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American President Joe Biden arrives in Brussels for talks with the EU on Tuesday.
Trade, tech and China: What's on the agenda for the EU-US summit?
BRUSSELS — The coronavirus pandemic, China, trade tariffs, tech regulation, climate change and democracy are set to top the agenda of the first EU-US summit under American President Joe Biden.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel will welcome Biden on Tuesday to discuss a variety of outstanding issues between the two Atlantic partners, some of which have strained the relation in the recent years.The high-level meeting comes just a few days after the G7, where Biden, von der Leyen and Michel met in person for the first time, and the NATO summit on Monday. The American president is determined to use his first foreign trip to form an alliance of like-minded partners to confront the rising power of China.Biden's intentions...
June 15, 2021

Trade, tech and China: What's on the agenda for the EU-US summit?

The United Kingdom announced on Tuesday that it had reached a 'historic' post-Brexit trade deal with Australia. — Courtesy photo
UK hails 'historic' post-Brexit trade deal with Australia
LONDON — The United Kingdom announced on Tuesday that it had reached a "historic" post-Brexit trade deal with Australia. It is the first agreement obtained by London that is not simply a renewal or adaptation of those that exist between the EU and other countries, according to a Downing Street statement. The main elements of the deal were agreed upon by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison during negotiations in London on Monday evening, Downing Street has confirmed. The final agreement will be published "in the coming days." "Today marks a new dawn in the UK’s relationship with Australia, underpinned by our shared history and common values," Johnson said in a statement. Downing Street said the agreement...
June 15, 2021

UK hails 'historic' post-Brexit trade deal with Australia


An eight-year-old child in Nouakchott, Mauritania, gives a thumbs-up after an awareness session on preventing COVID-19. — courtesy UNICEF/Raphael Pouget
COVID-19 cases drop for seventh week, but deaths fall less slowly: WHO
GENEVA — The number of new COVID-19 cases reported to the UN health agency has declined for seven weeks in a row, in what the top official there called on Monday “the longest sequence of weekly declines during the pandemic so far”.However, while weekly cases are at their lowest since February, “deaths are not falling as quickly”, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), told journalists in Geneva.“The number of deaths reported last week was similar to the previous week, and the global decline masks a worrying increase in cases and deaths in many countries,” he explained.Africa ‘especially concerning’ With the least access to vaccines, diagnostics and oxygen supplies for the critically ill, a steep increase in Africa is...
June 15, 2021

COVID-19 cases drop for seventh week, but deaths fall less slowly: WHO

Coronavirus vaccines are “highly effective” in preventing hospital admission with the Delta variant of the disease, according to new data from Public Health England (PHE). — Courtesy file photo
Coronavirus vaccines ‘highly effective’ in preventing Delta variant hospitalizations
LONDON — Coronavirus vaccines are “highly effective” in preventing hospital admission with the Delta variant of the disease, according to new data from Public Health England (PHE). The findings suggest that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 96 percent effective against hospitalization after two doses while the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is 92 percent effective against hospitalization after both doses.Further work remains underway to establish the level of protection against mortality from the Delta variant. However, as with other variants, this is expected to be high, PHE said in a statement.The analysis included 14,019 cases of the Delta variant —166 of whom were hospitalized — between April 12 and June 4, looking at emergency hospital admissions in England.Public Health England...
June 15, 2021

Coronavirus vaccines ‘highly effective’ in preventing Delta variant hospitalizations

US President Joe Biden spoke about his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Brussels as the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) alliance wrapped up their summit on Monday. — Courtesy file photo
Biden says US will respond if Russia continues 'harmful activities'
BRUSSELS — US President Joe Biden spoke about his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Brussels as the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) alliance wrapped up their summit on Monday.NATO, a military alliance of North American and European countries, came into existence in the aftermath of World War II to counter the Soviet Union. Biden is set to meet with his Russian counterpart on June 16 in Geneva in their first face-to-face meeting since the US president took office.Biden's press conference comes ahead of a US-EU summit on Tuesday where the US president is set to meet with European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen and Council President Charles Michel. He is expected to discuss subjects ranging from trade to climate change...
June 14, 2021

Biden says US will respond if Russia continues 'harmful activities'

