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Sat, 20 Mar 2021 09:25:50 +0100
'Speak out': Joe Biden and Kamala Harris decry racism after attack on Asian Americans
The US President and Vice-President denounced racism hidden 'in plain sight' as they visited Atlanta, days after a white gunman killed eight people, mostly Asian American women.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:34:40 +0100
A week after saying COVID-19 was under control, Bulgaria locks down
“We might appear to make inconsistent decisions,” said Bulgaria's health minister Kostadin Angelov, announcing a tightening of restrictions.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:30:49 +0100
Limited access to COVID vaccines for Europe's poor: the case of Moldova
Moldova will receive 20% of the country's total COVID-19 vaccine needs through the WHO's co-sponsored COVAX programme. But many more are needed and negotiations with manufacturers are proving to be difficult.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:01:36 +0100
France recommends reserving AstraZeneca vaccine for over 55s despite EMA advice
Despite resuming the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine, France's health authority has recommended reserving it for people aged 55 and over.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:50:44 +0100
After AstraZeneca back-and-forth, authorities could struggle to convince sceptics
Experts fear mixed messaging over AstraZeneca's coronavirus jab could undermine public trust and slow down immunisation campaigns.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:40:32 +0100
Russia will have to react if Bosnia joins NATO, warns embassy
Bosnian officials slammed the Russian warning, calling it a “veiled threat” against Bosnia and its western allies.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:30:11 +0100
Norway prime minister Erna Solberg apologises for breaking her own government's COVID rules
Solberg apologised for holding a birthday party last month in a restaurant with 13 people when public gatherings in Norway were limited to 10 people.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:51:31 +0100
Rock 'n' Rollout: Could Gibraltar be a vision of the coming reopening of Europe?
Gibraltar was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic - but its successful vaccination campaign should see all adults immunised by the end of March, and it is opening back up.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:42:16 +0100
Army tank accidentally blows up a chicken coop in Italy
Italian farmer cries foul after an army tank accidentally blows up a chicken farm near Pordenone.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:34:08 +0100
In Ukraine, Stepan Bandera’s legacy becomes a political football... again
Six decades after Bandera's murder at the hands of Soviet agents in Munich, his life remains a key electoral issue in Ukraine.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:04:47 +0100
Finding Refuge: Ten years of war in Syria, through the eyes of Syrians forced to flee
A decade since the start of the conflict that has torn Syria apart, Euronews spoke to Syrians who were forced to flee their country, and have now found refuge in various parts of Europe.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:34:29 +0100
From Damascus to Rouen: A Syrian dancer’s long road to refuge
The war in Syria displaced half of the country’s population, with many escaping to Europe for refuge - but the journey was rarely simple, or safe.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:31:31 +0100
'Not enough vaccines to stop third wave' of COVID in Europe, says German health minister
The warning from Jens Spahn comes on the day several countries including Germany resume AstraZeneca vaccinations after a four-day suspension.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:48:49 +0100
Algerian passengers 'stuck' for three weeks at Paris airport due to COVID-19 border closure
A group of 25 have been stranded at Charles de Gaulle airport as they try to reach Algeria, where others also complain of being punished by the country's border closure.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:04:12 +0100
Italian artist collective turns Turin residential building into art gallery
It comes as visits to museums remain strictly forbidden across most of Italy.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:01:23 +0100
EU must renew migrant deal with Turkey 'as soon as possible'
It has been 5 years since the EU reached an agreement with Turkey over the flow of migrants to Europe. At the height of the migration crisis, the bloc agreed to give Turkey money in exchange for a reduction in illegal crossings and an improvement in ...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:50:59 +0100
Moldova’s vaccine rollout hampered by corruption, says president
Recently-elected President Maia Sandu told Euronews she has secured a donation of 200,000 doses from Romania and free access to 20% of Moldova's total vaccine needs through the global vaccine initiative COVAX. But corruption is hampering the rollout ...

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:30:17 +0100
Scotland’s First Minister ‘misled’ parliament over Salmond allegations
A committee has found Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon “misled” the nation’s parliament over sexual assault allegations against her predecessor Alex Salmond.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:50:34 +0100
Gunmen massacre police officers in ambush in central Mexico
A huge search was underway for those responsible for killing eight state police officers and five prosecution investigators in the rural area southwest of Mexico City.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 07:45:20 +0100
China: Trial of Canadian businessman Michael Spavor ends without verdict
Two Canadians have been held for more than two years in apparent retaliation for Canada's arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive.

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 07:14:18 +0100
US and China clash amid blunt exchanges in first face-to-face meeting under President Biden
The meetings in Alaska are a new test in increasingly troubled relations between the two countries, at odds over human rights, Chinese assertiveness and the coronavirus pandemic.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:52:39 +0100
Finland suspends AstraZeneca vaccine despite European regulator saying it is safe and effective
Finland's public health authority said the jab would be halted "until there is more information and a possible causality can be assessed".

