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French medical regulator approves COVID-19 vaccine 24 Dec 2020 - 01:46 pm
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UK-France border to stay open at Christmas to clear truck logjam 24 Dec 2020 - 01:43 pm
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Refugee camp burned down as Bosnia struggles to house migrants 23 Dec 2020 - 06:00 pm
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Three French police shot dead while responding to domestic violence call 23 Dec 2020 - 03:27 pm
French Gendarmes speak with a man at the Gendarmerie in Ambert, central France on December 23, 2020, after three gendarmes were killed and a fourth wounded by a gunman they confronted in response to a domestic violence call in Saint-Just. AFP / Olivier Ch
Russia says expects 'nothing good' from Biden 23 Dec 2020 - 02:33 pm
FILE PHOTO: US President-Elect Joe Biden delivers remarks, before the holiday, at The Queen in Wilmington, Delaware.  AFP / Alex Edelman
Ninety-year-old woman first in Switzerland to get COVID-19 shot 23 Dec 2020 - 02:27 pm
This handout photograph taken and distributed on December 23, 2020 by the Canton of Lucerne shows an unidentified care home resident in her 90s receiving the jab at the start of the Swiss Covid-19 vaccination campaign.  AFP PHOTO / Canton of Lucerne / Key
Czechs extend emergency, close shops as cases soar 23 Dec 2020 - 02:08 pm
FILE PHOTO: A health care worker collects a swab sample during a voluntary rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, December 16, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny/File Photo
Anger boils over in Dover as stranded truckers demand to leave UK 23 Dec 2020 - 12:43 pm
Traffic queues trying to enter the port of Dover in Kent, south east England, on December 23, 2020, that is still cordoned after the UK and France agreed a protocol to reopen the border to accompanied freight arriving in France from the UK requiring all l
Serbia gets first batch of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine 22 Dec 2020 - 03:26 pm
Medical workers receive the first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines at The Institute of Virology, Vaccines and Sera
BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine heads to EU as effectiveness against new strain tested 22 Dec 2020 - 03:12 pm
CEO and co-founder of BioNTech, Ugur Sahin, answers journalists' questions after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved its COVID-19 vaccine, at the company headquarters in Mainz, Germany December 22, 2020. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski
Britain tells shoppers food is plentiful despite freight halt 22 Dec 2020 - 02:26 pm
Police officers speak to a driver in one of lorries parked on the M20 motorway towards Eurotunnel and the Port of Dover, as EU countries impose a travel ban from the UK following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Folkestone, Britain, Decembe
Pfizer, Moderna testing their vaccines against UK coronavirus variant: CNN 22 Dec 2020 - 01:50 pm
Walgreens Pharmacist Jessica Sahni holds the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at The New Jewish Home in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Yuki Iwamura
WHO Europe to convene member states over new virus variant 22 Dec 2020 - 12:53 pm
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UK govt borrowing soars further on virus spending 22 Dec 2020 - 12:23 pm
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on December 21, 2020, after a string of countries banned travellers and all but unaccompanied freight arriving from the UK, due to t
BioNTech says can make mutation-beating vaccine in six weeks 22 Dec 2020 - 12:15 pm
Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of German biotech firm BioNTech, is interviewed by journalists in Marburg, Germany September 17, 2020. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo
Sweden blocks travel from Denmark over new virus strain 21 Dec 2020 - 07:31 pm
The border crossing between Sweden and Denmark at Oresund bridge is seen after the Swedish government decided to close it to visitors, to fight the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Malmo, Sweden, December 21, 2020. TT News Agency/Johan Nilsson
Pfizer, BioNTech Covid vaccine wins european backing 21 Dec 2020 - 06:44 pm
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Explainer: The new coronavirus variant in Britain: How worrying is it? 21 Dec 2020 - 05:04 pm
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