World / Europe

Italy extends COVID-19 Green Pass to trains, planes, ferries and coaches 01 Sep 2021 - 02:08 pm

ROME: Italy broadened usage of its Green Pass health document on Wednesday, making it obligatory for people to have it when travelling on...

With masks and tests, stars return to Venice for 'sold out' film fest 01 Sep 2021 - 10:38 am

VENICE: The Venice film festival opens on Wednesday with a rich line-up and the return of Hollywood stars who had largely deserted it...

Italy’s Di Maio denounces 'climate of hatred' against vaccination campaign 31 Aug 2021 - 10:12 pm

ROME - Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio on Tuesday denounced a "climate of hatred" against the COVID-19 vaccination campaign after receiving death...

Russian Olympic medallists made to quarantine before meeting Putin, athlete says 31 Aug 2021 - 08:10 pm

MOSCOW - Russian Olympic medallists are being made to quarantine for a week after returning from the Tokyo Games so that they can...

Geronimo the alpaca euthanised in Britain despite public outcry 31 Aug 2021 - 03:31 pm

London: British vets have killed an eight-year-old alpaca, whose fate triggered an outcry against Prime Minister Boris Johnson after the government ordered the...

EU says it has reached goal of vaccinating 70% of adults 31 Aug 2021 - 02:46 pm

BRUSSELS: The European Commission said on Tuesday that 70% of the European Union's adult population had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, hitting a...

EU ministers meet to discuss Afghanistan, refugees 31 Aug 2021 - 02:10 pm

BRUSSELS: European Union justice and home affairs ministers are meeting Tuesday to discuss the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and the flow of refugees...

Transplant for mushroom-poisoned Afghan boy; brother in coma 31 Aug 2021 - 12:49 pm

Warsaw: Doctors at Poland’s main children’s hospital said Tuesday that they will carry out a liver transplant on a 6-year-old Afghan boy who...

GSK, SK Bioscience to test Covid-19 vaccine against AstraZeneca shot 31 Aug 2021 - 09:27 am

Britain's GSK and South Korea's SK Bioscience said on Tuesday the drugmakers have begun a late-stage trial of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate to...

Lagging in COVID-19 vaccinations, Brussels takes vaccination campaign to shops 30 Aug 2021 - 08:03 pm

BRUSSELS - Health authorities in Brussels began offering COVID-19 jabs in supermarkets and shopping centres on Monday to increase vaccination rates in the...

EU drops US from list of COVID-safe countries for travel 30 Aug 2021 - 07:22 pm

BRUSSELS - European Union governments agreed on Monday to remove the United States from the EU's safe travel list, meaning U.S. visitors and...

Russia sees possible increase in West Nile virus cases this autumn 30 Aug 2021 - 03:05 pm

MOSCOW: Russia warned on Monday of a possible increase in West Nile virus infections this autumn as mild temperatures and heavy precipitation create...

Italian firefighters: No victims in 20-story building blaze 30 Aug 2021 - 02:45 pm

MILAN: Italian firefighters on Monday were tackling remaining hotspots and continuing to search a 20-story apartment building in Milan that was destroyed by...

Coronavirus booster shots 'not a luxury', WHO Europe head says 30 Aug 2021 - 02:08 pm

COPENHAGEN: A third-dose booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccination is a way to keep the most vulnerable safe and "not a luxury", the...

EU to seek to stop mass Afghanistan migration flows, draft statement says 30 Aug 2021 - 01:05 pm

BRUSSELS: European Union interior ministers will say on Tuesday they are determined to act to prevent uncontrolled migration from Afghanistan, according to a...

Greek police use tear gas, water canon during Athens vaccine protest 29 Aug 2021 - 10:03 pm

ATHENS - Greek police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse a group of people who threw flares and other objects during...

Thousands protest in Berlin against COVID curbs, vaccines 29 Aug 2021 - 07:47 pm

BERLIN - Several thousand people marched through the streets of Berlin on Sunday for a second day of unauthorised protest against coronavirus vaccinations...