2021-02-05

United Kingdom

How worried should you be about new COVID-19 variants?

Professor Danny Altmann, a professor of immunology at Imperial College London, explains why new coronavirus variants have emerged.

05/02/2021

Myanmar

Students and teachers protest in Yangon against Myanmar military coup

The demonstrators raised three fingers in a salute and held cards showing a red ribbon to show their defiance against the coup that occurred earlier in the week.

05/02/2021

United Kingdom

UK regulator says COVID vaccines meet strict safety standards

Most of the reported side effects from COVID vaccines are "mild and short lasting", the UK medicines regulator said.

05/02/2021

World News

ICC clears way for war crimes probe of Israeli actions

The International Criminal Court said that its jurisdiction extends to territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, clearing the way for its chief prosecutor to open a war crimes probe into Israeli military actions.

05/02/2021

World News

EU rejects Russia's move to expel European diplomats: Borrell

"I reject the allegations that these diplomats were performing activities incompatible with their role as diplomats," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told Euronews of Russia's move to expel European diplomats.

05/02/2021

World News

Oscar winner, ‘Sound of Music’ star Christopher Plummer dies

Christopher Plummer, the award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film “The Sound of Music” has died.

05/02/2021

Europe Decoded

Has a 50-year mystery about playing golf on the moon now been solved?

US astronaut Alan P. Shepard Jr became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon. But there has been a 50-year-old mystery over how far it travelled. Until perhaps now....

05/02/2021

No Comment

Landslide in southern Germany forces evacuations

Several households were evacuated after a landslide near Wangen, southern Germany, on Thursday.

05/02/2021

My Europe Series

Europe's week: Navalny jailing slammed as vaccine fallout continues

What has dominated minds in Brussels this week?

05/02/2021

Denmark

Denmark to build world's first energy island in the North Sea

As part of its ambitious carbon emissions reduction targets, Denmark plans to create a €28-billion wind power island.

05/02/2021

No Comment

Students rally against coup at Myanmar campus

Students came out to demand that soldiers return to their barracks, release the country's detained leaders, including Aung San Suu Kyi, and restore democracy.

05/02/2021

Eco-Innovation

Denmark’s first artificial energy island will power 3 million homes

The country has just made a huge investment to move away from a history of fossil fuel production.

05/02/2021

My Europe Series

No way forward, no way back: the nightmare of migrants trapped in Bosnia

Unreported Europe looks into the living conditions of economic migrants stuck in Bosnia desperately trying to get into the EU.

05/02/2021

People

How a French city became the European capital of silk

Here, we delve into the history of the French city of Lyon - and the silk industry which put it on the map.

05/02/2021

No Comment

Students in Bolivia's high plateaus are now wearing protective suits

They are coming to school for the start of the 2021 school year as protected as possible from COVID-19.

05/02/2021

Living

The first ever human composting centre opens this year

Along with being turned into a tree or eaten by mushrooms, composting humans is the next big thing in eco burials.

05/02/2021

Russia

Russia expels European diplomats over attending pro-Navalny protests

Russia expels diplomats from Germany, Poland and Sweden amid claims they took part in pro-Navalny protests.

05/02/2021

Germany

Nazi concentration camp secretary charged with complicity to murder

It is believed to be the first time for several years that a woman has been charged in relation to wartime Nazi atrocities.

05/02/2021

No Comment

Activists' backers bring flowers to Myanmar court

Supporters of activists arrested in Myanmar amid protests over the country's recent military coup turned up with flowers at their court appearance.

05/02/2021

United Kingdom

Scottish police probe 'linked' deaths of two women and a man

Two women died after being found injured, one from stab wounds, while a man was also killed in a fatal road accident nearby. Police are linking the incidents.

05/02/2021

Eco-Innovation

World’s ‘most sustainable’ glass bottle has just been invented

One manufacturer in Northern Ireland is using biofuels to minimise carbon emissions in the glass-making process.

05/02/2021

World

France's top football league nets financial lifeline with new TV deal

"It's a short reprieve," sports journalist Michael Kurn told Euronews. "This deal is only going to go until the end of the season."

05/02/2021

China

China threatens retaliation over cancellation of CGTN's UK licence

The Chinese foreign ministry threatened retaliation after CGTN's licence to broadcast in the UK was suddenly removed by Ofcom on Thursday.

05/02/2021

World

Merkel asks Germans to 'hold out a little longer'

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany is past the peak of the latest surge in coronavirus cases. But the German leader wants to wait for more data on the spread of new variants before deciding whether to ease lockdown restrictions.

05/02/2021

No Comment

Yangon and Bangkok become protest grounds against Myanmar coup

The applause in Yangon on Thursday came as about 70 recently elected lawmakers defied the new military government on Thursday by convening a symbolic meeting of the Parliament that was prevented from opening.

05/02/2021

World News

The most striking images from this week's top stories

Here are the key stories of the week captured through the lens' of photographers from around the world.

05/02/2021

World

'Dark kitchens' popping up all over Madrid. But what are they?

The closure of traditional bars and restaurants due to COVID-19 restrictions has given rise to a new culinary concept - the so called 'dark kitchen.' It's an industry comprised of rented cooking spaces and delivered take-away meals, and it's booming in Madrid.

05/02/2021

Russia

Alexei Navalny slams Kremlin 'PR project' in court defamation case

The Russian opposition figure jailed earlier this week says charges that he slandered a World War II veteran are also politically motivated.

05/02/2021

Travel News

Meet Europe's grounded pilots looking for other work amid travel slump

Many commercial pilots, after years of training, are being forced to look for other forms of work, with the coronavirus pandemic decimating the travel industry and leaving aircraft grounded.

05/02/2021

Myanmar

Myanmar coup: UN backs return of democracy and release of detainees

UN Security-General Antonio Guterres said everything possible would be done to mobilise international pressure "to make sure that this coup fails".

05/02/2021