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Italy plans 202 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

6:31 pm December 2, 2020

Rome: Italy’s health minister told lawmakers on Wednesday that Italy will distribute 202.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines during 2021 in “an unprecedented effort that will require a huge collective commitment.” Robert Speranza said the vaccines will not be mandatory, but that the doses allotted Italy through an EU collective purchasing agreement would be “enough to potentially […]

Britain ends long Brexit journey with economic break from EU

With a month until split, Brexit trade deal hangs in balance

6:24 pm December 1, 2020

London: The British government told businesses on Tuesday to make sure they are ready for big changes when the UK makes its final Brexit break from the European Union in exactly a month. But with negotiations on a free-trade deal with the bloc stuck, firms say they still don’t know key details of what those changes will be. Michael Gove, the […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Germany bans far-right, pro-Nazi group, police raid homes

3:22 pm December 1, 2020

Berlin: Police raided homes in three German states early Tuesday after the German government banned a far-right group, a spokesman for the interior ministry said. The homes of 13 members of the far-right group Wolfbrigade 44 were searched in Hesse, Mecklenburg West-Pomerania and North Rhine-Westphalia to confiscate the group’s funds and far-right propaganda material, the German news agency dpa reported. “Whoever […]

Men have 30 pc higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than women: Study

As the virus resurges, mental health woes batter France

2:55 pm December 1, 2020

Rouen: The panicked 22-year-old is led to Consultation Room No. 2, with its easy-mop floor and honeycombed meshing over the window. Behind her, the psychiatric emergency ward’s heavy double doors — openable only with a staff member’s key — thud shut. With anxious taps of her white sneakers, she confides to an on-duty psychiatrist how […]

Sweden acknowledges India’s role as ‘pharmacy of world’; says focusing on deeper ties in S&T

7:41 pm November 29, 2020

New Delhi: Acknowledging India‘s role as the “pharmacy to the world”, leading European nation Sweden said it is focusing on expanding bilateral cooperation in the areas of health and life sciences in view of the coronavirus pandemic. Swedish Ambassador Klas Molin also said Sweden and India stand “firmly and unequivocally” in the fight against terrorism […]