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In 2020 Booking.com received 100 million euros in support from the Dutch government. Now the three-person management of the popular booking site is to receive a bonus of 28 million euros. Politicians are demanding a refund.more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral, it has been reported.more

Boris Johnson acted "unwisely" by not being more "rigorous" in finding out who had funded refurbishment work on the Downing Street flat, a report says.more

Even more money for health protection or state funds for the purchase of housing - this is how the political opposition wants to break the promises made in the "Polish Deal" of the United Right.more

Hungary's Viktor Orban has ended a controversial visit to Boris Johnson by acknowledging he is anti-immigration and standing by an earlier condemnation of Muslim migrants as "invaders". He said they had destroyed the border and marched through the country.more

British Health Minister Matt Hancock has denied claims that he was lying about the Covid-19 pandemic, which he was accused of the day before by former chief adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings.more

The Swiss government said it was withdrawing from talks with the European Union on a comprehensive package of bilateral agreements. He added that after many years of negotiations, the parties did not reach agreement on key issues.more

"Boris Johnson is not the right person to lead the UK through the coronavirus pandemic and thousands of people have died needlessly as a result of government mistakes," said former chief adviser to British Prime Minister Dominic Cummings yesterday.more

Aviation chief executives have condemned “the continuing demonisation of overseas travel” by the UK government.more

Boris Johnson wanted to be infected with Covid-19 live on TV to ‘show it’s nothing to be scared of’ and said it was like the new swine flu, Dominic Cummings has claimed. more

Russian citizen Sofia Sapiega, detained at the airport in Minsk after the forced landing of a Ryanair plane, is suspected of organizing mass riots and activities that seriously violate public order, reports the Russian "Novaya Gazeta". "There was a terrorist on the plane," says Alyaksandr Lukashenka, commenting on the landing of the Ryanair plane forced by the Belarusian authorities.more

As many as 89 percent of Poles declare that they believe in science. But we do not want to vaccinate ourselves so much - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports today. more

The leader of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, was outraged yesterday at his party's deputy Marjorie Taylor Greene, who compared the requirement to wear masks during the epidemic to the Holocaust. Other members of Congress also criticized it.more

Boris Johnson's comments about women wearing the burka have given an impression that the Tories are "insensitive to Muslim communities", an independent review has said.more

The UK does not currently plan to invite other "national participants" to the June summit of G7 leaders, a government spokeswoman said when asked about the French proposal to invite the Belarusian opposition to this meeting.more

Belarusian airlines will not be allowed to enter British airspace unless they have specific authorisation, Britain said on Tuesday after a Ryanair plane was forced to land in Minsk in an incident denounced by Western countries as “state piracy”.more

President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin agreed Tuesday to meet next month in Geneva, a face-to-face encounter the White House hopes will help bring some predictability to a fraught relationship that’s only worsened in the first months of the Democratic administration.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for the immediate release of the journalist Raman Pratasiewicz, kidnapped by the Belarusian authorities, and announced that they would suffer the consequences of their actions.more

The EU on Monday agreed to slap new sanctions on Belarus, after Minsk forced a plane flying over its airspace to land in order to arrest a Belarusian dissident onboard.more

"We, as Poland, do not support this letter," said the Minister of Family and Social Policy, Marlena Maląg, referring to the letter of 48 ambassadors, diplomats and representatives of international organizations, in which they expressed their support for efforts to make the public aware of LGBT problems.more

Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds are due to get married next summer, tabloid The Sun reported on its own whistleblowers. According to the journal, the couple has already sent cards to family and friends with an invitation for Saturday, July 30, 2022.more

Forcing Ryanair's aircraft to land in Belarus was "state-supported air piracy", Ireland Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said today, calling on the European Union to give a tough response. It was a "state sponsored kidnapping," Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary added.more

Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, joined counterparts from the US, Ireland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and the Czech Republic in condemning the Belarus action as “an act of piracy” and calling for the suspension of all overflights.more

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, launched a fighter jet on Sunday to force a commercial jet carrying a prominent opposition journalist to land in the capital, Minsk, to arrest him.more

More than half of Republican Party voters, 53 percent, said they think Donald Trump is currently the "true president" of the United States, not Joe Biden, a new poll shows.more