Europe

The coronavirus variant first found in the British region of Kent is a concern because it is mutating and so could undermine the protection given by vaccines against developing COVID-19, the head of the UK’s genetic surveillance programme said. The coronavirus has killed 2.35 million people and turned normal life …

Several people have been injured after a gas explosion in Memmingen in southern Germany, daily Bild reported on Friday, citing a police spokesman. The paper said a further explosion could not be ruled out. According to the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper the explosion occurred at the offices of the German Red …

The trial in Algeria of a group accused of decapitating a French mountain guide, which was due to start on Thursday in Algiers, has been put back to 18 February. The trial in the murder case of Frenchman Hervé Gourdel, has been postponed to February 18. Fourteen people are facing …

The trial of a suspected warlord accused of atrocities during Liberia’s civil war begins in Finland on Wednesday, the first such case to be partly heard on Liberian soil. Gibril Massaquoi, a Sierra Leonean living in Finland since 2008, is accused of murder, aggravated war crimes and aggravated crimes against …

Members of Germany’s parliament proposed legislation on Friday that would allow assisted suicide for terminally ill adults once they have received counselling. Germany’s top court last year ruled in favour of groups that help people die, saying an existing law that bans assisted suicide services breached the constitution. “Everyone who …

Russia has just began vaccination and it began with the category of people the most affected by the virus or the most exposed to the virus since the early December. A mass vaccination campaign is planned from next week. Russians who are more than 18 years old could be vaccinated …

Spain is intending to create a database to record persons who will refuse to be vaccinated. A vast register on immunization of its population and vaccination monitoring will also be implemented. A list of protesters of covid-19s vaccine will be shared with other countries of the European Union. This large …

Fifth country in the world the most attacked by number of dead persons of covid-19, Italia received this 25th December by refrigerate truck, from Belgium the first batches of dose of Pfizer BioNtech’s vaccine. The vaccination’s campaign against covid19 will start this 27th December. Vaccines are stocked in Spallanzani’s hospital, …

Real thunderbolt. This Thursday 24th December 2020, the day before Christmas, the leaders of Paris Saint Germain Football Club dismissed their German coach Thomas Tuchel. His dismissal’s reasons are elsewhere, not on the results. If PSG leaders release Parisians coach this Thursday, the reasons are elsewhere, as on the field …