BRITAIN

Broadcaster: Boris Johnson”s father seeks French citizenship

11:11 pm December 31, 2020

London : As Britain prepares to split from the European Union, the father of Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears to be seeking closer ties with the bloc by applying for French citizenship. Stanley Johnson told broadcaster RTL on Thursday that he was in the process of “reclaiming” his French identity. “It is not a question of becoming French. If I understand correctly, I am French. […]

Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine approved by UK regulator

2:54 pm December 30, 2020

London: The coronavirus vaccine designed by scientists at the University of Oxford and produced by AstraZeneca was on Wednesday approved for human use by the UK’s independent regulator. The approval by Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) means the vaccine is both safe and effective. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was already lining up thousands […]

India-UK flights to remain suspended till Jan 7: Puri

12:50 pm December 30, 2020

New Delhi: Passenger flights between the UK and India would remain suspended till January 7 and they will resume in a ”strictly regulated” manner thereafter, Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday The Civil Aviation Ministry had last week suspended all flights between the European country and India from December 23 to December 31 as a mutated variant […]

Millions face new UK virus restrictions; border chaos eases

11:45 pm December 26, 2020

London: Millions of people in the U.K. faced tough new coronavirus restrictions Saturday, with Scotland and Northern Ireland demanding tighter measures to try to halt a new variant of the virus that is believed to spread more quickly. Northern Ireland went into a six-week lockdown and in Wales, restrictions that were relaxed for Christmas Day […]

Millions more in tough post-Christmas lockdown in UK

6:22 pm December 26, 2020

London: Millions more people across different parts of the UK entered tougher lockdown restrictions from December 26, the day after Christmas marked annually as Boxing Day, as part of plans announced earlier this week to contain the rapid spread of a highly transmissible variant of coronavirus. Around six million people in east and south-east England […]