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Vaccine failures cast shadow over EU summit as COVID-19 surges
Mar 26, 2021 00:12European Union leaders met on Thursday to discuss a coordinated path out of the COVID-19 pandemic as infections surge again in many of their countries, seeking agreement on how to ramp up supplies of vaccines after a feeble start to inoculation.
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UK must take practical steps to pay off debt to Iran: Defense minister
Mar 23, 2021 12:06Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said Britain must take practical steps to pay off its standing debt to Iran.
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US health agency raises 'concern' over AstraZeneca COVID vaccine trial data
Mar 23, 2021 09:22AstraZeneca may have used "outdated information" in the results of a large-scale COVID-19 vaccine trial, a US health agency said on Tuesday, casting fresh doubt on the shot, its potential US rollout and plunging its developers, once again, into controversy.
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Over dozen British MPs demand govt. to reconsider ties with Bahrain over rights abuses
Mar 20, 2021 15:31More than a dozen British lawmakers have called on the UK government to “reconsider its relationship with Bahrain” to pressure the Al Khalifah regime into releasing political prisoners as a heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy activists persists in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
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Kremlin blasts Britain's plan to increase nuclear weapons stockpile
Mar 17, 2021 14:21The Kremlin has regretted a recent decision by the United Kingdom to increase its nuclear warhead stockpile by more than 40 percent.
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Anti-police protest staged outside British parliament
Mar 17, 2021 04:17Protesters gathered outside the British parliament and the London police headquarters on Tuesday (March 16) for a fourth day of demonstrations against men's violence and heavy-handed policing in the wake of the murder of Londoner Sarah Everard.
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Iran decries British hypocrisy, urges global eradication of nukes
Mar 17, 2021 03:07Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has lambasted the British premiership’s “utter hypocrisy” over its accusatory remarks about Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program.
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Sweden and Venezuela become latest states to shun AstraZeneca vaccine over safety concerns
Mar 16, 2021 15:23After reports of abnormal blood clotting in recipients of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Sweden has become the latest European country to suspend the administration of the Oxford-made vaccine.
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UK police must explain themselves over unrest at vigil to mourn woman's murder: Minister
Mar 14, 2021 08:43London’s police force must explain its actions against people gathered at a vigil to mark the killing of a 33-year-old woman, home office minister Victoria Atkins said on Sunday, after an outcry over images of mourners being dragged away by officers.
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Call for justice, reforms continue a year after US police killing of Black nurse in Kentucky
Mar 14, 2021 05:18Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday a year after Breonna Taylor, a young Black woman, was shot six times and killed by White police officers.