AFP China has imposed sanctions on nine UK citizens – including five MPs – for spreading what it called “lies and disinformation” about the country. It comes in retaliation for measures taken by the UK government on Monday over human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority group. Sir Iain Duncan Smith is among the
Month: March 2021
Tatiana Fernandez for BuzzFeed News Yocairi Amarante Rodríguez at her home in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Yocairi Amarante Rodríguez was heading to a beauty salon in Santo Domingo last fall when two men on a motorcycle sped up to her car and chucked a container of “ácido del diablo,” containing
Reuters The vaccine producer AstraZeneca must “catch up” on its promised deliveries to the EU before exporting doses elsewhere, the bloc’s chief has said. “The company… has to honour the contract it has with member states,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday. She spoke after EU leaders held a summit to
PA Media Pub goers could be asked to provide a vaccine certificate, Boris Johnson has told MPs, saying it “may be up to individual publicans”. A review is looking into whether people should have to prove they have been vaccinated, as lockdown measures ease. A government source told the BBC that the option of allowing
EPA The European Commission has proposed tougher controls on Covid vaccine exports after it accused UK-Swedish firm AstraZeneca of failing to honour its contract to supply EU countries. The plans, to go before EU leaders on Thursday, stop short of a ban but could enflame tensions with the UK. Any shipment would be assessed on
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Reuters The government has promised to allow all “genuine” asylum seekers to remain in the UK indefinitely, while removing people “with no right to be here”. Home Secretary Priti Patel also pledged to bring in “rigorous” age checks to stop adults entering the country by pretending to be children. And she said convicted people smugglers
PA Media The country has endured a year-long “epic of endurance and privation” since the first coronavirus lockdown, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. But “step by step, jab by jab”, the nation is on the path to “reclaiming our freedoms”, he told a news briefing. Speaking a year after tough Covid restrictions were introduced,
Results from AstraZeneca’s key US trial of its COVID-19 vaccine, issued by press release on Monday morning, exceeded experts’ expectations. But less than a day later, US health officials questioned the results, which still have not been released in full. In a trial involving more than 32,000 volunteers, about two-thirds of whom received the vaccine,
Getty Images The UK is marking one year since the first coronavirus lockdown was announced. On 23 March 2020 Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19. Since then, the UK’s official death toll has risen from 364 to 126,172. With the lockdown have come tough restrictions on socialising, closures of schools, pubs
Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared of breaching the ministerial code over her involvement in the Alex Salmond saga. An independent inquiry by senior Irish lawyer James Hamilton had been examining whether the first minister misled the Scottish Parliament over what she knew and when. His report said Ms Sturgeon had given an “incomplete narrative of
Getty Images Boris Johnson is expected to speak to his EU counterparts this week as a row over Covid vaccine supplies continues. EU leaders will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday to discuss a ban on Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine exports to the UK – but the PM aims to put the UK’s case in one-on-one phone
Protesters have attacked police after thousands of people turned up to a demonstration that officers had “strongly advised” against attending. Officers suffered broken bones and police vans were set alight as angry scenes unfolded in Bristol city centre. Crowds had gathered for the Kill the Bill demonstration in opposition to the Police and Crime Bill.
PA Media A new Royal Navy surveillance ship is to be built to protect “critical” undersea cables. The Ministry of Defence said the cables, which are “vital to the global economy and communications between governments”, are at “risk of sabotage” due to “submarine warfare”. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the new ship will protect critical
Vilhelm Gunnarsson / Getty Images After a series of earthquakes in Iceland, the long-dormant volcano Fagradalsfjall erupted on Friday night. The volcano is located nearly 40 miles outside of Reykjavik, the nearest city and the country’s capital, and didn’t threaten any lives or infrastructure damage. “Currently, gas pollution is not expected to cause much discomfort
PA Media Friday was a record day for Covid vaccinations in the UK, with a combined 711,156 first and second doses given to members of the public. It means that half of all UK adults – some 26,853,407 people – have now received a first dose of a vaccine. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the