Europe
Navalny Says Russian Agent Confessed to Plot to Poison Him
MOSCOW — Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader recovering from a nerve agent attack, has made a career...
Boris Johnson chases sunlit uplands as coronavirus storm rages
Press play to listen to this article LONDON — It really hasn’t been Boris Johnson’s year. But, despite everything,...
EU clears Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for first inoculations
The European Union geared up to start mass vaccinations against COVID-19 just after Christmas after the shot developed by...
Chaotic messaging from UK leaves European countries in a rush to shut down borders
A lack of communication from Boris Johnson’s government to European leaders on the virulence of the new Covid threat,...
Rural America’s hidden hunger: Mobile food banks travel for hundreds of miles to reach ‘food deserts’
The cars arrive just as the sun is setting over the town of Williston, North Dakota. Hundreds of them...
Concerns About Coronavirus Variant Cut Off U.K. From Europe
LONDON — Britain was all but cut off from the rest of Europe on Monday, with flights and trains...
Leaders of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan talk over the phone
On 21 December 2020, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has held a telephone conversation with the...
Commission approves BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine
The European Commission moved days faster than expected and approved the BioNTech/Pfizer coronavirus vaccine today just hours after a...
EU on track for late Christmas present: A coronavirus vaccine
Press play to listen to this article On the darkest day of the year, the EU provided some light...
The reviews of the Vatican nativity are in, and they’re not so good
A couple stand in front of the Vatican’s new Christmas nativity scene in St Peter’s Square, trying to understand...