Trump to blame for death of woman trampled in Capitol riot, family member says
The brother-in-law of a woman killed during Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob seeking to overturn President Donald Trump’s election loss said he blames ...
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As impeachment looms, Pelosi urges military to keep Trump from nuclear codes
As Democrats in the House of Representatives on Friday prepared to impeach President Donald Trump again if he does not step down, their leader Nancy Pelosi spoke to the top ...
Greece extends some Covid lockdown curbs until Jan 18
Greece on Friday extended some lockdown curbs to contain the spread of the coronavirus until Jan. 18, Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias said in a televised briefing.
The country, in ...
UK sees record daily Covid deaths, London hospitals on brink
The United Kingdom recorded its highest daily death toll on Friday since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as London declared a major incident, warning that its hospitals were at ...
Managing under pressure makes Chelsea job more exciting, says Lampard
Chelsea manager Frank Lampard says his team’s recent poor run of results makes his job at Stamford Bridge more exciting and gives him an opportunity to learn more about ...
Denmark developing digital Covid-19 ‘vaccine passport’
Denmark is developing a digital “vaccine passport” for people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine, a move that may enable them to travel to countries where such documentation is required ...
Villa cleared to face Liverpool in FA Cup but Premier League games in doubt
Aston Villa’s FA Cup third round tie at home to Liverpool on Friday will go ahead as planned but Wednesday’s Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur is in ...
EU gives go ahead to extract more shots from each Pfizer vaccine vial
Europe’s medicines regulator gave the go-ahead on Friday for an extra sixth dose to be extracted from Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine vials, increasing the number of available shots at a ...
FIFA to trial concussion substitutes at Club World Cup
FIFA will trial concussion substitutes at next month’s Club World Cup in Qatar, soccer’s world governing body said on Friday.
The decision comes after the game’s rule-making ...
China simulates possible Tokyo atmosphere to train athletes
China’s huge army of Olympic athletes are preparing behind closed doors for this year’s Tokyo Games, simulating the kind of atmosphere they might experience in Japan, the Xinhua ...
Power struggle leaves UN rights body without leader
Russia and China are opposed to a candidate from Fiji seen as a staunch human rights defender to lead the top U.N. rights body, diplomats and observers say, creating ...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveil underground missile base
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards unveiled an underground missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location on Friday, Iranian state media reported, at a time of heightened tension between Tehran and ...
Israel, Ukraine tighten lockdown measures, Orban slams Brussels
Israel tightened a national lockdown on Friday in a bid to curb a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising that all Israeli adults could ...
EU secures nearly half of Pfizer’s 2021 global output of Covid shots
The European Union reached a deal with Pfizer and BioNTech for 300 million additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine, the head of the European Commission said on Friday, in a move ...
UK Transport minister: Vaccine might not work against S.African variant
British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Friday there were concerns that COVID-19 vaccines might not work properly against the highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus discovered in South Africa.
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EU may ask too high a price for financial services trade, BoE warns
Britain should not submit to the European Union’s financial services rules just to get better access to the bloc’s market after Brexit, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey ...
Democrats inch toward second Trump impeachment after Capitol siege
Congressional Democrats were moving closer to a historic step on Friday as they weighed impeaching President Donald Trump for a second time, two days after his false claims of election ...
England to require travellers to show negative Covid tests
Britain’s government will require people entering England to present a negative COVID-19 test result on arrival starting next week to protect against new strains of the coronavirus from other ...
EU citizens will be banned from using ID cards to enter UK from October
European Union citizens will be banned from using ID cards to enter Britain from October amidst growing concern about the proliferation of fake European IDs, the Telegraph reported on Thursday.
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S. Africa’s plan to record all babies’ biometrics raises privacy fears
Plans to photograph and fingerprint every baby born in South Africa for a digital register could lead to data leaks and identity theft without robust safeguards, rights experts said on ...
Elon Musk leaves behind Amazon’s Bezos to become world’s richest person
Tesla Inc chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk surpassed Amazon.com Inc’s top boss Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest man, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
“How ...
British health minister defends decision to space COVID-19 vaccine doses
Britain’s move to delay the second doses of COVID-19 vaccines will help save lives as more people will be able to get some initial protection, health minister Matt Hancock ...
Insight – How security failures enabled Trump mob to storm US Capitol
The bloody chaos inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday came after the police force that protects the legislative complex was overrun by a mob of Trump supporters in what ...
Some Trump supporters expected in court
The first round of President Donald Trump’s supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a brazen attack on the seat of government were due in court to face ...