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BRUSSELS: British and European negotiators were sent back to work on Sunday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen agreed to abandon their supposed make-or-break deadline. The pair had said last week they would decide whether an agreement was possible by the end of Sunday, but after a cross-Channel crisis call they agreed to “go …

In order to increase Pakistan’s testing capacity for the novel coronavirus, Future Trust and Opencell UK collaborated to launch the country’s first robot-operated Covid-19 testing laboratory in Islamabad on Wednesday. The Future Labs, which can conduct up to 2,000 tests per day, was inaugurated by British High Commissioner Christian Turner. Future Trust — a non-profit organisation (NPO) set up by …

BERLIN: German football champions Bayern Munich kicked off their first match in more than two months on Sunday as Spain and Britain recorded their lowest daily coronavirus death tolls since March, but the devastating pandemic remained on the march elsewhere. With a worldwide virus death toll of nearly 312,000 and the global economy reeling from the vast damage caused by …

LONDON: Deaths from the global coronavirus epidemic accelerated again on Friday as the US, Spain and Britain grappled with their highest tolls yet and the world economy took a massive hit. With more than 53,000 dead, the threat has never been more stark. Experts warn the more than one million cases of Covid-19 confirmed globally are probably just a small …

PARIS: France, Germany, Britain and the European Union said Monday they are “extremely concerned” by Iran´s decision to re-start nuclear activities at one of its key sites, in breach of a landmark 2015 deal with international powers. “The Foreign Ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom and the High Representative of the European Union are extremely concerned by the …

LONDON: Britain´s three-year Brexit saga took another dramatic twist on Tuesday, with the outcome still tortuously tough to predict. In a landmark vote, MPs finally backed an EU divorce deal — only then to reject Prime Minister Boris Johnson´s rushed timetable to turn it into law ahead of the country´s scheduled October 31 departure date. The decision makes that deadline …

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar said they could see a route towards striking a possible Brexit divorce deal, following a crunch meeting on Thursday. “Both continue to believe a deal is in everybody’s interest. They agreed that they could see a pathway to a possible deal,” the pair said in a joint statement. There …

LONDON: Britain’s Brexit negotiators are to meet their EU counterparts twice a week throughout September, London said Thursday, in a bid to strike a new divorce deal. Britain is due to leave the European Union on October 31 without a withdrawal agreement, unless one can be struck and then approved by parliament. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s predecessor Theresa May struck …

BRUSSELS: British Prime Minister Theresa May and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker sparred on Thursday during “robust” talks on the UK’s Brexit plans, and agreed to hold more negotiations that could push the sealing of any deal to within a month of Britain’s scheduled departure. Looking at the ever tighter deadline and yawning divisions, May said “it’s not going to …