2021-04-07

Albania

Albania sends troops and police to end air traffic control strike

Air traffic controllers were striking over pay, causing more than a dozen flights at Albania's one international airport to be cancelled.

07/04/2021

World News

Countries change tack on AstraZeneca vaccine despite EU call for unity

Countries are changing their recommendations for who should receive the AstraZeneca coronavirus jab after the EMA confirmed a "possible link" between the vaccine and a rare form of blood clot.

07/04/2021

World News

Europe must be ambitious to stay ahead in the space race, says ESA

The European Space Agency's Director-General has set out an ambitious plan, which he says will keep the agency on the front foot in the space race.

07/04/2021

France

Bronze Age stone slab believed to be oldest 3D map in Europe

The Saint-Bélec slab was first unearthed in Brittany in 1900 but spent the last century in the cellars of the Musée d'Archeologie Nationale in Saint Germain en Laye.

07/04/2021

Europe News

Vienna talks offer hope for survival of Iran nuclear deal

The European Union is chairing a new round of negotiations in order to make all parties of the landmark deal return to compliance.

07/04/2021

Italy

Italy brings the curtain down on state censorship of films

Hundreds of films have been censored in Italy, most famously Bernardo Bertolucci's 1972 classic "Last Tango In Paris".

07/04/2021

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Rwanda Genocide Anniversary

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on Wednesday commemorated the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, during a solemn ceremony in Kigali.

07/04/2021

My Europe Series

Meet the town in war-hit Ukraine hoping to change its name to New York

It's got absolutely nothing in common with the Big Apple. But that hasn't stopped Novhorodske in Ukraine wanting to call itself New York.

07/04/2021

World

Getting vaccinated – with a shot of culture on the side

Museums remain closed in Italy due to the coronavirus pandemic, but in Naples people can get their culture fix while getting vaccinated.

07/04/2021

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'Grim reaper' artist in Berlin protests Brazil virus stance

Multimedia artist Rafael Puetter, who has been in Berlin for five years and originally comes from Rio de Janeiro, made his nightly excursion in the small hours of Wednesday just as Brazil for the first time reported a 24-hour tally of COVID-19 deaths exceeding 4,000.

07/04/2021

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Candidate kicks off campaign in northern Mexico inside a coffin

Carlos Mayorga, candidate for federal representative in Mexico's Ciudad Juárez, on the border with the United States, launches his election campaign inside a coffin to draw attention

07/04/2021

Turkey

Dozens handed life sentences over failed 2016 coup in Turkey

A total of 497 people have stood trial in Turkey since 2017 over the failed coup attempt.

07/04/2021

Business Series

Discover the Angolan wilderness that's teeming with biodiversity

In partnership with Governo de Angola

A crew of National Geographic scientists, explorers and filmmakers made it their mission to traverse the many Angolan rivers that supply water to Botswana’s world-famous Okavango Delta. Here's what they discovered...

07/04/2021

Focus

Geneva watch show goes online amid COVID pandemic

Geneva is right on time to host a new edition of its annual event of high-class horology, Watches and Wonders 2021.

07/04/2021

World News

These billionaires are Europe's richest people, according to Forbes

Forbes released its annual list of the world's wealthiest people. We take a look at the top European billionaires.

07/04/2021

Eco-Innovation

The underground vegetable farm thriving in London’s wartime bunkers

World War Two tunnels under the UK capital have been transformed into a space for urban farming.

07/04/2021

Real Economy

The Gig Economy: flexible freedom or wage slavery?

In partnership with The European Commission

As Spain passes a law classing food delivery riders as employees with full social benefits - we ask should there be EU-wide legislation? And we meet the Barcelona riders - who aren’t all happy.

07/04/2021

Czech Republic

Czechs have fourth new health minister in a year amid COVID-19 fallout

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis fired Jan Blatny on Wednesday, the third health minister who has lost the job in the pandemic.

07/04/2021

Germany

Bavaria signs 'preliminary contract' for doses of Sputnik V vaccine

German state of Bavaria has negotiated 'preliminary contract' for 2.5 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine.

07/04/2021

Russia

Satellite images show Russia expanding military presence in Arctic

Increased military exercises in the Arctic are part of Moscow’s efforts to expand its presence in the polar region.

07/04/2021

Experiences

A holiday turned into being chased around Iran by the secret police

Lisa Jackson gives us her first-hand experience of encounters with secret services in Tehran.

07/04/2021

World News

COVID-19 prompts life expectancy to fall in a majority of EU countries

According to Eurostat, the biggest drop was recorded in Spain, with a loss of 1.6 years on 2019.

07/04/2021

World News

North Korea tells World Health Organization it's still virus-free

Isolated North Korea has continued to claim a perfect record in keeping out the coronavirus in its latest report to the World Health Organization.

07/04/2021

Europe News

Gaffe as EU's Von der Leyen left without chair as male leaders look on

The incident comes with Turkey under the spotlight over women's rights after withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty on preventing domestic violence.

07/04/2021

Turkey

Diplomatic storm in Turkey over China's treatment of Uighur population

Turkey summoned China's ambassador after the embassy suggested on Twitter that it could take action against two Turkish politicians that had criticised Beijing's treatment of its Muslim Uighur community.

07/04/2021

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Yemen gravediggers, bulldozer struggle against Covid

Between the mountain ranges of Taez, dozens of fresh graves are being hastily dug in Yemen's third city to deal with a spike in deaths from Covid-linked complications.

07/04/2021

World News

COVID-19 has forced anti-semitic hatred online, researchers say

There are fears that once coronavirus lockdowns are lifted, physical attacks on Jews could increase.

07/04/2021

Nature

First ever images of mysterious ‘Walter's duiker’ captured in the wild

Is this small African antelope the world's most secretive mammal?

07/04/2021

World News

North Macedonia officials 'handed fake passports to foreign criminals'

Nine officials in North Macedonia's interior ministry have been arrested on suspicion of illegally issuing passports to overseas criminals.

07/04/2021

World News

1/3 of COVID patients suffer brain disorders within 6 months - study

A new study has found that 34% of those who had COVID-19 were diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric conditions.

07/04/2021