World / Europe

Italy makes face masks mandatory as coronavirus cases surge 07 Oct 2020 - 07:31 pm

ROME - Italy on Wednesday made it mandatory to wear face masks outdoors nationwide in an effort to curb the spread of the...

Belarus opposition leader on Russia's wanted list 07 Oct 2020 - 07:29 pm

Moscow: Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has been placed on Russia's wanted list, the country's interior ministry said Wednesday. The 38-year-old, who took...

Boris Johnson warns of new Covid-19 outbreaks in London and Midlands 07 Oct 2020 - 07:06 pm

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned coronavirus is spreading in London, as new analysis showed 19 out of the 20 areas under local...

EU buys more Remdesivir to treat 3,400 patients amid shortages 07 Oct 2020 - 02:59 pm

Brussels: The European Commission said on Wednesday it had agreed with U.S. company Gilead to buy additional doses to treat about 3,400 patients...

Spain unveils huge economic recovery plan amid pandemic 07 Oct 2020 - 02:42 pm

LISBON, Portugal: Spain’s prime minister unveiled a major plan Wednesday to boost his country out of recession by spending 140 billion euros ($162...

Charpentier and Doudna win 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 07 Oct 2020 - 02:12 pm

STOCKHOLM: Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing,...

Czech COVID-19 cases rising at fastest rate in Europe 07 Oct 2020 - 12:26 pm

Prague: The Czech Republic reported a record 4,457 new coronavirus cases in a single day, Health Ministry data showed on Wednesday, as a...

New Tesco CEO happy with strategy and direction of business 07 Oct 2020 - 10:24 am

LONDON: Ken Murphy, the new chief executive of Tesco, said on Wednesday he was happy with the British retailer's strategy and direction after...

UK's COVID-19 testing system hit by Roche supply problems 07 Oct 2020 - 10:02 am

LONDON: Britain's national COVID-19 testing system was facing disruption on Wednesday after Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said problems at a new warehouse had...

Belgium tightens social contact rules as coronavirus cases surge 06 Oct 2020 - 11:41 pm

BRUSSELS - Belgium will tighten coronavirus restrictions at the end of the week, limiting groups to a maximum of four people in a...

Rich world could be close to normal by late 2021 if vaccine works - Bill Gates 06 Oct 2020 - 08:20 pm

LONDON - Rich countries could be back to close to normal by late 2021 if a COVID-19 vaccine works, is ready soon and...

Floods in France, Italy swept bodies out of cemeteries 06 Oct 2020 - 05:18 pm

BREIL-SUR-ROYA, France: The grim job of searching for flood victims in Alpine villages and on the nearby French and Italian coasts has grown...

COVID-19 vaccine may be ready by year-end: WHO's Tedros 06 Oct 2020 - 04:45 pm

GENEVA: A vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by year-end, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, without elaborating....

GSK to widen COVID-19 antibody treatment trial after safety clearance 06 Oct 2020 - 03:46 pm

GlaxoSmithKline and partner Vir Biotechnology will expand their trial of an experimental antibody to treat COVID-19 after initial use by a group of...

Covid-19 intubation may be less risky than feared: study 06 Oct 2020 - 03:26 pm

Paris: Procedures like inserting or removing breathing tubes, which were thought to pose a serious danger of Covid-19 transmission to health workers, produce...

Europe starts real-time review of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine 06 Oct 2020 - 03:20 pm

The EU health regulator has launched a real-time review of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech, it said...

Italy prepares to make masks outdoors mandatory 06 Oct 2020 - 02:48 pm

ROME: Italy is considering making the use of masks outdoors mandatory nationwide to fight the coronavirus, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Tuesday....