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Britain ends long Brexit journey with economic break from EU

EU-UK trade talks floundering over fish as cutoff day nears

10:16 pm December 20, 2020

Brussels: Deep into a crucial weekend of negotiations, a breakthrough on fishing rights remained elusive for the European Union and Britain, leaving both without a trade agreement that would dull the edge of a chaotic, costly economic break on New Years Day. With hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake throughout the economy, the tiny sector of fisheries continued […]

Several EU nations halt UK flights, fearing virus variant

10:13 pm December 20, 2020

Berlin: The German government said on Sunday it was planning to restrict travel to and from Britain because of the new coronavirus variant. A government spokesman said Germany is working on a regulation to restrict travel between Germany and Britain to protect the country from the new coronavirus variant. The government said it was in contact with […]

Several EU nations halt UK flights, fearing virus variant

8:18 pm December 20, 2020

Berlin: Several European Union nations on Sunday banned flights from the UK and Germany was considering limiting such flights to make sure that a new strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern England does not establish a strong foothold on the continent. The Netherlands banned flights from the U.K. for at least the rest of the […]

Italy enters strict 3-day lockdown over Easter

Pandemic exposes vulnerability of Italy’s ‘new poor’

2:32 pm December 20, 2020

Milan: The coronavirus pandemic did not produce Elena Simone’s first budgetary rough patch.The 49-year-old single mother found herself out of the job market when the 2008 global financial crisis hit Italy and never fully got back in, but she created a patchwork of small jobs that provided for herself and the youngest of her three children. That […]

German court upholds tree-felling ban at Tesla plant site

11:32 pm December 19, 2020

Berlin: A German court ruled Saturday that automaker Tesla has to stop clearing trees on some parts of the site outside Berlin where it is building the company’s first electric car factory in Europe. The top administrative court in the Berlin-Brandenburg region upheld an earlier temporary ban on the clearing of the forested site after […]