UK to ration COVID testing amid failures
London: The British Government plans to ration coronavirus testing, giving priority to health workers and care home staff after widespread reports that people around the country were unable to schedule tests. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday will face questions about his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in the House of Commons and before a key committee amid the outcry over the shortage of testing.
Barbados To Remove UK Queen As State Head
London: Barbados wants to remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic, the Caribbean nation’s government has said. A former British colony that gained independence in 1966, Barbados has maintained a formal link with the British monarchy as have some other countries that were once part of the British empire.
N Korea may conduct missile test: seoul
Seoul: North Korea may soon conduct its first underwater-launched ballistic missile test in about a year, a top South Korean military official said amid long-stalled nuclear talks between the North and the US.
‘EU sanctions to halt Turkey’s gas search’
Nicosia: The European Union shouldn’t discard imposing tougher sanctions to get Turkey to give up an “unlawful” hydrocarbons search in the eastern Mediterranean that has ratcheted up tensions, the president of Cyprus said.
Smoke From US Fires Reaches Europe
Paris: Smoke from the fires devastating swathes of the US West Coast has reached as far as Europe, the European Union’s climate monitoring service said Wednesday in its assessment of the “unprecedented” blazes.
Trump: Vaccine Could Be Ready In A Month
Philadelphia: President Donald Trump said a coronavirus vaccine may be available within a month — an acceleration of even his own surprisingly optimistic predictions — but added that the pandemic could go away by itself. “We’re very close to having a vaccine,” he told a town hall question-and-answer session with voters in Pennsylvania aired on ABC News.