Tag: United Kingdom

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Boris Johnson assures he will raise the Falklands' issue at the EU

  

  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised he will raise the matter of the Falklands fishery in the European Union after Labour MP Derek Twigg made representations on behalf of the Islands at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  PM Johnson vowed to go 'an extra mile' for a Brexit deal, but also tells UK to prepare for a crash out of EU

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday vowed to go the “extra mile” for a Brexit trade deal but instructed his government to prepare for Britain to crash out of the European Union’s single market at the end of this year.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  UK announces travel bans and asset freezes for human rights violators

  

  The United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Secretary announced travel bans and asset freezes for 11 Russian, Venezuelan, Gambian and Pakistani human rights violators.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  UK medicine regulator advises people with allergic reactions to avoid the Pfizer vaccines

  

  Britain's medicine regulator has advised that people with a history of significant allergic reactions do not get Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine after two people reported adverse effects on the first day of rollout.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2020 - 14:44 UTC

  British granny 90, first person to receive the Pfizer Covid 19 vaccine: “Go for it”

  

  Ms Margaret Keenan, the 90-year-old grandmother who became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine outside of a trial in Britain on Tuesday, has a message for others: “Go for it” to beat the devastating disease.

• Monday, December 7th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  UK begins massive inoculation on Tuesday; no preference for senior royals

  

  Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, after UK regulators granted emergency approval and the world’s first roll-out begins next week, reports late Saturday said.

• Sunday, December 6th 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  Britain receives the Pfizer vaccine from Belgium and Monday begins inoculation

  

  Pfizer plans to ship 800,000 doses to Britain in the coming days from its production plant in Puurs in Belgium. Britain on Wednesday gave emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine, becoming the first Western country to pave the way for mass inoculations against a disease that has killed more than 1.4 million people worldwide.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 18:13 UTC

  Kirsty Hayes to be the next United Kingdom Ambassador to Argentina

  

  The United Kingdom has appointed on Friday Mrs Kirsty Isobel Hayes as the future Ambassador to Argentina in succession to Mr Mark Kent. The British embassy in Buenos Aires will welcome Hayes in September 2021.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 16:41 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government position on fishing exports post-Brexit

  

  The Falkland Islands Government, both here and in London, have worked hard over the past four years to ensure that the impact of Brexit on the Falkland Islands was fully understood by the UK government.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 13:45 UTC

  UK steps forward and approve Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for rollout ‘next week’

  

  The United Kingdom steps forward the United States and Europe and became the first Western country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine for general use as it announced on Wednesday a rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech’s drug from next week.