Britain and Japan are set to sign a trade deal on Friday at a ceremony in Tokyo, marking London's first major post-Brexit agreement as it holds an intense round of negotiations with the European Union.
Slovenia's government on Thursday announced it is reimposing the kind of partial shutdown of public life which the country saw earlier this year, as it struggles with rising numbers of coronavirus infections.
Irish police arrested 11 Dublin protesters for breaching coronavirus regulations, a spokesman said Thursday, as the Republic became the first EU nation to return to lockdown.
France on Thursday extended the anti-Covid curfew in place in nine cities to large parts of the country, leaving 46 million forced to stay indoors at night.
The US Food and Drug Administration says it has approved the antiviral drug remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19, based on data from multiple clinical trials. This is the first drug to be approved for the disease in the United States.
