Negotiations between the Spanish and British governments on post-Brexit trade have run up against a hurdle, namely arrangements around Gibraltar, said Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya. The southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula has been British since 1713. Madrid and London are still negotiating law enforcement around the […]
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Nikkei Starts Higher to Last Week of 2020
The Japanese stock market started the last week of the troubled 2020 corona year with a profit on Monday. The news that US President Donald Trump has nevertheless signed the corona support package for the US economy caused investors relief. The further roll-out of the corona vaccine in Europe […]
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All Top Tennis Players Have Registered for the Australian Open
The world’s top ten men and women in professional tennis have registered for the Australian Open. The organization reported this. Roger Federer is also there, the twenty-time grand slam winner who is recovering from knee surgery. The American Serena Williams, who is still chasing the record of 24 grand […]
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Israel to the Polls for the Fourth Time in Two Years
Israelis must go to the polls for the fourth time in two years next spring. The Likud and Blue and White coalition parties failed to reach a budget agreement on Tuesday. The current Knesset will, therefore, be dissolved automatically. A bill to give the parties of Prime Minister Benjamin […]
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Trump: US Government Only Needs to Build Beautiful Buildings
With just under a month to go in the White House, US President Donald Trump has decided with a presidential decree that the federal government can only build “beautiful” buildings. Trump prefers the neoclassical architectural style. The final version of the decree is a milder version of the draft […]
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British Government Meets Today for Crisis Talks
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government are holding crisis talks on Monday as more and more countries are banning flights from the United Kingdom. Freight transport is high on the agenda, his spokeswoman said. In connection with the more contagious corona variant that the country has in its […]
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Emergency Authorization of the Second Corona Vaccine in US One Step Closer
A second corona vaccine will soon be on the market in the United States. A group of experts gave a positive recommendation on Thursday about the emergency authorization of the vaccine from the American company Moderna. The advice is intended for the American drug watchdog FDA, which wants to […]
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FDA: Some Vials of Pfizer’s Corona Vaccine Contain Extra Doses
The US drug watchdog FDA states that some vials of Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s corona vaccine contain more content than initially intended and that those doses can be used, reports news site Politico. As a result, more people can be vaccinated with the current amount of vaccine fluid than expected. […]
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Canadian Criticism of Tehran Plane Crash Investigation
Iran has not researched the downing of a passenger plane well enough, and many questions remain unanswered. This is stated in a Canadian report on the air disaster with 176 deaths near the Iranian capital Tehran. Iranian air defence fired a Boeing 737 from Ukraine International Airlines in January. […]
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Cyberattack on the US Discovered by Hacked Cybersecurity Company
The major cyber attack on the US government’s computer networks was discovered when cybersecurity company FireEye started investigating a hacking attack on its own network. FireEye found a problem with the software of supplier SolarWinds, of which the American government is also a customer. Russian hackers are said to […]