2 March 2021 | Euronews
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France Sahara dust and traffic lead to air pollution alerts in France Parts of France are experiencing high levels of air pollution amid a storm bringing dust from the Sahara Desert over to the country. -
Italy Coronavirus: Italian government shuts all schools in high risk areas Secondary schools were already closed due to the spread of the virus, but now all schools in so-called red zones will be shut. -
Austria Austria and Denmark team up with Israel for next generation COVID-19 vaccines The initiative comes amid growing frustration over delays in the EU's vaccine rollout. -
USA Fifteen dead after SUV carrying 27 people crashes in US, say emergency services Hospital officials believe there were 27 people in an SUV that struck a tractor-trailer in the agricultural southeastern corner of California. -
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia sends vaccines to neighbour Bosnia amid row over COVAX delays The COVAX scheme has delivered millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine to African countries this week, but officials have admitted the scheme has gone slower than expected in certain areas. -
My Europe Series Will COVID-19 spark reform of the EU's borderless Schengen Area? Euronews looks at recent border restrictions prompted by coronavirus variants and what they mean for the future of free movement in Europe. -
Travel News Which music festivals are going ahead in Europe in 2021? Missing live music? Here are all of the countries holding music festivals across Europe this summer. -
Europe News EU member states push forward with new tax transparency rules A majority of EU states agreed last week to press ahead with tax transparency laws for the world's largest multinational companies. -
Poland Poland clears LGBT activists over putting rainbow on Roman Catholic icon "This is a triumph for the LGBT+ resistance movement in the most homophobic country of the European Union,'' the Love Does Not Exclude group said. -
Portugal Second Lisbon airport to be reconsidered amid environmental concerns Portugal’s aviation regulator ANAC has rejected a request for prior appraisal of the construction of a second airport in the capitol. -
Sweden Egyptians rejected asylum in Sweden and fearing persecution back home A number of Egyptian asylum seekers - some facing life imprisonment in Egypt - are making a last-ditch attempt to avoid deportation following decisions made by Sweden’s asylum agency. -
Romania Romania's former tourism minister sentenced for corruption and money-laundering Elena Udrea, a former Romanian tourism minister, and Ioana Basescu, daughter of the former president, received prison sentences for money laundering. -
Ecotech Seville is turning 35 tonnes of unwanted oranges into electricity Forget marmalade, this Spanish city is using oranges to make renewable biofuel. -
Kosovo EU envoy urges Kosovo to resume talks with Serbia Dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia stalled in September following talks in Brussels last September. -
Earth News Boohoo could face US import ban due to ‘slave labour’ allegations The fast fashion giant may not be able to export to the United States amid further accusations of modern slavery. -
Russia Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, turns 90 in quarantine Gorbachev, who is widely credited with ending the Cold War, was very popular in the West, but a much more polarising figure within Russia. -
Germany Brussels probes Germany's €4.35 billion coal plant pay-off plan Germany has planned to phase out coal from its energy mix by 2038. As part of this, it has proposed to give €4.35 billion to plant operators to compensate for lost profits due to the early closures. -
Ecotech These are the 8 cities people most want to go car-free We asked our followers where they wanted to see be pedestrianised. Is your hometown on the list? -
Europe News Poland's judicial independence will be destroyed unless EU moves faster, says MEP It comes as the EU's top court ruled Warsaw's new regulations for appointing judges to the Supreme Court could violate the bloc's law. -
World Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, erupts seven times in two weeks Living near the volcano is no easy task for locals, as they have to clear huge amounts of ash from the streets, and sometimes even run for cover. -
World News COVID-19: 'Unrealistic' for pandemic to be over by year-end, says WHO "Right now the virus is very much in control," the WHO's head of emergencies programme stressed on Monday. -
Nigeria Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed The girls were abducted from their boarding school by gunmen last Friday. -
France NGOs demand France investigates Syrian regime's chemical weapons attacks The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) and Syrian Archive are seeking a French criminal investigation into the August 2013 chemical weapons attacks on Douma and Eastern Ghouta. -
USA Twitter cracks down on COVID vaccine misinformation with strike system Accounts with two strikes against them will be locked for 12 hours. Five strikes will get a user permanently banned from Twitter. -
France COVID vaccine: France widens use of AstraZeneca jab, backs single dose for COVID patients Health Minister Olivier Véran told France 2 on Monday evening that the AstraZeneca jab has now been approved for people aged 65-74 with "co-morbidities". -
USA US father and son extradited to Japan over Carlos Ghosn's escape Michael Taylor and his son, Peter Taylor, will be tried on charges that they smuggled Ghosn out of the country in 2019.