Valneva begins manufacturing vaccine candidate in Scotland
French biotech Valneva has started manufacturing its vaccine candidate in Scotland, the U.K. government announced Thursday. The move follows a multi-million-pound joint investment in the facility in...
View ArticleUK secures 40M more doses of Valneva vaccine
The U.K. has signed a deal to secure 40 million extra doses of Valneva’s coronavirus vaccine candidate, in addition to the 60 million it had already agreed to buy, the government and the French...
View ArticleFacebook to restore news for Australian users
SYDNEY — Facebook on Tuesday announced it would restore news content for Australian users “in the coming days” after the country’s government added last-minute amendments to a draft law that would...
View Article4 takeaways from Facebook’s Australian brawl
SYDNEY — You don’t just resend a friend request after unfriending someone. After the Australian government proposed legislation that would force Google and Facebook to pay local publishers for their...
View ArticleAustralia escalates EU vaccine spat
SYDNEY — To cope with immense domestic pressure over the slow rollout of vaccines, the Australian government has chosen a path some of its European counterparts love: blame Brussels. Canberra on...
View ArticleUkrainian president invites Putin for talks in conflict zone
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to meet him in his country’s war-torn eastern Donbass region for peace talks, amid growing international concern...
View ArticleRussian court bans Alexei Navalny’s organization
A Russian court late Wednesday night labeled Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s political organization “extremist,” effectively banning the movement’s activities. The decision, which was widely expected...
View ArticleUK regulator probes Amazon, Google over fake reviews
The U.K.’s markets regulator has opened a formal investigation into Amazon and Google over concerns the platforms haven’t done enough to crack down on fake reviews on their sites. The Competition and...
View ArticleIOC boots Belarusian officials from Olympic Village
The International Olympic Committee revoked the accreditation of two Belarusian Olympic officials who were implicated in attempting to force sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya back to Belarus after she...
View ArticleBelarus rejects US ambassador over sanctions
Belarus revoked its consent to the appointment of Julie Fisher as the U.S. ambassador to the country and demanded Washington reduce its Minsk embassy staff to five people by September 1, the...
View ArticleUK and Australia announce vaccine swap deal
SYDNEY — The U.K. will send 4 million BioNTech/Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses to Australia this month, while Canberra will return the same overall number by the end of the year under a deal...
View Article‘That fellow Down Under’— Aussies cringe as Biden appears to forget PM’s name
SYDNEY — Pal. Fellow Down Under. Hey … you. Sure, Washington, London and Canberra have just signed a huge new defense pact. But what Australians are talking about is U.S. President Joe Biden appearing...
View ArticlePoliticians’ newsletters, reviewed
As the editor of POLITICO’s Brussels and London Playbooks, I know a thing or two about political newsletters. This is why I’m shocked that politicians across Europe have been launching their own inbox...
View Article‘Stab in the back’: France slams Australia, US over move to ditch €50B...
The French government has hit out Australia’s decision to tear up a submarine deal with France worth more than €50 billion to instead acquire American-made nuclear-powered submarines. “It’s a stab in...
View ArticleWhy Australia wanted out of its French submarine deal
SYDNEY — “A stab in the back” is how French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described Australia’s move to tear up a submarine deal worth more than €50 billion to instead acquire nuclear-powered...
View ArticleHow Xi Jinping lost Australia
SYDNEY — Nearly 10 years ago, Australia thought it was on the cusp of a beautiful friendship with China: It was opening up its economy to Beijing, wanted to teach Mandarin in schools and invited the...
View ArticleIMF board declares ‘full confidence’ in chief Kristalina Georgieva
The International Monetary Fund’s executive board said it has “full confidence” in IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, amid allegations she skewed data during her time as chief executive of...
View ArticleUK GDP grows 0.4 percent in August, still below pre-pandemic levels
U.K. gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.4 percent in August over July, but remains 0.8 percent below the pre-pandemic level of February 2020, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said...
View ArticlePutin, Biden agree ‘in principle’ to summit after Macron calls
U.S. President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have “in principle” agreed to hold a bilateral summit followed by a meeting with all relevant parties on the security situation in...
View ArticleBattles flare across Ukraine after Putin declares war
KYIV — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday launched an all-out assault on Ukraine with missiles, warplanes and tanks that threatens to push Europe into its biggest conflict since World War...
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