⚽ UEFA dropped Dublin and Bilbao as Euro 2020 hosts over a failure to guarantee fans' attendance, with matches destined for the Irish capital switched to St Petersburg and London while Seville steps in for the Basque town.

Bilbao's impressive stadium could only hold matches while empty, instead ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she is "confident" that 70 percent of the adult population in Europe can be vaccinated "in July," in what would mark a massive turnaround for the bloc's immunization program, which got off to a slow and rocky start.

The improved time fram...

Church leaders have put on a united front to call for calm after a fortnight of sporadic rioting in Northern Ireland.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 It’s #StGeorgesDay in England - so here’s a treat for those who have been missing their trips across the Channel as a result of the pandemic travel restrictions.

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Should peat compost be banned from sale as peatland destruction is releasing more C02 into the environment? Peatlands cover three million square kilometers around the globe and in the UK around 80 percent are damaged.

"We absolutely have to reduce carbon emissions. And yet we’re digging up this ...

Germany's upper parliament has signed off on the controversial Infection Protection Act, which seeks to better control the nation's third wave of COVID-19 by putting power in the hands of the federal government.

The law keeps cities in lockdown if more than 100 infections per 100,000 residents ...

🇷🇺The West is growing nervous over the military build-up at the Ukrainian border and the treatment of political dissident Alexei Navalny, but Russian decision-making expert Nikolai Petrov says Putin’s position in the country is unlikely to be damaged.

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🇭🇺 Budapest’s green shift - as residents experiment with veganism, recycling and reusing, we explore some of the initiatives that have been launched to help protect the environment 🌳

Click here to watch our report and find out what changes are some people making in an effort to save our planet 🌍...

🪙 From Bitcoin to 'Britcoin'... The UK has set up a taskforce to examine the viability of a "digital pound" for people and businesses, amid a cryptocurrency boom.

Greengage's Chief Executive Sean Kiernan explains 👇
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Contentious negotiations over who will lead the German conservative ticket as nominee for Chancellor in September's national elections have been settled.

The center-right coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU) and Bavaria's Christian Socialists (CSU) has thrown its support behind CDU party leade...

😷💉UK scientists are planning to re-infect a group of volunteers with COVID-19 in a world-first trial. Researchers from Oxford University say the study will be an important part of working out who is really immune from the virus, and for how long.

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Governments across the plant have struggled to react to the COVID-19 pandemic but should they have seen it coming? Author Michele Wucker explains why picturing the virus as a gray rhino would have helped politicians and the public respond with greater speed 🦏 ⚡

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The European Union's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has reiterated Western calls for Moscow to withdraw troops from its border with Ukraine, warning of a "dangerous" escalation of tensions in the region.

Moscow has claimed its military build-up is a temporary defensive exercise, but the move has a...

Czechia suspects Russian intelligence services were behind the plot, which killed two people, and has identified 18 envoys that it claims have been working as spies.

Russia has denied any wrongdoing.

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Björn Annwall is head of Volvo’s Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region and tells Stephen Cole how the Swedish car manufacturer plans to make electric-only vehicles by its 2030 deadline, as well as the challenge of convincing EV-hesitant consumers.

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🇩🇪 Germany held a memorial for people who have died from COVID-19
🇫🇷 France has imposed a 10-day quarantine on arrivals from Brazil
🇪🇸 Mass vaccination centers in Spain may close because of jab shortages

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The new agreement comes after days of talks between the Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua and his U.S. counterpart, John Kerry in Shanghai earlier this week. 🇨🇳🇺🇸

Kerry’s visit was the first high-level trip to China by a Joe Biden administered government official since the new president took off...

While vaccine development and allocation are not a natural role for the World Trade Organization, the rollout imbalance makes it rethink its plan.

One proposal to increase vaccine distribution is to waive the intellectual property rights of pharmaceutical companies temporarily.

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Angry healthcare workers in Madrid went on an open top bus tour across the city to protest against the poor working conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 🇪🇸🧑‍⚕️

Changing their tactics from street protests, the workers travelled to four public health centers to try to make their voices heard, as...

Much to the travel company Sunweb's surprise, thousands of people were keen on participating in the scheme. 🍹

During their stay, they are required to follow social distancing measures and wear a face mask. But all these rules haven’t dampened their spirits. 🏖️

"I'm very happy, it's been a long ...

NATO has described the build-up of Russian troops near the Ukraine border as “unjustified, unexplained and deeply disturbing.”

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The French government is to axe flights if the high-speed train takes less than 2.5 hours – and expert Paul Charles says that will benefit the local economies. 🚆

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In 2015, David Cameron hailed a "golden era of ties" between China and the UK.

Fast forward to 2021 and those ties have been loosened rather than tightened but could Brexit Britain revitalize trade between the two nations?

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PM Boris Johnson urges caution as UK economy reopens from lockdown.

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