Fate of Euro 2020 tournament hangs on vaccine efforts
The fate of the rescheduled Euro 2020 football tournament will not be decided until March but organisers UEFA are hoping that vaccination efforts will allow them to stick to their original ...
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Erdogan hopes new Turkey-Greece talks will herald new era
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he hoped the resumption of talks between Turkey and Greece over maritime disputes would herald a new era, and he urged Athens not to ...
Merkel sees coronavirus lockdown until early April
Chancellor Angela Merkel has told lawmakers in her conservative party that she expects a lockdown in Germany to curb the spread of the coronavirus to last until the start of ...
Indonesia retrieves ‘black box’ from crashed Sriwijaya Air plane
Indonesian authorities have retrieved one of the black boxes from a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea at the weekend, a navy spokesman said on Tuesday. The ...
More woes for Trump as his biggest lender drops him
Deutsche Bank will not do business in the future with U.S. President Donald Trump or his companies in the wake of his supporters’ assault on the U.S. Capitol, ...
Premier League records 36 new Covid cases as calls for season’s halt grow
The Premier League said on Monday it recorded 36 new COVID-19 cases last week even as the English top-flight season continues without pause despite a surge in infections across the country ...
EU drugs watchdog receives Astra-Oxford vaccine approval application (Update)
The European medicines regulator said on Tuesday it had received an application from AstraZeneca for the conditional approval of the drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine being developed along with the University ...
UK police to get tougher on lockdown rulebreakers, Boris in spot of bother
British police will get tougher on those who flout rules aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 and stricter measures could be brought in, the country’s top officer and ...
PayPal blocks site that supported Capitol violence; Twitter suspends 70,000 QAnon accounts
Social media sites and online services are blocking access to firms that supported those involved in the attack on the US Capitol last week.
PayPal Holdings Inc said on Monday ...
Another Chinese city goes into lockdown amid new COVID-19 threat
Authorities in China introduced new COVID-19 curbs in areas surrounding Beijing on Tuesday, putting 4.9 million residents under lockdown as new infections raised worries about a second wave in a nation ...
Trump privately blamed ‘Antifa people’ for storming U.S. Capitol
U.S. President Donald Trump has privately blamed ‘Antifa people’ for storming the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, even though clear video and documentary evidence shows the rioters were overwhelmingly ...
Man United face Liverpool in FA Cup (full draw)
Manchester United will host Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup after the two arch rivals were drawn together on Monday, with the game set to be played ...
West Ham scrape 1-0 FA Cup win at Stockport
West Ham United laboured into the FA Cup fourth round after a late Craig Dawson header gave them a 1-0 win at National League (fifth tier) site Stockport County on ...
Turkey, Greece to resume suspended talks over disputed waters on Jan. 25
Turkey and Greece will resume long-suspended exploratory talks over territorial claims in the Mediterranean Sea that brought them close to conflict last year, on Jan. 25 in Istanbul, the NATO members ...
Twitter tumbles as Trump ban puts social media in spotlight
Twitter Inc’s stock tumbled over 6% on Monday after its move to permanently suspend U.S. President Donald Trump‘s widely-followed account spurred concern among investors over the future regulation ...
Pope changes Church law to enshrine roles for women
Pope Francis, in another step towards greater equality for women in the Roman Catholic Church, on Monday changed its law to formally codify their roles as altar servers, distributors of ...
In second impeachment bid, Democrats accuse Trump of inciting insurrection
The U.S. House of Representatives expects to begin considering a second impeachment of Donald Trump on Wednesday, a top Democrat said on Monday after the president was formally accused ...
Oman to get its first crown prince in constitutional overhaul
Oman’s sultan announced on Monday a constitutional shakeup that includes the appointment of a crown prince for the first time and new rules on how parliament will work, state ...
Netanyahu orders advancement of West Bank settler housing projects
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered on Monday that plans be advanced to construct some 800 homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, an official statement said.
The announcement ...
US to designate Yemen’s Houthi movement as terrorist group
The United States plans to designate Yemen’s Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, a move that diplomats and aid groups worry could ...
Spurs to play Fulham on Wednesday after Villa game called off
Tottenham Hotspur’s Premier League match at Aston Villa on Wednesday has been postponed due to a number of COVID-19 cases at the Midlands club, with Spurs now set to ...
Putin hosts first post-war talks between leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday brought together the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for the first time since a war last year over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, an effort to ...
EasyJet secures new five-year $1.87 billion loan with UK guarantee
British airline easyJet has boosted its liquidity through a new five-year loan facility of $1.87 billion, backed by a partial guarantee from Britain, helping to ease concerns about its finances as ...
Turkey probes Facebook’s move to collect WhatsApp data
The Turkish Competition Board said on Monday it launched an investigation into WhatsApp and its owner Facebook Inc after the messaging app asked users to agree to let Facebook collect ...