By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s government resigned on Friday, accepting responsibility for wrongful accusations of fraud by the tax authorities that drove
By Sarah Young and William James LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is tightening border controls to block new variants of COVID-19, suspending all “travel corridor” arrangements that had meant arrivals from
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s parliament on Friday approved a law that paves the way for the government to sign deals for coronavirus vaccines as it battles a steep increase in infections.
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Catalonia on Friday postponed a parliamentary election scheduled for Feb. 14 until May 30 because of a surge in coronavirus cases that has pushed hospital occupancy in the
By Ali Sawafta and Nidal al-Mughrabi RAMALLAH, West Bank/GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced parliamentary and presidential elections on Friday, the first in 15 years, in an
By Alexandros Avramidis THESSALONIKI, Greece (Reuters) – Greek taxi driver Konstantinos Bekio is doing his bit to lift his passengers’ spirits amid the gloom of coronavirus lockdown, turning his cab
By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake killed at least 42 people and injured hundreds on Indonesia’s island of Sulawesi on Friday, trapping several
PARIS (Reuters) – The cumulative death toll from the coronavirus in France rose by 636 to 69,949 on Monday as the country added a three-day batch of retirement home deaths to the tally, health
By Francesco Guarascio and Andrius Sytas BRUSSELS/VILNUS (Reuters) – European governments said the credibility of their vaccination programmes was at risk on Friday after U.S. pharmaceutical firm