Hungary is battling to avoid a healthcare crisis, amid record COVID-19 hospitalization numbers and with a current positive taste rate of one-in-three.

Mask wearing is mandatory both outside and inside in a country which says its vaccination rate is the highest per capita in Europe.

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Sian Griffiths, the head of Staffordshire University's Centre for Health and Development agrees there is a danger the UK's successful vaccination program could lull people into a false sense of security, leading them to ignore the rules.

"I think people are feeling more optimistic," she told CGT...

"Financial markets were once oligopolies in which retail investors had no impact whatsoever on trade. Now that's changed."💵

💰Finance guru Arturo Bris tells #TheAgenda with Stephen Cole how the Game Stop saga may have changed investment forever.

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🇬🇧 As of March 8, UK’s schools will open their doors to millions of students as the lockdown eases. But how will schools cope with disparities in the impact lockdown has had on their pupils?

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“We have to be braced for a huge mental health crisis.”

Two UK students describe how their Cambridge dream turned to isolation and hospitalization – an experience that typifies how their generation’s struggle is forgotten in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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"We have created an internal commission to assess when to begin a pilot test - so that it’s ready to use as soon as pandemic numbers allow it," said Spain’s minister for industry, trade and tourism Reyes Maroto.

Spain faces stiff competition for vaccinated tourists with this week Cyprus stating ...

Australia called for a review of Italy's decision to block a shipment of AstraZeneca jabs to the country, as the global competition for coronavirus vaccines escalates.

Italy, with the blessing of the Commission, halted a shipment of 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine bound for Australia,...

🐁 Curled up in a nest with their bushy tail neatly tucked around their ears, hazel dormice sleep soundly throughout the cold winter months.

The population of the species native to the UK has dropped by over a half in the last twenty years.

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Czechia’s president says China has agreed to a request to supply its Sinopharm vaccine to the country, which has been battling high COVID-19 infection rates.

It is not yet known how many doses have been agreed, with Czechia having also asked Russia for the Sputnik V vaccine.

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"We were hit by the pandemic more than any other industry, and Europe was hit even harder than other regions of the world," Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr told shareholders.

With passenger numbers only a quarter of what they were the year before, revenue was down by more than half for L...

Sebastian Vettel will drive Aston Martin’s new Formula One car along with the chairman’s son, the up-and-coming Lance Stroll.

Speaking to CGTN Europe, Lawrence Stroll said by returning to F1, Aston Martin was "returning to the DNA of the company. We're building the greatest British iconic premie...

💰 Rishi Sunak’s 2021 UK budget:

💸Extension to furlough scheme
🧾Rise in corporation tax
🧊 Personal tax rate freeze
🚢 8 new post-Brexit free ports

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As China's Two Sessions gatherings get under way, the economic headline has to be the country's recently agreed investment deal with the European Union.

It is being sold as a positive sign of multilateral economics at work, but also as a deal that need not necessarily exclude any other party.

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Taranto, like many other Italian cities and towns, has a problem: its residents are leaving.

To attract people back to the city, Taranto’s mayor has launched an unusual initiative: selling uninhabited houses for just one euro.

A Russian interpreter in love with Italy and young people who want ...

Belgium is the latest European country to make a U-turn on the AstraZeneca vaccine, now recommending it for use in people over 55 years of age.

The country's Superior Health Council said data from new, large-scale studies in the UK, which showed strong efficacy in older age groups "is reassuri...

🐁 Curled up in a nest with their bushy tail neatly tucked around their ears, hazel dormice sleep soundly throughout the cold winter months.

The population of the species native to the UK has dropped by over a half in the last twenty years.

The People's Trust for Endangered Species @ptes_org i...

Prosciutto di Parma is among the Italian foods on the list of Geographical Indications to be protected in an agreement between China and the EU 🇮🇹 🇨🇳 🇪🇺

But just what will the agreement mean for its producers?

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From NASA's Perseverance and China's Tianwen-1 to the UAE's Hope orbiter, 2021 is proving to be an exciting year for missions to Mars. 🌌

Emma Keeling explores the scientific and engineering innovations at the heart of each of these missions, talking to leading scientists and engineers from the E...

Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, has joined thousands of other Hungarians who have received the Sinopharm jab this week, he announced in a Facebook post.

It makes him the first EU leader to take the Chinese vaccine.

Currently, Hungary is the only EU country to be administering vaccines f...

England’s Chiltern hills hide thousands of years of history. This rolling landscape overlooking the wide expanse of the valley beneath is an archaeologists' paradise.

There are more Iron Age hill-forts concealed in woods and hilltops in this area than anywhere else in southern England – and it’...

The funeral has been held for Captain Sir Tom Moore, 100, who raised nearly $45 million for the UK’s health service and helped raise spirits during the COVID-19 lockdown.

A military guard of honor and Royal Air Force fly-past took place in memory of the World War ll veteran.

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Addiction is a multi-trillion-dollar problem from which no country is entirely immune.

Experts describe it as a disease that alters our brain, making us a slave to a substance or an activity.

But just how do we become addicted to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, food and so on? What are the human a...

European leaders are once again calling for greater cooperation on defense, a move that risks damaging relations with the new U.S. administration under President Joe Biden.

"We reaffirm that, in the face of increased global instability, the EU needs to take more responsibility for its security...

China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine has already reached around 5,000 doctors in Hungary, according to the Chinese ambassador to the country.

Qi Dayu, China's chief diplomat in Budapest, told CGTN Europe that Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban hopes to get his Sinopharm jab in the near future....