Month: November 2021

Reuters Germany’s health minister has issued his starkest warning yet on the importance of getting vaccinated. “By the end of this winter everyone in Germany will either be vaccinated, recovered or dead,” Jens Spahn told a news conference in Berlin on Monday. Germany is in the grip of a fourth wave of coronavirus. Cases are

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police have said there were “some fatalities” after a car ploughed into a parade in Wisconsin. Footage posted online shows a red sports utility vehicle (SUV) driving through a Christmas parade in the city of Waukesha, west

GMP The taxi driver who survived the Liverpool bombing says it is a “miracle he is alive” and he is thankful no-one else was injured in “such an evil act”. David Perry was injured when a homemade device exploded shortly after he pulled up outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on 14 November. Iraq-born asylum seeker Emad

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fresh unrest has erupted in the Netherlands against new lockdown rules amid rising Covid-19 cases in Europe. People hurled fireworks at police and set fire to bicycles in The Hague, one night after protests in Rotterdam turned

Reuters The World Health Organization (WHO) is “very worried” about the spread of Covid-19 within Europe as the continent battles a fresh wave of infections. Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, regional director Dr Hans Kluge warned some 500,000 deaths could be recorded by March without urgent action. Dr Kluge said introducing measures like mask

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US President Joe Biden has said he is “angry” after a teenager who shot dead two men during racial unrest last year in Wisconsin was cleared. The president expressed dismay at the verdict in a written statement

Reuters Days after Austria imposed a lockdown on the unvaccinated, it has announced a full national Covid-19 lockdown starting on Monday. Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said it would last a maximum of 20 days and there would be a legal requirement to get vaccinated from 1 February 2022. He was responding to record cases numbers and

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There is “serious intent” in the EU to solve post-Brexit difficulties over the Northern Ireland border, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin has said. Speaking to the BBC, he said the “mood music” surrounding EU-UK negotiations had improved

The government has scrapped the Leeds leg of the HS2 high-speed rail line as part of a package that ministers promise will transform services. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has told the Commons the overhaul will bring faster journeys up to 10 years earlier than planned. HS2 trains were to run on a new East Midlands-Leeds

Getty Images A £96bn rail improvement programme will help transform services in the Midlands and northern England, the government has said ahead of the expected scrapping of part of the HS2 scheme. Local service upgrades, bringing faster journeys, will happen up to 10 years earlier than planned, ministers say. It comes as businesses reacted angrily

MOD A British F-35 fighter jet has crashed into the sea during a routine operation in the Mediterranean, the Ministry of Defence has said. The pilot ejected and has safely returned to the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and an investigation has begun, the MoD added. The incident occurred at 10:00 GMT over

PA Media Boris Johnson will face a raft of questions across Parliament later as a row about MPs’ second jobs continues to engulf Westminster. The spotlight has been shone on the additional roles held by MPs since Tory Owen Paterson was found to have broken lobbying rules as a paid consultant. The PM announced plans

Last updated on 6 minutes ago6 minutes ago.From the section Cricket English cricket is “institutionally” racist, says former Yorkshire player Azeem Rafiq. Rafiq, 30, told a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee that racist language was “constantly” used during his time at Yorkshire. In an emotional testimony, he also said the club gave him

Four men arrested under terrorism laws following a bomb explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Sunday have been released without charge. It comes after police named Emad Al Swealmeen as the man who died when a homemade device blew up in the back of a taxi shortly before 11.00 GMT. It is understood the 32-year-old

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Remembrance Sunday has been declared a terror incident by police. A taxi exploded and was engulfed in flames just before 11:00 GMT at a drop-off zone near the entrance, killing

Carl Bessant Three men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act after a man was killed in a car explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital. A taxi carrying one passenger pulled up just before 11:00 GMT – as a national two minutes’ silence for Remembrance Sunday was due to begin – and exploded. The passenger was