World / Europe

France changes tack and approves AstraZeneca shots for under-75s 02 Mar 2021 - 02:01 pm

Paris: France will allow people under 75 with existing health problems to get the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the health minister said, departing from...

UK's Prince Philip remains in hospital after two weeks 02 Mar 2021 - 01:50 pm

LONDON: Britain's Prince Philip was receiving treatment and undergoing heart tests on Tuesday, two weeks after the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth was...

Spain's jobless hit 4 mln for first time in 5 years as pandemic curbs bite 02 Mar 2021 - 01:36 pm

Madrid: The number of jobless people in Spain rose above 4 million for the first time in five years in February, official data...

Slovakia buying 2 million Sputnik vaccines from Russia 02 Mar 2021 - 12:29 am

PRAGUE - Slovakia is buying 2 million Sputnik V vaccines from Russia and expects half to arrive this month and next as it...

Czechs tighten COVID lockdown, seek more tests for factory workers 01 Mar 2021 - 10:58 pm

PRAGUE - The Czech Republic, battling the world's worst surge in COVID-19 infections, deployed more police officers and soldiers on Monday to help...

Global COVID-19 infections up for first time in 7 weeks, WHO says 01 Mar 2021 - 10:50 pm

ZURICH - The number of new coronavirus infections globally rose last week for the first time in seven weeks, the World Health Organization...

WHO: 'premature,' 'unrealistic' COVID-19 will end soon 01 Mar 2021 - 10:45 pm

GENEVA - A senior World Health Organization official said Monday it was "premature” and "unrealistic” to think the pandemic might be stopped by...

New WTO chief calls for tripling of vaccine production 01 Mar 2021 - 08:46 pm

GENEVA - The new chief of the World Trade Organization (WTO) urged its member states on Monday to work with pharmaceutical companies to...

Fraudsters offer 1 billion COVID-19 doses across EU, agency warns 01 Mar 2021 - 08:10 pm

BRUSSELS - Dubious intermediaries have offered governments across the European Union a total of about 1 billion non-existent COVID-19 vaccine doses worth about...

UK's Prince Philip, 99, moves hospital for heart tests 01 Mar 2021 - 03:59 pm

LONDON: Britain's Prince Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, was transferred to a different hospital in central London on Monday to have...

Mask, gloves, cake: Hungarians bake to keep ambulance staff going 01 Mar 2021 - 03:57 pm

Szentendre, Hungary: Hungarians are baking for ambulance workers across the country coping with a new surge in COVID-19 infections after the founder of...

French court finds former President Sarkozy guilty of corruption 01 Mar 2021 - 03:50 pm

PARIS:Judges found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of trying to bribe a judge and of influence-peddling on Monday and sentenced him to three...

Ukraine throws away unused COVID-19 shots as doctors skip their own vaccinations 01 Mar 2021 - 03:42 pm

Kyiv: Ukrainian medical facilities have thrown away some unused COVID-19 vaccines after doctors failed to show up for their own appointments to be...

'Please get in touch': UK searches for mystery spreader of Brazil variant 01 Mar 2021 - 02:43 pm

London: Britain on Monday appealed for a mystery individual infected with a highly transmissible Brazilian variant of the novel coronavirus to come forward,...

Police enter Barcelona's stadium in search operation 01 Mar 2021 - 02:25 pm

BARCELONA, Spain: Spanish police entered Barcelona's stadium and detained some people on Monday in a search and seize operation related to an investigation...

Teachers have similar levels of COVID-19 exposure to other jobs - UK's ONS 01 Mar 2021 - 01:53 pm

London: Teachers are not at a higher risk of infection in their jobs than people in other professions, data released by Britain's Office...

Germany reopens hairdressers, considers way ahead on virus 01 Mar 2021 - 01:17 pm

BERLIN: Hairdressers across Germany reopened for business Monday after a 2½-month closure, another cautious step as the country balances a desire to loosen...

Eurofins launches prescription-free Covid-19 test, eyes further growth 01 Mar 2021 - 11:24 am

Eurofins Scientific announced on Monday the launch of a prescription-free at-home COVID-19 PCR test, as the French laboratories and diagnostics company eyed further...