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:22:05 +0100
Biden plans to send four million AstraZeneca COVID jabs to Mexico, Canada
The US will send four million AstraZeneca doses to Mexico and Canada, the White House said on Thursday.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:17:40 +0100
Most misinformation spread online is accidental, study finds
Half of the misinformation that spreads online is shared because users are not paying attention, a study has found.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:00:55 +0100
Will travel be possible this summer with the EU's Digital Green Certificate?
"No, I do not think that Europe is losing the battle of vaccines. I think there is a lot of noise around the European vaccination programme". - Margaritis Schinas, Vice President of the EU Commission, tells all about the Digital Green Certificate, t...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:18:53 +0100
'I want to live not just survive': Kosovo and its chronic brain drain problem
Kosovo's new government has promised to end the exodus of young Kosovo Albanians abroad. It may struggle to persuade them to stay at home.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:15:07 +0100
One year on, Italy remembers coronavirus victims
Footage of an army convoy snaking its way through Bergamo's roads on March 18th, 2020 remains one of the most heart-wrenching and iconic images of the pandemic

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:57:53 +0100
Paris and more than a dozen French areas to lock down for a month, says PM Jean Castex
Sixteen regions in France including the capital will lock down from Friday for a month amid rising COVID-19 cases and hospital saturation.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:30:55 +0100
Man in cow mask, fined under burqa ban law, has conviction quashed
Austria's Constitutional Court has overturned the sentence of an animal rights activist who was fined under a law banning full-face veils while wearing a cow mask.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:30:42 +0100
Bulgaria imposes 10-day lockdown to tackle rising COVID-19 cases
The new restrictions will be the last test for the centre-right government of Boyko Borissov, who hopes to win a fourth term in the parliamentary elections on April 4.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:11:47 +0100
Halting AstraZeneca vaccine ‘will lead to deaths’ says drug safety expert
"It's not always the best policy to withdraw the vaccine, especially when you have a disease that's killing people," an expert in drug safety tells Euronews.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:42:33 +0100
WHO advises against vaccine passports as EU debates 'green pass'
EU leaders will discuss the divisive issue at a summit next week.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:39:49 +0100
Armenia’s PM calls early elections in a bid to defuse country’s political crisis
BREAKING: Armenia’s PM calls early elections in a bid to defuse the country’s political crisis

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:18:58 +0100
After years of delay, renovation works for the iconic Chain Bridge in Budapest gets underway
After years of delay, renovation works for the iconic Budapest bridge connecting the Buda and Pest parts of the Hungarian capital, have finally started.The project is expected to cost around 51 million euros and to cause some disruption to the capita...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:02:03 +0100
Child abuse in football: Report finds 'significant institutional failings' in the FA
"There was often a feeling that without ‘concrete evidence’ or a specific allegation from a child nothing could, or should, be done", said the chief investigator.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:45:12 +0100
Thousand-year-old Spanish Holm Oak wins 'European Tree of the Year' title
Residents of a small village in North-East Spain have been popping the Cava corks! Their huge Oak tree has just been named 'European Tree of the Year'.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:53:43 +0100
How ISIS and coalition airstrikes combined to terrorise Raqqa
Amid Syria’s civil war, Raqqa became known the world over for being the stage of some of the most horrific episodes of violence perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State.

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:21:56 +0100
Vaccinating children is key for herd immunity, say experts. How far away is such a jab?
Several COVID-19 vaccines are currently being tested in teenagers and trials are starting in younger children as well.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 23:21:46 +0100
Man charged with killing 8 people at Georgia massage parlours
A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlours in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community that’s increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:49:25 +0100
Joe Biden reaffirms commitment to the Good Friday Agreement on St. Patrick's Day
In a virtual meeting with Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin, Biden said they had a robust agenda to tackle together including the COVID-19 pandemic and Ireland's leadership on the UN Security Council.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:20:29 +0100
Tanzania's President John Magufuli dies aged 61
President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:08:01 +0100
Mark Rutte's party wins most seats in Dutch general election, preliminary results suggest
The caretaker prime minister's centre-right party will win the most seats in the Dutch general election, according to preliminary results.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:04:43 +0100
Dutch election: Rule change to accept wrongly sealed mail-in ballots
Elderly citizens were asked to vote by post for the first time in the elections, which led to some confusion.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:45:20 +0100
Dutch election: Far-right accounts are trying to spread claims of voter fraud like Donald Trump
Unfounded claims of voter fraud have published online by far-right accounts in the Netherlands in the lead-up to the elections.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:22:12 +0100
St Patrick's Day: Sobering milestone as Irish pubs closed for a second consecutive March 17
As Irish pubs reach a year of closures, English pubs say their beer gardens are already fully booked ahead of April's easing of restrictions.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:10:59 +0100
Meet the anti-racist campaigner taking on the Dutch right in this week's election
The Netherlands has a reputation as a liberal country. The reality is quite different.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:29:05 +0100
Sputnik V: Has Russia won the battle in global vaccine diplomacy?
As the EU has struggled to make available European-manufactured vaccines, Russia has already sent its Sputnik V to Hungary and Slovakia and offered to supply 50 million more doses to Europe.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:24:10 +0100
What are the real reasons behind France's slow vaccine rollout?
By March 14, France had vaccinated 10.85 people per 100 inhabitants, compared to 32.01 in the United States and 38.39 in the United Kingdom, according to Our World in Data.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:34:59 +0100
Tinder to offer pre-date background checks to its users
The online dating platform will roll its new feature out later this year in the US, aiming to keep users safer as they date.

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:19:55 +0100
Belarus protests: Convictions tallied at 400, but hundreds more are still in jail
Belarusian prosecutors say that at least 400 people have been convicted for participating in opposition demonstrations against President Lukashenko. But what about all the others that were arrested?



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