The United Kingdom's plan to lift all COVID-19 restrictions on June 21 has been scuppered by the Delta variant of the virus, Boris Johnson said on Monday. — Courtesy file photo
UK PM extends COVID-19 restrictions by 4 weeks as variant stunts vaccine rollout
LONDON — The United Kingdom's plan to lift all COVID-19 restrictions on June 21 has been scuppered by the Delta variant of the virus, Boris Johnson said on Monday.Despite the UK's successful vaccine rollout, which has given two doses to more than half of the adult population, the prevalence of the Delta variant — first identified in India — has convinced the Prime Minister and his government that "freedom day" for English citizens, as some have called it, must be delayed by four weeks to July 19.The variant is growing in the UK at 7 percent week on week and the government fears that if restrictions were to be fully lifted next Monday, then hospitalizations could rise to the levels seen in the country's first wave.The four-week gap will allow the government to...
June 14, 2021

UK PM extends COVID-19 restrictions by 4 weeks as variant stunts vaccine rollout

Presidents of the three European Union institutions, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission Monday attended the official signing ceremony for the Regulation on the EU Digital COVID Certificate, marking the end of the legislative process.
EU leaders clear way for the Digital COVID Certificate
BRUSSELS — Presidents of the three European Union institutions, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission Monday attended the official signing ceremony for the Regulation on the EU Digital COVID Certificate, marking the end of the legislative process.In a joint statement, European Parliament Presidents David Sassoli, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister of Portugal Antonio Costa said that "the EU Digital COVID Certificate is a symbol of what Europe stands for."In their statement, the officials said that they agreed on the EU Digital COVID Certificate regulation in a record time of 62 days, they worked through the legislative process, and built the technical backbone of the system, and were able to issue the EU...
June 14, 2021

EU leaders clear way for the Digital COVID Certificate

File photo of shops in Oxford Street, London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on Monday expected to announce that England's remaining COVID-19 restrictions will not be lifted on June 21 as planned.
Johnson expected to announce delay to full reopening in England
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on Monday expected to announce that England's remaining COVID-19 restrictions will not be lifted on June 21 as planned.Johnson told British media from the G7 summit in Cornwall on Sunday that the government "is looking at the data"."The road map was always cautious but irreversible and in order to have an irreversible road map, we've got to be cautious," he added.Foreign Minister Dominic Raab stressed that the government doesn't "want to yo-yo back in and out of measures" during an interview with the BBC on Sunday."We've got to be data and evidence-driven," he went on, highlighting that the "critical link" between transmissions and hospitalizations" is "probably...
June 14, 2021

Johnson expected to announce delay to full reopening in England

Thousands of right-wing protesters took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday against the Spanish government's plans to pardon 12 Catalan politicians who were convicted over a failed independence attempt in 2017.
Thousands protest in Madrid at plans to pardon Catalan separatists
MADRID — Thousands of right-wing protesters took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday against the Spanish government's plans to pardon 12 Catalan politicians who were convicted over a failed independence attempt in 2017.The Spanish nationalist Vox party, centrist Ciudadanos and conservative People's Party were among those rallying in Colon Square.Leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, said: “The pardons are, first of all, a betrayal to all the Catalans who suffered the separatist coup of 2017 and who were abandoned to the mercy of separatism. It is also an act of betrayal to all the Spanish people who respect law and the constitution."In 2019 Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatists on sedition charges for their part in organizing an unauthorized referendum on...
June 14, 2021

Thousands protest in Madrid at plans to pardon Catalan separatists

G7 leaders plenary: Building back better from COVID19, Cornwall, UK. — courtesy Karwai Tang/G7 Cornwall 2021
Landmark G7 agreement pledges 870 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, half by end-2021
GENEVA — A senior UN official welcomed on Sunday, the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialized nations’ commitment to immediately share at least 870 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, supporting global access and helping to end the acute phase of the pandemic.“Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines represents the clearest pathway out of this pandemic for all of us — children included, and commitments announced by G7 members...are an important step in this direction”, Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, said in a statement.Building on the momentum of the G20 Global Health Summit and the Gavi COVAX AMC Summit, in a landmark agreement at the G7 Summit — under way in Cornwall, United Kingdom — the global leaders made the pledge, with the aim...
June 13, 2021

Landmark G7 agreement pledges 870 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, half by end-2021

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