Angela Merkel has taken the unusual step of issuing a personal apology to the nation as she performed a U-turn on plans to put Germany under a hard lockdown over Easter following a critical backlash.more
The UK and European Commission are working together "to create a win-win situation and expand vaccine supply for all our citizens", according to a joint statement issued yesterday evening. more
Robert Lewandowski has been awarded by President Andrzej Duda with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. A wave of criticism fell on the Bayern Munich striker.more
Four Chinese officials will be sanctioned by the UK over "appalling violations" of human rights against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province, the foreign secretary has announced.more
Dutch government will be tested for COVID-19 on Wednesday after a Cabinet minister came down with the illness, his spokesman told Reuters on Monday.more
The Scottish government has published draft legislation for the holding of a second independence referendum. It wants to hold indyref2 after the pandemic but "in the first half of the new parliamentary term".more
The leader of Poland 2050 Szymon Hołownia in March again led the trust ranking - 48 percent trust him. surveyed by CBOS. President Andrzej Duda came second with 45 percent. trust, and the third - Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who is trusted by 42 percent. respondents.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will talk to the leaders of the most important EU countries before Thursday's EU summit to dissuade them from the idea of banning the export of vaccines against Covid-19, British media reports today.more
Former President Donald Trump is planning to launch his own social-media platform within the coming months, longtime Trump adviser Jason Miller said during a Sunday appearance on Fox News "Media Buzz."more
Germany is set to extend a lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic into its fifth month, according to a draft proposal, after infection rates exceeded the level at which authorities say hospitals will be overstretched.more
Police are launching an investigation into Prime Minister Erna Solberg's birthday celebrations, which breached local and national Covid-19 restrictions.
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Boris Johnson has had the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. The prime minister, who is aged 56, got his first dose at London's St Thomas' Hospital, where he was treated in intensive care last April after contracting COVID-19.more
Relations between the US and Russia are "very bad," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said after the US president harshly announced during an interview that "Putin will pay the price for interfering with the US elections." more
The largest union of French students, UNEF, organizes meetings that are not allowed for people with white skin, admitted its president, Melanie Luce, in a radio interview. However, she refused to recognize this as racism.more
British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab accused the European Commission of balancing on the brink over its threat of a ban on exports of Covid-19 vaccines and called on EC chief Ursula von der Leyen to explain her comments on the matter.more
Democracy is on the decline, so countries like the UK want to be "forces of good" in the world, said British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab yesterday.more
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's party has won the most seats in parliamentary elections, projections show. Victory hands Mr Rutte a mandate to form a new coalition government led by his centre-right VVD party, with a fourth term as prime minister.more
Russia has condemned the decision by the UK government to boost its arsenal of nuclear weapons, saying the move would harm international stability.more
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit India in late April on his first major international trip after Britain leaves the European Union in an effort to increase Britain's capacity in the region, the prime minister's office confirmed.more
