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A healthcare worker wishes farewell to a patient at the Portimao Arena sports pavilion converted in a field hospital for Covid-19 patients at Portimao, in the Algarve region, on February 9, 2021. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)
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Europe plays safe with virus curbs, fearing new variants

While some European countries are seeing virus cases fall, most are keeping national curbs in place, fearing new more infectious variants could cause infections to soar
2 weeks ago
Italian economist Mario Draghi gives a speech after being awarded the Federal Cross of Merit during a ceremony at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin on January 31, 2020. - Months after the end of his term as president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi received Germany's highest honour, drawing attacks from critics of his easy-money policy. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
Italian economist Mario Draghi gives a s […]
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How long will Italy’s honeymoon with Draghi last?

In Italy, politicians left, right and centre are rallying behind Mario Draghi's attempt to form a unity government -- but will an unusually broad coalition make his job harder?
3 weeks ago
Austrian police work on November 3, 2020 at Morzinplatz, one of the areas of the multiple shootings that occured on the eve in the center of Vienna, Austria. - A huge manhunt was under way November 3, 2020 after gunmen opened fire at multiple locations across central Vienna, killing at least three people and wounding several more in what the Austrian Chancellor described as a "repulsive terror attack". One of the suspected killers, identified as an Islamic State group sympathiser, was shot dead by police who said they were searching for at least one more assailant still at large. (Photo by ALEX HALADA / AFP)
Austrian police work on November 3, 2020 […]
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Austria attack highlights Europe’s jihadist dilemma

The fallout from November's shootings in Vienna has shone a light on Europe's dilemma in dealing with jihadists, particularly the continent's struggles to deradicalise individuals
3 weeks ago
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 17, 2020 An illustration picture shows a drop from a syringe with the logo of British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. Drugs company AstraZeneca and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on January 28, 2021 defended the effectiveness of its Covid-19 vaccine after regulators in Germany said it should not be given to over 65s. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)
(FILES) In this file photo taken on Nove […]
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Questions surround AstraZeneca vaccine use for elderly

The subject of a sometimes acrimonious row between the EU and Britain, the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has also fuelled debate over its effectiveness among the elderly
4 weeks ago
This picture taken on January 5, 2021, in Paris, shows figurines and a syringe to illustrate people receiving Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) vaccinations. - EU nations started their Covid-19 vaccination campaigns with their most vulnerable groups on December 27, 2020, as a new coronavirus variant spread internationally and the WHO warned the current pandemic will not be the last. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)
This picture taken on January 5, 2021, i […]
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Covid vaccine rollout urgent as new strains take hold

The international spread of more infectious coronavirus strains has made inoculating a maximum number of people as quickly as possible more urgent than ever, experts say
4 weeks ago
A nurse prepares an injection of the Sinovac's CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine as nationwide vaccination began for seniors of 75-year-old or older at Sancaktepe Education and Research Hospital, in Istanbul, on January 28, 2021. (Photo by Bulent Kilic / AFP)
A nurse prepares an injection of the Sin […]
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‘Vaccine nationalism’: the big divide

None of the world's 29 poorest countries have started Covid-19 vaccination drives, leading to growing calls for a fair and equitable distribution of these life-saving jabs
1 month ago
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