Ireland is to ease quarantine restrictions on people travelling from abroad on July 20, with people from a "green list" of countries with low COVID-19 rates to be exempt from isolating themselves for 14 days, transport minister Eamon Ryan (...)
Indian TikTok users awoke Tuesday to a notice from the popular short-video app saying their data would be transferred to an Irish subsidiary, a response to India's ban on dozens of Chinese apps amid a military standoff between the two countries.
The (...)
Kenya was elected to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, defeating Djibouti in a second-round of voting by the 193-member General Assembly after an initial ballot failed to produce a clear winner.
Mexico, India, Ireland, Norway - who were elected (...)
كشفت الشبكة الأمريكية نتفليكس عن التريلر الرسمي للموسم الثالث من المسلسل الألماني الشهير Dark، والذي حقق شعبية كبيرة خلال الفترة الأخيرة بعد تداول عشاقه توقعات المسلسل لنهاية العالم وفقاً لحبكة المسلسل.
ونشرت الصفحة الرسمية للمسلسل الألماني التريلر (...)
Professional soccer leagues around Europe are gearing up for a return to action following the novel coronavirus stoppage, but some are more advanced than others. Here is a roundup of the state of play:
GERMANY
The Bundesliga restarted on May 16 with (...)
The United Kingdom's death toll from confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose by 77 to 40,542 as of 1600 GMT on June 6, according to government data published on Sunday.
Scotland and Northern Ireland earlier reported no COVID-19 deaths in the previous 24 (...)
For many weeks after the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic started, theatres worldwide have remained in a state of great confusion between cancelling shows and postponing them.
This state of confusion remained in place until many governments decided (...)
The United Kingdom's coronavirus death toll neared 50,000 on Tuesday, confirming its place as one of the worst hit countries in the world just as Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to ease the stringent novel coronavirus outbreak.
The toll now (...)
Britain moved to further ease lockdown restrictions on Monday despite warnings from some health officials that the risk of spreading COVID-19 was still too great.
Business Secretary Alok Sharma told the BBC that the government is taking action in (...)
Zoilo Patino was just one of more than 19,000 elderly people to die of coronavirus in Spain's nursing homes but he has come to symbolize a system of caring for the country's most vulnerable that critics say is desperately broken.
When the (...)
The United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll surpassed 47,000 on Tuesday, a dire human cost that could define the premiership of Boris Johnson.
The Office for National Statistics said 42,173 people had died in England and Wales with suspected COVID-19 (...)
Twitter may be the first big technology firm to face a fine by the EU's lead regulator under the region's tougher data protection rules after it submitted a preliminary decision in a probe into the social media firm to other member states.
Ireland's (...)
Britain will introduce a COVID-19 quarantine for travellers arriving from abroad from June 8, interior minister Priti Patel said on Friday, a measure that airlines have warned will devastate their industry.
All international arrivals, including (...)
Egypt has issued a joint statement with 16 countries demanding the elimination of nuclear weapons, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
The joint statement was also released to mark the (...)
During a visit to the central province of Kasserine, which has seen terrorist attacks in past years, on Saturday, Tunisian interior minister Hichem Mechichi declared that terrorists on Tunisia's border with Algeria had been successfully isolated and (...)
Europe reopened more widely on Monday, allowing people into the Acropolis in Athens, high-fashion boutiques in Italy, museums in Belgium, golf courses in Ireland and beer gardens in Bavaria. China announced it will give $2 billion to the fight (...)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted on Sunday that there was public frustration with his government's measures to ease the coronavirus lockdown following widespread criticism of the new rules, which he admitted were more complex.
As a poll (...)
The pound rose slightly against the dollar in early London trading on Tuesday but fell versus the euro as Britain waited for announcements about the furlough scheme and how the UK's plans to ease lockdown measures will affect the workforce.
At 1130 (...)
Two weeks ago, most Britons believed that Britain had outperformed Spain and Italy in tackling the coronavirus pandemic. But two weeks is a long time in politics, and now the majority believe that Britain's performance has been worse than that of (...)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Monday give details of how to get the economy back to work, after his attempt to plot a nuanced exit from the coronavirus lockdown prompted confusion, opposition and even satire across the United (...)
A top world health official Monday warned that countries are essentially driving blind in reopening their economies without setting up strong contact tracing to beat back flare-ups of the coronavirus.
The warning came as France and Belgium emerged (...)
Britain's coronavirus death toll has risen by 210 to 32,065, according to figures announced on Monday by the Department of Health.
The figures, collated by government agency Public Health England and equivalents in Wales, Northern Ireland and (...)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people on Sunday to "stay alert" to coronavirus risks, as he prepared to outline plans for gradually easing lockdown measures that have shuttered much of the economy for nearly seven weeks.
The government's (...)
British opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer said on Sunday Prime Minister Boris Johnson's statement on easing a lockdown to tackle the spread of the novel coronavirus raised more questions than it answered.
"This statement raises more questions (...)
Britain is to introduce a 14-day quarantine period for almost everyone arriving into the country to avoid a second peak of the coronavirus pandemic, The Times newspaper reported on Saturday.
It said Prime Minister Boris Johnson will say in an (...)
