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Despite the COVID-19 pandemic nearly halting the travel industry, Croatia is seeing long queues of traffic building up along its border. In Istria, on the country’s border with Slovenia, drivers were made to wait up to three hours to be … Continue reading COVID-19 travel: Huge traffic jams to enter Croatia despite record number of new infections
With holidaymakers keen to go abroad this summer after months of lockdown, many are keeping an ear out for news of air bridges, which would permit them to travel without coronavirus restrictions. But what are they and are they a … Continue reading What are air bridges? And can they save your summer holiday?
Deaths due to COVID-19 have reached nearly 500,000 globally, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally. The grim milestone comes as health authorities warn that the pandemic is far from over and has made a comeback in regions that appeared … Continue reading Coronavirus: Global deaths near half a million while new clusters multiply in Europe
FILE PHOTO: 25th Critics Choice Awards – Arrivals – Santa Monica, California, U.S., January 12, 2020 – Kelly Clarkson. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/File Photo LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “American Idol” winner Kelly Clarkson, actor Zac Efron and British star Benedict Cumberbatch are … Continue reading Kelly Clarkson, Zac Efron to get stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson told France’s President Emmanuel Macron that talks on a post Brexit deal cannot drag on into the autumn, as the French leader visited London to mark the 80th anniversary of General de Gaulle’s … Continue reading Brexit deadline looms over day of Anglo-French solidarity
LONDON (Reuters) – Formula One mechanics could take twice as long to change an engine under new measures to protect them from COVID-19 and reliability will be key, according to Racing Point technical director Andrew Green. FILE PHOTO: Formula One … Continue reading F1 engine changes could take twice as long under new measures
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about police reform before signing an executive order on the issue in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis (Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) said … Continue reading Facebook takes down Trump ads over ‘organized hate’ policy
FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective face masks walk past the he Galeries Lafayette department store on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris as France softens its strict lockdown rules during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, May 11, … Continue reading New French coronavirus deaths steady, infections creep up
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will switch to the Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) model for its COVID-19 test-and-trace app, ditching an attempt to develop an app by itself after the homegrown system did not work well enough on Apple’s iPhone, … Continue reading UK ditches homegrown COVID-19 tracing app to use Google-Apple model
LONDON (Reuters) – Standing apart on either side of a strip of red carpet outside Number 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron demonstrated the unusual reality of international diplomacy in the coronavirus era. Macron’s … Continue reading Diplomacy in the time of coronavirus: Johnson and Macron trade bows, thumbs up
FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China, is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease … Continue reading Blood type, genes tied to risk of severe COVID-19: European study
LONDON (Reuters) – Vera Lynn, the singer who became a symbol of hope in Britain during World War Two and again during the coronavirus pandemic with her song “We’ll Meet Again”, died at the age of 103 on Thursday. Known … Continue reading Vera Lynn, voice of hope in wartime Britain, dies at 103
