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By Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Health Secretary Matt Hancock arrives at 10 Downing Street on 1 May 2020Alberto Pezzali/AP/ShutterstockLatest coronavirus news as of 6 pm on 1 May UK government hits 100,000 daily tests target by including unanalysed tests UK health secretary Matt…

Image copyright AFP Image caption In Syria, which recorded its first coronavirus death in late March, the war has entered its 10th year Over the past few months, the coronavirus pandemic has absorbed all the energy of the news cycle. There hasn't been an event like it in our lifetimes.But…

(Bloomberg) --European Union finance ministers agreed on a 540 billion-euro ($590 billion) package of measures to combat the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, papering over differences that have thrown into question the EU’s future integrity.In an emergency teleconference on Thursday, the bloc’s finance chiefs approved a plan to stave…

View photosBritain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Dominic Raab, leads cabinet members as they leave 10 Downing Street after a meeting as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms worsened in London, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Johnson was admitted to St Thomas'…

This opinion piece was written just prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic in the West. The authors believe that the pandemic will increase the necessity and therefore the probability of fiscal integration in the eurozone. Based on the leading economic indicators, the eurozone economy may be heading for…

 hey could have known. They should have prepared. They didn’t listen. Europe, in early April, remains the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic — where the outbreak, uncontrolled, morphed into catastrophe. Nearly 50,000 dead. More than 600,000 infected. And the devastation is far from over. The world’s largest economy is paralyzed.…

When Boris Johnson announced he had tested positive for coronavirus, Downing Street said Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab would deputise if the British prime minister was incapacitated. Few expected him to do so, as Johnson and his office repeatedly maintained the prime minister's symptoms were mild. But after Johnson was taken…

(Bloomberg) -- Dominic Raab, the man at the helm of the British government while Boris Johnson is hospitalized, has been both an ally and a rival to his boss.During the Brexit campaign in 2016, Raab campaigned alongside Johnson successfully to break away from the European Union. Three years later, the…

It’s one of history’s greatest illustrations of ingratitude. In July 1945, fresh from his near-superhuman triumph in World War II, Winston Churchill led Britain’s Conservative party to one of its worst ever defeats. Voters decided that a wartime prime minister was no longer needed, thanks, and they tossed him aside…

By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Labour Party will elect a new leader on Saturday, with Brexit policy chief Keir Starmer the frontrunner to take over a deeply divided party that, under veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn, suffered a crushing defeat in a December election. The finale of the leadership…