The UK now has the highest coronavirus death rate in the world, shocking data has revealed. Britain was averaging 935 daily fatalities in the week up to January 17, or the equivalent of 16.5 people in every million. Statistics compiled by the Oxford University-based research platform Our World in Data shows no other country currently … Read more
As deaths from Covid-19 in our hospitals reach a new high, while the country endures a third lockdown in the dispiriting cold and damp of a British winter, we need a boost to our national self-belief. As it happens, there is a genuine reason to feel such positive emotion — and, believe it or not, … Read more
As deaths from Covid-19 in our hospitals reach a new high, while the country endures a third lockdown in the dispiriting cold and damp of a British winter, we need a boost to our national self-belief. As it happens, there is a genuine reason to feel such positive emotion — and, believe it or not, … Read more
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo leads world condemnation of Kremlin for arresting Alexei Navalny – but Moscow hits back telling Americans: ‘Deal with problems in your own country’ Mike Pompeo said he was ‘deeply troubled by Russia’s decision to arrest’ Navalny UK’s Foreign Office said Moscow was ‘persecuting the victim’ of a ‘terrible crime’ EU … Read more
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo leads world condemnation of Kremlin for arresting Alexei Navalny – but Moscow hits back telling Americans: ‘Deal with problems in your own country’ Mike Pompeo said he was ‘deeply troubled by Russia’s decision to arrest’ Navalny UK’s Foreign Office said Moscow was ‘persecuting the victim’ of a ‘terrible crime’ EU … Read more
A tiny Cornish seaside village is to host world leaders in the first in-person meeting of the G7 in almost two years in June. For Boris Johnson’s first major summit in the UK, he has picked Carbis Bay in Britain’s most southerly county for the gathering, where he hopes to unite leaders on a message of … Read more
A tiny Cornish seaside village is to host world leaders in the first in-person meeting of the G7 in almost two years in June. For Boris Johnson’s first major summit in the UK, he has picked Carbis Bay in Britain’s most southerly county for the gathering, where he hopes to unite leaders on a message of … Read more
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The world needs to know exactly what happened in Wuhan By Mail On Sunday Comment For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:00 GMT, 17 January 2021 | Updated: 00:09 GMT, 17 January 2021 The mystery of Wuhan – did the Covid-19 outbreak originate in a state laboratory there? – has now … Read more
It has taken 14 months since a sinister new disease emerged in Wuhan for the global health body responsible for protecting the world to be allowed into the Chinese city to investigate the origins of the pandemic. The belated arrival last week of a team from the World Health Organisation (WHO) follows persistent stonewalling from Beijing … Read more
It has taken 14 months since a sinister new disease emerged in Wuhan for the global health body responsible for protecting the world to be allowed into the Chinese city to investigate the origins of the pandemic. The belated arrival last week of a team from the World Health Organisation (WHO) follows persistent stonewalling from Beijing … Read more