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She had just come to collect her things.   It was January 2020. Vera Pekhteleva, a 23-year-old university student, had told her boyfriend their...

The co-creator of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine has said the technology behind it could soon be used to fight cancer too. While the vaccine has...

Even on a grey, drizzly day, the town hall of the third arrondissement in Paris is a fine building. Built in the 1860s, it...

Paris is among 16 regions of France facing new lockdowns from midnight tomorrow, the country’s prime minister Jean Castex has announced. He said the...

Amidst the turmoil and rancour in Brussels, there is one sure thing today – the name of AstraZeneca will be in the headlines again....

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has threatened to block vaccine exports to the UK and other countries with markedly higher rollouts of...

Companies in the UK “still cannot guarantee that their supply chains are free from forced labour” from the Uighur people in Xinjiang in China,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging countries to continue using the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine – as global medical experts meet to discuss reports...

The breadth and depth of human suffering in the Ethiopian region of Tigray is perfectly clear to humanitarian workers, human rights groups and the...

Germany is suspending use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in order to investigate reports of blood clots. The country’s Health Ministry said the measure...

After a decade of war, you might expect every city in Syria to be in ruins, and many are. Aleppo, Idlib, Homs, Raqqa, the...

Ireland should temporarily halt its use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab after some reports of blood clots in vaccinated people, health authorities say. The call...

The Metropolitan Police has launched a preliminary investigation into Asma al Assad, Sky News understands.  The British-born wife of Syrian President Bashar al Assad...

A homemade submarine capable of smuggling up to 2,000kg of drugs has been seized by police in Spain. Investigators discovered the 9m (30ft) narco...

Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and snatched at least 30 students in the latest of a string of such kidnaps. The...

Italy is set to impose another national lockdown over the Easter weekend to combat growing numbers of coronavirus cases. It will see non-essential shops...

The family of a man who was fatally run over by a bulldozer that the police were using to chase him have been given...

The European Medicines Agency has launched an investigation into the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab after reports of blood clots in vaccinated people. At present there is no...

Twenty-seven people have been killed after a bus carrying children and some parents plunged into a ravine in Indonesia. At least 39 more are...