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BERLIN: Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union during the first quarter, the bloc's executive arm said Sunday. The new target of 40 million…

BRUSSELS: The European Union introduced tighter rules Friday on exports of Covid-19 vaccines that could hit shipments to nations like the United Kingdom, deepening a dispute with London over scarce supplies of potentially lifesaving…

GENEVA: Faced with Covid-19, wealthy countries must avoid repeating past mistakes of hoarding medicines and vaccines, the World Health Organization said Friday, warning such behaviour would only drag out the pandemic. WHO chief Tedros…

BERLIN: A global coronavirus vaccine rollout suffered a major blow Friday as Pfizer said it would delay shipments of the jabs in the next three to four weeks due to works at its key plant in Belgium. Pfizer said the modifications at the…

PARIS: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's father Stanley confirmed plans on Thursday to seek French citizenship as the free movement of Britons in the EU comes to an end under the Brexit pact delivered by his son. Speaking to…

BRUSSELS: The European Union on Tuesday demanded that China release citizen journalist Zhang Zhan and several other jailed reporters, lawyers and human rights champions. The EU statement was issued just ahead of Brussels signing a major…

Germany and Hungary began administering their first coronavirus vaccine shots on Saturday only hours after receiving their first shipments, upsetting the European Union’s plans for a coordinated rollout on Sunday across the bloc’s 27…

LONDON: Britain and the European Union, which were on the brink of announcing a post-Brexit trade deal on Thursday, have had an often troubled history. On August 9, 1961, Britain formally applies to join what was then called the European…

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have agreed to go the "extra mile" in their pursuit of a post-Brexit trade agreement after they spoke on Sunday, which was seen a hard…