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Myanmar diplomatic revolt against junta widens after violent crackdown
With tussles over diplomatic loyalties overseas, pro-democracy activists held more demonstrations in Myanmar on Friday to oppose the Feb. 1...
British budget to tackle virus fallout, aid recovery
Ahead of the budget statement in parliament, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative government said it would extend its furlough schem...
Russia says US playing 'with fire' by imposing sanctions
Washington on Tuesday imposed penalties in a coordinated action with the European Union as US intelligence concluded that Moscow orchestrat...
Vaccine passports, COVID’s next political flashpoint
The idea is to allow families to reunite, economies to restart and hundreds of millions of people who have received a shot to return to a d...
US concludes Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny, joins European Union in sanctions
In his first major action against Russia since taking office, President Joe Biden's administration said it was freezing any US assets and c...
CureVac says preliminary trials show COVID-19 vaccine effective against variants
Haas told EU lawmakers that the results of the preliminary trials on the vaccine's effects on variants would be published soon.
Google withdrawal threats risk antitrust backlash, says Margrethe Vestager
Vestager told the European Parliament's economy committee on Tuesday that there could be scope for “investigating if it’s actually legal fo...
G7 countries 'firmly condemn' Myanmar military attacks on protesters
"Use of live ammunition against unarmed people is unacceptable. Anyone responding to peaceful protests with violence must be held to accoun...
European Union weighs troubled Russia ties, fresh sanctions for jailing Opposition leader
Alexei Navalny, 44, an anti-corruption investigator and Putin's most prominent critic, was arrested in Moscow last month upon returning fro...
European Union hopes for early Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls
The comments by a spokesperson of the EU came a day after a number of top diplomats from the 27-member bloc returned from Jammu and Kashmir...
Johnson & Johnson seeks vaccine approval from European Union
In a statement on Tuesday, the Amsterdam-based medicines regulator for the European Union said it could issue an opinion by the middle of M...
Russia says it's open to better ties with European Union despite chill
Lavrov's statement followed his warning last week that Moscow was ready for a split with the 27-nation bloc if Brussels moves to introduce ...
European Union hopeful for firm economic growth despite virus challenges
European Union's executive body predicts that growth in the 19 nations using the euro will reach 3.8 per cent this year and next after a 6....
'Merciless' Russia may face new sanctions, says European Union
Josep Borrell said his visit last Friday to Moscow had cemented his view that Russia wanted to break away from Europe and divide the West, ...
India keen on investment, trade talks with European Union
Keen to accelerate investments, technology and capital flows from the EU, India wants the investment and trade deals to happen parallelly a...
European Union's top officials express relief as 'friend' replaces Donald Trump
Charles Michel, president of the European Council, said the moment should be seized to form a new "founding pact" between democratic powers.
Stunned European Union nations yearn for Biden presidency
President Obama joined the Paris climate pact but Trump unilaterally pulled out, much to the Europeans' dismay. The same goes for the WHO, ...
European Union nations kick off mass COVID-19 vaccinations
The vaccines, developed by Germany's BioNTech and American drugmaker Pfizer, started arriving in EU countries on Friday. The EU has seen so...
Timeline of events in Britain's exit from the European Union
Today the United Kingdom and European Union announced that they have struck a provisional agreement, just over a week before the year-end d...
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