 +0100
Thailand joins countries in delaying use of AstraZeneca vaccine
A number of European countries have already suspended the vaccine pending an investigation into reports of blood clots in some people.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 07:27:40 +0100
Bangladesh's first transgender news anchor hired by satellite TV station
Tashnuva Anan Shishir made her debut on International Women's Day

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 06:57:18 +0100
Japan tightens border controls over rise in new COVID-19 variant cases
Japan has confirmed 345 cases of the more contagious new variants.

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 06:18:23 +0100
COVID-19 sparks 'crisis of meaning' for struggling European students
'The hardest part, for me especially, is finding a reason to wake up in the morning.'

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:22:22 +0100
Post-Brexit trade: UK delays EU import checks by several months over disruption fears
UK industry groups, who had long warned of disruption from post-Brexit red tape, have welcomed the move.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:01:33 +0100
Is there any substance behind the AstraZeneca vaccine doubts?
Despite being shown to prevent against severe disease, AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine has attracted negative publicity. Here's a closer look.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:07:39 +0100
Millions of daffodils left unpicked in England because of post-Brexit migrant worker rules
Tens of millions of daffodils in Britain are being left unpicked this year because flower farmers have been locked out of a scheme to allow European migrants to work on British farms.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:46:20 +0100
New murder charge for officer on trial for George Floyd’s death
The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis led to worldwide protests over police brutality and racial injustice.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:29:47 +0100
Own wurst enemy: Burglar's bite of a sausage helps police trace him nine years later
German police say they have solved a nine-year-old burglary using DNA on a half-eaten piece of sausage.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:25:52 +0100
COVID-19 vaccine rollout: How do countries in Europe compare?
With vaccinations underway in the majority of Europe, who is making the fastest progress?

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:04:34 +0100
One year on, a look back at how COVID-19 upended life in Europe
The lockdown scenes in Wuhan initially seemed completely alien. But the virus raced across the globe, and soon the streets of Europe also became eerily quiet.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:45:21 +0100
Poland and Hungary file complaint over EU’s rule of law requirements
The two countries are challenging a mechanism that links EU funding with respect for the rule of law.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:02:56 +0100
Rich countries must stop ‘vaccine apartheid’ | View
"We need courageous leadership that suspends rules that are barriers to expanding life-saving vaccine access," write Aruna Kashyap and Margaret Wurth, both from Human Rights Watch

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:17:00 +0100
COVID-19 has weakened the case for the European Union, Euronews survey reveals
The prevailing view in Italy, Germany, France and the UK is that COVID-19 has weakened the case for the EU, according to a Euronews survey.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:39:06 +0100
France's Europe Minister was 'pressured' not to visit Poland's 'LGBT-free' zones
But Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk has denied the allegations and says the minister's comments are "clearly not true".

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:29:37 +0100
Johnson&Johnson single dose COVID-19 vaccine authorised by EU regulator
The European Medicines Agency recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation for the single dose Johnson&Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:08:50 +0100
Two teenagers probed for murder after girl, 14, drowned near Paris
Two French teenagers are being investigated for murder after a 14-year-old schoolgirl was found drowned in the River Seine near Paris.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:56:18 +0100
'We're very much not a racist family,' says Prince William after Meghan interview
Prince William is the first royal to directly address the explosive interview that Harry and Meghan gave to Oprah Winfrey.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:55:36 +0100
Denmark, Iceland and Norway suspend AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccinations after blood clot reports
"Right now we need all the vaccines we can get. Therefore, putting one of the vaccines on pause is not an easy decision," said Søren Brostrøm, Director General of the Danish Health Authority.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:04:46 +0100
'Stop fighting each other' on vaccines, WHO official tells world leaders in Euronews interview
Euronews spoke to WHO's Special Envoy on COVID-19 to look back at the key lessons the world has learned in this pandemic year and the road still ahead to beat the virus.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 10:27:36 +0100
China endorses plan to tighten control of Hong Kong elections
The Communist Party put forward plans which would reduce democratic representation in Hong Kong elections, following pro-democracy demonstrations in the region.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:43:34 +0100
Man who lost daughter in Japan tsunami to run in Olympic torch relay
Fukushima prefecture, the area at the heart of the 2011 catastrophe, will be the starting point of this month's Olympic torch relay.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 07:30:52 +0100
It's a year since COVID was declared a pandemic. Did WHO act too late?
It's been exactly a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. By then, the virus was already confirmed in 114 countries.

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 06:34:06 +0100
Fukushima: Japan marks 10th disaster anniversary while still recovering
More than 18,000 people died in the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that struck Japan's northeastern coast on March 11, 2011.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 22:24:17 +0100
US Congress approves Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill
The White House described it as a "historic legislative package that will turn the page on this pandemic, deliver direct relief to Americans, and jumpstart our economy."

