Europe badly lags US in jabs-in-arms race
The World Health Organization has rebuked Europe for its its sluggish Covid vaccine rollout and an AFP tally shows the continent is badly lagging behind in the jabs-in-arms race
New START: expiring arms accord between Cold War rivals
Russia and the United States have until February 5 to prolong a key agreement to curb their nuclear arsenals, the last remaining arms reduction pact between the former Cold War rivals
EU chiefs express relief as ‘friend’ replaces Trump
The European Union's top officials express relief that they will again have a 'friend' in the White House as Joe Biden replaces Donald Trump as US president
Facing Biden, Erdogan extends olive branch to EU
Facing a potentially hostile US administration, Turkish President Erdogan is trying to break his isolation by mending EU relations, torn by what the bloc views as his bellicose foreign policy
Europe tightens virus curbs as Christmas surge fears grow
Several European countries tightened coronavirus restrictions on Wednesday, as Germany set a record for daily deaths and the US broke its own daily high for infection numbers
How the world has sped up vaccine approvals
As Britain becomes the first Western country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine for general use, authorities in Europe, the US, Russia and China have also sped up their approval procedures
With Biden, Europe hopes for friendlier trade
Final votes are yet to be tallied in the US election but European exporters are already excited about the prospect that Joe Biden may put an end to a trade war and lift US tariffs on their products
EU must ‘learn to live without’ US global leadership under Biden
The EU will once again have a cooperative US partner when Joe Biden becomes president, but Europeans should have no illusions: Washington will be no globo-cop nor NATO's big protector, analysts say
Poll finds majority of Europeans would vote for Biden
Joe Biden would hammer Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election if it were Europeans heading to the ballot box, according to a new poll
EU, US urge each other to forgo massive tariffs in aircraft spat
The World Trade Organization in Geneva announced that the European Union has the right to impose nearly $ 4 billion in tariffs on US imports annually in retaliation for unfair US support for Boeing.