Johnson ‘set to green-light holidays to 95 destinations’ – but only a dozen will let Britons enter

Boris Johnson ‘is set to green-light holidays to 95 destinations’ – but only a dozen will have air bridges in place to let Britons enter from Day One on Monday Boris Johnson is set to announce Britons can travel to the majority of the EU Other permitted destinations will include all British overseas territories and … Read more

Johnson ‘set to green-light holidays to 95 destinations’ – but only a dozen will let Britons enter

Boris Johnson ‘is set to green-light holidays to 95 destinations’ – but only a dozen will have air bridges in place to let Britons enter from Day One on Monday Boris Johnson is set to announce Britons can travel to the majority of the EU Other permitted destinations will include all British overseas territories and … Read more

China passes feared security law in Hong Kong

China has boasted of holding ‘a sword over lawbreakers’ heads’ after Beijing passed a new security law giving it unprecedented jurisdiction over Hong Kong. President Xi Jinping signed the law into effect Tuesday after it was unanimously passed by Beijing’s rubber-stamp parliament, side-stepping a vote in Hong Kong. The law bans acts of secession, subversion, … Read more

China passes feared security law in Hong Kong

Campaigners mourned ‘the end of Hong Kong as we know it’ today after China passed a sweeping new national security law which critics say will smother the city’s freedoms.  The legislation was unanimously approved by China’s rubber-stamp parliament, little more than six weeks after it was first unveiled.  Though the wording of the law has … Read more

Angela Merkel gives Emmanuel Macron the red carpet treatment – from six feet away

France and Germany aren’t quite as close as they used to be! Angela Merkel gives Emmanuel Macron the red carpet treatment – from six feet away German Chancellor Merkel and French President met at Meseberg Castle today Pair seemed at ease as they kept two-metres apart amid the coronavirus crisis  Talks came ahead of Germany … Read more

Satellite images reveal raging wildfires just 30 miles from the Arctic Ocean in Siberia

Ravaging wildfires are burning further north in the Russian Arctic than had previously been recorded from space. Images captured by a satellite have shown an out-of-control inferno just 30 miles from the Arctic Ocean in the Yakutia region. It comes in a summer of unprecedented heat in northern latitudes in Siberia with locals sunbathing, with … Read more