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Is Canada’s ‘me first’ COVID vaccine policy hurting other nations?
Dec 23, 2020 06:51A recent report by the rights group stated that all of Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccines and 96 percent of Pfizer-BioNtech’s vaccine doses have been secured by rich countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Are new coronavirus strains cause for concern?
Dec 23, 2020 06:46Reports from Britain and South Africa of new coronavirus strains that seem to spread more easily are causing alarm, but virus experts said it’s unclear if that’s the case or whether they pose any concern for vaccines or cause more severe disease.
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Calls for national lockdown in England to curb spread of new Covid strain
Dec 23, 2020 06:38Boris Johnson is facing intense pressure to impose another national lockdown within days, as more than 40 countries banned arrivals from the UK in an effort to keep out a new fast-spreading variant of coronavirus.
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Tory grandees’ fury over Johnson’s ‘nationalist’ no-deal Brexit
Dec 16, 2020 10:50Boris Johnson faced a rising tide of anger from senior Tories and business leaders recently as he appeared ready to embrace a no-deal Brexit and prepared Royal Navy gunboats to defend UK fishing waters.
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No Deal Brexit: Why UK claims it is not scared by 'worst-case scenario'
Dec 12, 2020 11:22Mark Garnett, a politics professor at Lancaster University suggested the UK will be worse off under any post-Brexit economic arrangement with the EU. He does not believe the Leavers who claim Britain will quickly recover and end up being stronger economically.
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UK’s 2030 carbon target set to disappoint green campaigners
Dec 11, 2020 16:26The UK is to host vital UN climate talks — called Cop26 – in Glasgow next November, postponed by a year by the pandemic, at which all nations will be expected to come forward with national plans on emissions. Known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), these plans for carbon curbs by 2030 are the bedrock of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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The potential impact of Brexit without a trade deal
Dec 10, 2020 17:39The EU is Britain’s biggest trading partner, accounting for 47% of its trade in 2019. It had a trade deficit of 79 billion pounds ($106 billion) with the EU, a surplus of 18 billion in services outweighed by a deficit of 97 billion pounds in goods. Even with a Brexit trade deal, Britain’s reasonable worst-case scenario is that 7,000 trucks bound for the continent could stack up in the southern English county of Kent.
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Tory party's praise of Macron's ugly politics is shocking
Dec 02, 2020 07:48Two rising stars of the UK Conservative Party see Macron as a model which shows how deeply institutional Islamophobia is embedded in the party. Tory party's praise of Macron's ugly politics is shocking.
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UK government blacklisted journalists over freedom of information requests
Nov 28, 2020 05:47The UK government has created a potentially unlawful "blacklist" of the names of people seeking information under the country's Freedom of Information Act, two investigative journalists have discovered. The names of charity workers, campaigners and journalists have been entered on the list without their knowledge, in an apparent breach of the UK's privacy laws.
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UK government's undermining of EHRC is a threat to democracy
Nov 15, 2020 14:16The UK government actively subverts democratic scrutiny by undermining independent bodies like the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) through a politicized appointments process.