Tag: United Kingdom

• Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  South Georgia releases Blue Belt Program stamps

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands is releasing a stamp set to celebrate its involvement in the UK Blue Belt Program.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 20:40 UTC

  UK adds brands of COVID-19 vaccines to list of treatments admitted for travelers

  

  Health authorities from the United Kingdom have added Sinovac, Sinopharm Beijing and Covaxin to the list of immunizers to be accepted in order to spare incoming travelers a mandatory quarantine.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  A UK-EU trade war?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – International treaties are serious business. A lot of time and effort goes into negotiating them and they become part of international law. It’s very rare for a politician to say, only a couple of years after negotiating a treaty, that his country always felt it was “a little bit provisional and open to review.

• Monday, November 8th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Second bus in two weeks torched in unionist neighborhood of Belfast

  

  Four men hijacked and set fire to a double-deck bus in Newtownabbey, Belfast, Northern Ireland. According to the police report, the driver and a small number of passengers were able to leave the bus before it was torched, with no reports of injuries, but the vehicle was a total loss.

• Saturday, November 6th 2021 - 09:38 UTC

  UK Overseas Territories in support of COP26 and marine biodiversity

  

  The Association of United Kingdom Overseas Territories has published a joint statement in support of COP 26 and its commitment to protecting 30% of the world's oceans by 2030. The UK and its OTs are described as the world's fifth-largest marine estate.

• Friday, November 5th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  UK green-lights use of Merck's COVID-19 pill

  

  The United Kingdom Thursday became the first country in the world to authorize the use of molnupiravir, a pill developed by US laboratories Merck, to treat COVID-19.

• Thursday, November 4th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  UK flagged fishing vessel released by French court; London and Paris officials to meet to de escalate dispute

  

  A UK trawler impounded by French authorities over a fishing licenses' dispute with Britain was released on Wednesday by a French court overturning an earlier demand that it pays a €150,000 bond.

• Monday, November 1st 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  UK and France have yet to agree on de escalation of the fisheries dispute

  

  The United Kingdom on Sunday disavowed a French announcement that PM Boris Johnson and president Emmanuel Macron had agreed to de-escalate a dispute over fishing rights. Earlier a French official has advanced that the two leaders had agreed to address the issue in a private meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome.

• Monday, November 1st 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  Prince Charles warns G20 leaders of their duties regarding climate issues

  

  Prince Charles of Wales has warned world leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Rome that they were having an “overwhelming responsibility to generations yet unborn” regarding climate issues, ahead of the COP 26 summit in Glasgow.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 21:59 UTC

  Seven LatAm countries to be removed from UK's travel red list

  

  The United Kingdom's Departments for Transport and of Health and Social Care Thursday issued a joint press release announcing that the seven countries still on the travel red list, all of them from Latin America, would be removed from it shortly.