World / Europe

London expects only half of bankers back at their desks this year 29 Jul 2020 - 07:53 pm

LONDON - London's normally buzzing financial districts will still be a pale shadow by the end of the year, as banks plan for...

Sweden to lift travel curbs to Norway and Denmark 29 Jul 2020 - 05:07 pm

STOCKHOLM: Sweden will scrap recommendations against travel to four European countries from Thursday, including neighbours Norway and Denmark, amid signs that coronavirus infections...

COVID-style: French ministers keep their distance for group photo 29 Jul 2020 - 04:54 pm

Paris: France's new cabinet posed for its official photograph Wednesday, standing in an unusual, spaced formation to observe social distancing amid the coronavirus...

Britain secures 60 mln doses of Sanofi/GSK coronavirus vaccine 29 Jul 2020 - 04:42 pm

LONDON/PARIS: Britain has signed a deal for up to 60 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine being developed by Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline...

Meghan fights to keep friends anonymous in newspaper lawsuit 29 Jul 2020 - 04:01 pm

LONDON: Lawyers for the Duchess of Sussex asked a judge at a London court on Wednesday to keep the names of five of...

Russian COVID-19 vaccine approval imminent, source says 29 Jul 2020 - 03:31 pm

MOSCOW: Russia's first potential COVID-19 vaccine will win local regulatory approval in the first half of August and be administered to frontline health...

Heathrow steps up calls for Covid-19 testing on U.K. arrivals to limit quarantine 29 Jul 2020 - 03:00 pm

London Heathrow airport will aim to introduce Covid-19 testing for arriving passengers by September if it can secure official U.K. approval for the...

EU executive signs remdesivir deal with Gilead 29 Jul 2020 - 02:25 pm

BRUSSELS: The European Union's executive said on Wednesday it has signed a contract with Gilead for its COVID-19 medicine remdesivir that would cover...

France must not drop guard against COVID-19, minister says 29 Jul 2020 - 10:48 am

Paris: France's health minister urged the country on Wednesday not to drop its guard against COVID-19, saying it faced a long battle and...

Roche’s Actemra fails test for Covid-related pneumonia 29 Jul 2020 - 10:13 am

Roche Holding AG said its Actemra medicine failed to help patients with pneumonia caused by Covid-19 in the first of several clinical tests...

Heathrow tells UK: do passenger testing or lose 'quarantine roulette' 29 Jul 2020 - 09:56 am

London: Heathrow Airport, Europe's busiest airport, called on Britain to urgently introduce a passenger testing regime, warning that without one it would lose...

Unsponsored elite runners to be lent carbon-fibre shoes 28 Jul 2020 - 09:12 pm

Paris: World Athletics announced Tuesday it was creating a scheme to lend elite runners without sponsorship deals the same carbon-fibre versions of shoes...

Portugal's popular Madeira makes masks compulsory in public 28 Jul 2020 - 08:50 pm

LISBON - Wearing masks in public will be compulsory at all times on the popular Portuguese island of Madeira from Aug. 1, the...

Virology institute launches Russia's second COVID-19 vaccine human trial 28 Jul 2020 - 08:38 pm

MOSCOW: A Russian state virology institute has started human trials of the country's second potential COVID-19 vaccine, injecting the first of five volunteers...

Belarus president says he survived coronavirus 'on his feet' 28 Jul 2020 - 07:48 pm

MINSK: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday he caught the coronavirus and recovered "on his feet" without showing any symptoms, sounding a...

Italian prime minister seeks to extend COVID-19 emergency period 28 Jul 2020 - 07:46 pm

ROME - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte asked parliament on Tuesday to extend a state of emergency, which expands his government's powers as...

Sweden unveils 'promising' Covid-19 data as new cases plunge 28 Jul 2020 - 06:48 pm

As other countries face renewed outbreaks, Sweden’s latest Covid-19 figures suggest it’s rapidly bringing the virus under control. "That Sweden has come down...