Thu 13 May 2021: China’s Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng said on Thursday that Beijing supports a proposal by the World Trade Organization for an intellectual property protection waiver on COVID-19 vaccines to enter the consultation stage. British and European Union officials have been skeptical about the usefulness of a US proposal to waive patent […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: France’s interior minister asked police to ban a pro-Palestinian protest in Paris this weekend over the conflict with Israel fearing a repeat of clashes during a similar situation in 2014. Earlier on Thursday, a peaceful rally in support of Palestine was held in Paris’s Place de la Republique. It involved several […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron admitted on Thursday that he was paid a “generous amount” of money to lobby for the now collapsed financial firm Greensill Capital, but refused to put a figure on his annual salary. “I was paid an annual amount, a generous annual amount, far more than […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: The Nobel Committee has included Russian President Vladimir Putin in the list of candidates for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, which currently comprises 286 people, Russian writer Sergey Komkov, who nominated Putin for the prize, told Sputnik. The writer said that he sent a related application to the Nobel Committee in […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: More than a quarter of adults in the European Union would be unlikely to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was offered to them, a survey published on Thursday showed. The results also suggested a strong link between vaccine hesitancy and the use of social media, particularly where social media is […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: The Duke of Edinburgh who died on April 9th was married to the Queen for more than 70 years (File Photo) Britain’s Royal Mail invited orders on Thursday for four new stamps in memory of Prince Philip, the late husband of Queen Elizabeth, who died last month. The stamps, which will […]
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Wed 12 May 2021: The commercial air traffic in the European Union has not recovered from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying travel restrictions in early 2021, including last month, Eurostat, the EU’s official statistics bureau, said on Wednesday. According to the bureau, last April the industry suffered a 91-percent drop in air […]
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Wed 12 May 2021: COVID certificates should be only a temporary measure in the European Union, as they can promote tourism in the current situation, but in principle this is an obstacle to free travel, European Tourism Association CEO Tom Jenkins said in an interview with Sputnik. “It is going to be done. Will it […]
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Wed 12 May 2021: The tiny Pacific nation of Nauru has congratulated itself for a “world record” COVID-19 vaccination drive which resulted in all its adult population receiving their first jab. The remote island nation, one of the few places in the world to remain virus-free, said the four-week vaccination campaign had exceeded expectations. It said 7,392 […]
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Tue 11 May 2021: The European Commission has launched a second lawsuit against UK-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca over the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, Stefan De Keersmaecker, a spokesperson or the EU executive, said on Tuesday. During a press briefing, De Keersmaecker said that the second case, which follows an initial lawsuit launched in late April, […]
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