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:18:28 +0100
Former press officer for Angela Merkel convicted of spying for Egypt
Federal prosecutors said he had begun spying in July 2010 on instructions from the Egyptian embassy in Berlin.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:20:41 +0100
Puigdemont and other Catalan leaders have lost their immunity from prosecution. What happens next?
The decision by MEPs will likely extend the three-and-a-half-year legal saga on the Catalan separatists' fate by months, if not years, as many avenues for appeal remain open.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:20:11 +0100
Belarus: EU rejects claim that European funds financed Lukashenko's property 'goldmine'
A new documentary film alleges that EU funds contributed to financing Lukashenko's regime and his lavish lifestyle. The bloc has rejected the accusations as "completely unfounded and baseless."

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:01:11 +0100
Madrid set for early elections after regional government collapses
Spain's political landscape has been shaken after the regional government in Madrid split and called an early election.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:10:08 +0100
Sarah Everard: UK police discover 'human remains' in woodland
Sarah Everard, 33, vanished while walking home from a friend's apartment in London on March 3.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:21:07 +0100
Police hunt sparked after grandfather picks up wrong boy from nursery in Poland
The 80-year-old man only realised he had not collected his grandson when the police arrived at his house.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:09:53 +0100
COVID-19 vaccine: French, Germans and Italians unhappy over rollout strategy, Euronews poll shows
Three-quarters of respondents in France (75%) and Germany (77%) and more than two-thirds in Italy (68%) were unhappy with the vaccine rollout.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:02:19 +0100
Pandemic, social justice, territorial conflicts: 2021 World Press Photo Contest nominees announced
The strongest photographs that tell the story of an unprecedented year. The World Press Photo Foundation selected this year's nominees for the 2021 Photo Contest.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:44:48 +0100
Armenian anti-government protesters blockade Parliament in Yerevan
Armenian anti-government protesters blockade Parliament in Yerevan calling for the Prime Minister's resignation

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:14:45 +0100
EU governments must give women access to midwifery care for home births | View
Throughout Central and Eastern Europe, institutional mechanisms are still being used to hamper midwifery practice, creating conditions where midwifery is possible in theory but not in practice.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:12:53 +0100
Greece: Three police officers wounded in protest against police violence
5,000 protesters marched in Athens after footage of a police officer beating a man with a baton became viral.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:00:51 +0100
How we rose from Fukushima disaster with a vision for renewables | View
On Thursday (March 11) it's 10 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:50:19 +0100
Vaccine nationalism: 'UK has not blocked exports' says Johnson in rebuke to EU's Michel over claim
"This pandemic has put us all on the same side in the battle for global health. We oppose vaccine nationalism in all its forms," said the UK prime minister.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 07:08:24 +0100
Biden on cusp of triumph as House set to vote on $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill
The massive package provides up to $1,400 direct payments to most Americans, extended emergency unemployment benefits and hundreds of billions for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 06:34:52 +0100
George Floyd death: Jury selection for Derek Chauvin's trial begins
Some of the jurors were dismissed after saying they would not be able to set aside their views on what happened.

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:10:35 +0100
Judge puts end to shooting case against Breonna Taylor's boyfriend
Taylor's death was one in a string that sparked demonstrations against racism and police brutality in 2020.

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 20:02:22 +0100
Andrei Karlov: Turkey sentences five to life terms for Russian ambassador's killing
A Turkish court has sentenced five people to life in prison over the assassination of Russia's ambassador in 2016.

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:53:57 +0100
France underestimated impact of nuclear tests in French Polynesia, study finds
The findings, published by the investigative journalism newsroom Disclose, suggest that the radiation levels caused by the tests were far greater than officially acknowledged.

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:38:16 +0100
Meghan and Harry interview: Queen pledges that any racism issues 'will be addressed privately'
The Queen said in a statement that Harry, Prince of Wales, Meghan Markle and their son, Archie, were "much-loved family members".

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:31:33 +0100
Instagram algorithms push misinformation to users, study claims
The report found that users curious about dubious posts were directed to more false claims and dangerous content.

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:23:49 +0100
A year on from Europe's first lockdown, Italy mulls new restrictions
Rome is considering fresh restrictions to control a surge in cases attributed to variants.

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:55:25 +0100
Displaced Syrian children have 'lost connection' with their parent country
One in three children would rather be living outside Syria according to a Save the Children's study of 1,900 displaced children and their caregivers across Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and the Netherlands. The study found the vast majority can’t imagine...



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