World / Europe

WHO advance team on way to China to set up probe into virus origin 10 Jul 2020 - 02:19 pm

GENEVA - An advance team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of...

Macron gives blessing to recreate Notre-Dame's gothic spire 10 Jul 2020 - 01:44 am

Paris - French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday gave his blessing to a faithful reconstruction of the spire of the fire-damaged Notre-Dame cathedral...

WHO promises 'honest evaluation' of how world handled COVID-19 09 Jul 2020 - 08:14 pm

GENEVA/ZURICH - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it was setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the...

Romania coronavirus patients discharge themselves from hospital 09 Jul 2020 - 07:09 pm

Bucharest - Hundreds of Romanian coronavirus patients have discharged themselves from hospital following a court ruling against mandatory hospitalisation as the country on...

Ten police injured in violent Belgrade protests 09 Jul 2020 - 01:08 pm

Belgrade: Ten police officers were injured during a second night of clashes in Belgrade with protesters angry over the government's handling of the...

France rules out 'total lockdown' in case of coronavirus surge 08 Jul 2020 - 09:46 pm

Paris - The French government said Wednesday it was girding for a possible surge in coronavirus cases in coming months but ruled out...

One dead and four injured in London crane collapse 08 Jul 2020 - 08:54 pm

LONDON - A person was killed and four others injured when a crane collapsed at a building site in Bow, east London, on...

Russian region near Mongolia testing rodents for plague 08 Jul 2020 - 07:59 pm

Moscow - Russia said Wednesday that a remote Far Eastern region near Mongolia had begun testing rodents for Bubonic plague after cases of...

Spain's Catalonia makes masks compulsory in public at all times 08 Jul 2020 - 07:53 pm

BARCELONA - Catalonia on Wednesday ordered all residents and visitors to wear face masks in public at all times, becoming the first Spanish...

UK tech firm Smiths to aid COVID-19 antibody test production 08 Jul 2020 - 02:41 pm

Technology firm Smiths Group said on Wednesday it would help produce a blood-based COVID-19 antibody test approved by the British healthcare regulator, another...

EU secures potential COVID-19 drugs from Roche, Germany's Merck: Source 08 Jul 2020 - 02:31 pm

Brussels: The European Commission has struck deals with drugmakers Roche and Merck KGaA to secure supplies of experimental treatments for COVID-19, a Commission...

Italy PM Conte says he will not accept 'weak compromise' on EU recovery fund 08 Jul 2020 - 12:11 am

LISBON - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Tuesday the European Union must act decisively to build a common response to the...

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte looks on during a joint news conference with his Portuguese counterpart Antonio Costa (not pictured) at Sao Bento Palace, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lisbon, Portugal, July 7, 2020. REU

Two killed in train collision in Czech Republic -emergency services 07 Jul 2020 - 09:46 pm

PRAGUE - At least two people were killed and 24 were injured when two trains collided in the northwest of the Czech Republic...

Serbia returns to weekend lockdown after virus surge 07 Jul 2020 - 09:04 pm

Belgrade - Serbia will reintroduce a weekend curfew as the Balkan state battles an "alarming" second surge of coronavirus cases, President Aleksandar Vucic...

Poor data obscures COVID-19 death toll at Spain's nursing homes 07 Jul 2020 - 08:48 pm

MADRID - The Spanish government is still not able to say how many nursing home residents have died because of the coronavirus, according...

WHO experts to travel to China at weekend to study COVID-19 origins 07 Jul 2020 - 07:44 pm

GENEVA - The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that experts from the global body would travel to China at the weekend to...

WHO acknowledges 'evidence emerging' of airborne spread of COVID-19 07 Jul 2020 - 07:25 pm

GENEVA - The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged "evidence emerging" of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus, after a group of...

Glaxo teams with Philip Morris-backed biotech on Covid vaccine 07 Jul 2020 - 06:57 pm

GlaxoSmithKline Plc is collaborating on an experimental Covid-19 vaccine with Medicago, a biotechnology company partly owned by tobacco giant Philip Morris International Inc....