A Russian court has sentenced Alexey Navalny to jail over alleged parole violations in an embezzlement case dating back to 2014, which the Kremlin opponent argues is politically motivated.
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Britain is on a collision course with the EU over vaccine shortages after Brussels refused to accept that people in the UK have first claim on Oxford/AstraZeneca doses produced in local plants.
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The venerable cover CD, beloved of music magazine buyers for a generation, has been challenged by Brexit after Mojo was forced to postpone distribution of its next issue because of a delay in delivery.
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Brexit was never fundamentally an economic project. It was always more about what it said on the ballot paper in 2016. Brexit was about ceasing to be a member of the European Union. Leavers understood that. Remainers, in contrast, still struggle with it.
Read More | Lire La SuiteCovid: Flights shut down as EU discusses UK virus threat
EU officials are discussing a joint response to a new, more infectious Covid-19 variant in the UK, which has sparked travel bans by many countries.
Read More | Lire La SuiteCovid: Ireland, Italy, Belgium and Netherlands ban flights from UK
A number of European countries have banned, or are planning to ban, travel from the UK to prevent the spread of a more infectious coronavirus variant.
Read More | Lire La SuiteFor Europe, losing Britain is bad. Keeping Hungary and Poland could be worse
Brexit means Brexit” – the mantra of the former British prime minister Theresa May – deserves a place in philosophy textbooks as the most meaningless sentence ever to contain the word “means”. But let’s not fool ourselves..
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Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are trying to break the deadlock over a post-Brexit trade deal in Brussels.
Read More | Lire La SuiteCovid vaccine: UK woman becomes first in world to receive Pfizer jab
A 90-year-old woman has become the first patient in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine after its approval in the UK, where the NHS has launched its biggest vaccine campaign.
Read More | Lire La SuitePfizer ends COVID-19 vaccine trial with 95% success rate
Pfizer and BioNTech’s Phase 3 trial showed their vaccine to be 95% effective against COVID-19, will now seek FDA Emergency Use Authorization.
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