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EU shores up Libyan coast guard amid Covid-19 scare

Friday, 24 April 2020, 09:55 Last update: about 6 years ago

The European Union is reshuffling budgets to further shore up Libya's coast guard and the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU Observer reports. The money talks, held among EU foreign...

EU agrees budget, recovery plan needed to beat virus impact

Friday, 24 April 2020, 06:45 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

European Union leaders agreed Thursday to revamp the EU's long-term budget and set up a massive recovery fund to tackle the impact of the coronavirus and help rebuild the 27-nation bloc's ravaged...

Britain launches COVID-19 vaccine study, latest in race

Friday, 24 April 2020, 06:43 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Testing of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine began in healthy volunteers in Britain Thursday, the latest in a cluster of early-stage studies in search of protection against the...

European economies on course for unprecedented recessions

Thursday, 23 April 2020, 16:43 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Europe's economies are heading for unprecedented recessions as a result of the lockdown measures put in place by governments to get a grip on the coronavirus pandemic, closely watched surveys...

Nurse Jenny from New Zealand recounts treating Boris Johnson

Thursday, 23 April 2020, 10:56 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Nurse Jenny from New Zealand says that helping save somebody as notable as Boris Johnson in his battle with the coronavirus didn't faze her thanks to her years of dealing with stressful situations in...

As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner

Thursday, 23 April 2020, 10:24 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth. As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. Smog stopped choking...

Big unknowns about virus complicate getting back to normal

Thursday, 23 April 2020, 07:31 Last update: about 6 years ago Associated Press

Reopening the economy is complicated by some troubling scientific questions about the new coronavirus that go beyond the logistics of whether enough tests are available. In an ideal world,...

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