Britain and Turkey are set to sign a free trade agreement on Tuesday, the UK Department of Commerce announced tonight. It will be the first such deal since Prime Minister Boris Johnson secured a new trade deal with the European Union last week. The agreement between Britain and Turkey reproduces the current rules governing Ankara-London trade relations, but Minister Liz...
The number of coronavirus patients being treated in England is higher than at the peak of the first wave and the number of infections has reached a new record, according to a British health official. Yesterday, Monday morning, 20,426 people were hospitalized in England from the disease, compared to 18,974 at the peak of the first wave, on April 12....
Britain needs to vaccinate two million people a week against the coronavirus to avoid a third wave of the epidemic, according to research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). More than 2.3 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the country so far and more than 71,000 deaths from the disease as of Monday, according...
In the wake of the London-Brussels Brexit agreement, the United Kingdom is now seeking to sign trade agreements with Australia, the United States and countries in the India-Pacific region, according to British Foreign Secretary Dominique Raab. “We are seeking to sign trade agreements from Australia to the United States, but also with the whole world. “Especially with the India-Pacific region,...
The United Kingdom is now cut off from most of Europe after travel was cut off by its closest allies over fears of a new coronavirus being found in the country, wreaking havoc on families and companies just days before end of the transitional period for Britain’s exit from the EU. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Israel and...
“Please, help us leave!”, A German woman begs in a video that is circulating on social networking sites. He is among dozens of passengers on flights from Britain who were stranded at German airports Sunday night through Monday. Cause: the new, much more contagious strain of SARS-CoV-2, found in the United Kingdom. At Hanover Airport in the north of the...