UK vaccine set to begin with queen in line for jab
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, reports on Sunday said, as the biggest immunisation programme in UK history...
Erdogan hopes France will get rid of Macron ‘trouble’ soon
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said France should get rid of the “burden” caused by President Emmanuel Macron, as the EU prepares to...
France targets mosques in crackdown on radical Islam
French authorities will inspect dozens of mosques and prayer halls suspected of radical teachings starting Thursday as part of a crackdown on Islamist extremists...
What’s behind China’s bullying of Australia? It sees a soft target — and an essential one
As the diplomatic fallout continues over the digitally altered war crimes tweet sent by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, earlier this week, it’s...
North Yorkshire Police includes hijab, headscarves in police uniforms
North Yorkshire Police in the UK have included headscarf and hijab in its uniform to facilitate female Muslim police officers. The development came in...
UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for rollout from ‘next week’
Britain on Wednesday became the first Western country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine for general use as it announced a rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech's drug...
Australia PM slams Chinese official’s ‘repugnant’ tweet
Australia's prime minister angrily denounced a "repugnant", "outrageous" and "appalling" tweet from a top Chinese government spokesman Monday and demanded Beijing formally apologise. Chinese foreign...
COVID-19 vaccines finally here: What’s next though?
Less than a year after an unknown coronavirus that has claimed 1.4 million lives began spreading across the globe, a number of highly promising...
France goes against US demands and will impose digital tax
France will enforce a new digital levy for online technology giants this year, breaking a truce with Washington over the long-running tax fight that...
French users sue Muslim prayer app over alleged US army links
French users of a Muslim prayer app accused of selling data that ended up with the US army are suing the company, their lawyers...
France accuses Russia, Turkey of feeding hostility in Africa
President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia and Turkey of promoting anti-France sentiment in Africa, in an interview published Friday where he sought to defend his...
Australian special forces ‘unlawfully killed’ 39 in Afghanistan
Australia's elite special forces "unlawfully killed" 39 Afghan civilians and prisoners, including summary executions as part of initiation rituals, according to evidence in a...