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FILE PHOTO: A man walks his dog past coronavirus artwork painted on the shuttered windows of a pub following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Dublin, Ireland, May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne DUBLIN (Reuters) – Northern Ireland gently eased its coronavirus restrictions on Monday, allowing small groups to meet outside and churchgoers to

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese air pollution rose in April for the first time since December, official data showed on Monday, with analysts attributing the rebound to the resumption of economic activity following the coronavirus outbreak. FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective face masks are seen at a park in Wuhan, the Chinese city hit the hardest

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain should set up “travel bubbles” with low-risk countries to allow the movement of people, instead of bringing in new coronavirus quarantine rules when flights restart, according to Heathrow Airport. FILE PHOTO: People sit amongst socially-distanced seating signs at Heathrow Airport, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London,

Men walk in Horse Guards Road in London, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 17, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people who have died in the United Kingdom after testing positive for COVID-19 rose by 170 to 34,636, business minister Alok Sharma said on Sunday, the

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted on Sunday that there was public frustration with his government’s measures to ease the coronavirus lockdown following widespread criticism of the new rules, which he admitted were more complex. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a daily news conference to update on the

LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal, which usually attracts huge mounds of rubbish from other European states because of its low waste management fees, has suspended imports of trash until the end of 2020 to protect domestic landfill capacity, the government said on Saturday. FILE PHOTO: Imported waste is seen piled at the port of Leixoes in

FILE PHOTO: Katie Ffolloitt-Powell of the Patient Transport Services of South Central Ambulance Services speaks to an elderly non-COVID-19 patient as she is moved from hospital to a care home, in Portsmouth, Britain May 5, 2020. Picture taken May 5, 2020. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Dogs’ ability to sniff out whether people

LONDON (Reuters) – A keenly-watched COVID-19 vaccine will be priced to allow as wide as possible access to it, if it proves successful, and will be made at huge scale to keep costs down and supply up, said the Oxford University professor co-leading its development. FILE PHOTO: Professor Adrian Hill speaks to members of the

FILE PHOTO: Desert locusts are seen on a tree at a ranch near the town of Nanyuki in Laikipia county, Kenya, February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran may use its military for a second year to help fight locusts that have invaded the south of the country, an Agricultural Ministry official was

LISBON (Reuters) – One of the many victims of the coronavirus pandemic is likely to be Portugal’s nascent progress in recycling waste, environmental campaigners say. FILE PHOTO: Trucks with garbage are seen at the Recivalongo landfill in Sobrado Portugal, January 8, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante Portugal, which recycles around 28% of its urban refuse, below the

FILE PHOTO: A cow stands on caked mud before a small patch of water at a dam as the region deals with a prolonged drought near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, January 18, 2020. Picture taken January 18, 2020. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s second biggest city of Bulawayo limited access to tap water to just one

FILE PHOTO: A man rows his boat in the tributary waters of Vembanad Lake against the backdrop of pre-monsoon clouds on the outskirts of Kochi, India, June 7, 2019. REUTERS/Sivaram V/File Photo NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Crop-nourishing monsoon rains are likely to reach Kerala state on India’s southern tip on June 5, four days later

LONDON (Reuters) – London’s transport operator, which has seen passenger numbers collapse due to coronavirus, said it had secured 1.6 billion pounds in government funding for cover a shortfall in revenue until October. People step off a train at Clapham Common underground station following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 14,

NHS workers react at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital during the Clap for our Carers campaign in support of the NHS, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 14, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs LONDON (Reuters) – Britons joined in a weekly nationwide round of applause on Thursday to pay tribute to care

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund is excluding some of the world’s biggest commodities firms from its portfolio for their use and production of coal, including Glencore (GLEN.L) and Anglo American (AAL.L). FILE PHOTO: The logo of commodities trader Glencore is pictured in front of the company’s headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, September 30,

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is in talks with Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG (ROG.S) on rolling out an accurate COVID-19 antibody test that it said could be a ‘game changer’ on getting the world’s fifth largest economy back to work. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Swiss drugmaker Roche at its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, January