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England's third national lockdown has legally come into force, with MPs set to vote retrospectively on it later. The measures, which include a stay-at-home order and the closure of schools to most pupils, were announced…
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Irish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65. A family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly "passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home" on 1 January. Mr…
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The EU has begun a co-ordinated vaccine rollout to fight Covid-19, in what the bloc's top official says is a "touching moment of unity". European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Saturday the…
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A former associate of deceased US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been placed under formal investigation and remanded in custody in France on suspicion of sex crimes. French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel…
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Europe is in meltdown again as daily Covid death tolls reach record highs and countries scramble to expand testing and rescue hospital systems that are buckling under the pressure. Health experts warn that despite hopeful news with a …
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Talks to reach a post-Brexit trade deal have been paused, because UK and EU negotiators say "significant divergences" remain. Michel Barnier and David Frost said conditions for a deal between the two sides have not been…
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France's Muslim Council is due to meet President Emmanuel Macron this week, to confirm the text of a new "charter of republican values" for imams in the country to sign. The Council (CFCM), which represents nine separate…
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Hungary and Poland's veto of the bloc's pandemic recovery fund could cause unemployment levels to explode. According to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), 40 million people have benefited from temporary unemployment schemes…
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The trial of the men accused of murdering Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018 has resumed in Turkey. Twenty Saudi officials, who are not in Turkey, are being tried in absentia. A prominent critic of Crown…
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If the diplomatic spat between Portugal and the United States is anything to go by, Lisbon will be a..
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