Tag: Britain
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 28, 2020
Britain, US working with Saudi to repatriate citizens
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabian Airlines will begin exceptional commercial flights this week to bring British nationals and their families back to the United Kingdom, and similar flights are being arranged for US citizens to return home, both countries said. Flights to London Heathrow will begin on Sunday (Mar 29) from Riyadh and later in the week
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 24, 2020
Britain in lockdown as WHO warns pandemic ‘accelerating’
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LONDON: Britain was under lockdown on Tuesday (Mar 24), its population joining around 1.7 billion people around the globe ordered to stay indoors to curb the “accelerating” spread of the coronavirus. Across Europe, Asia, North America, the Middle East and parts of Africa, governments have told their citizens to remain at home as they grapple with
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 21, 2020
Shame on you, Britain tells coronavirus panic-buyers
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LONDON: Britain on Saturday (Mar 21) told people who were panic-buying and hoarding food due to the coronavirus outbreak to calm down, pointing to a video on social media showing an exhausted nurse driven to tears by finding shelves bare after her shift. Shoppers have been emptying the shelves in many supermarkets over the past week,
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 16, 2020
Britain set to isolate older people as COVID-19 deaths rise to 35
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LONDON: Britain will isolate older people “within weeks” and force into quarantine anyone diagnosed with coronavirus, the government said as it stepped up measures that have so far been less stringent than elsewhere in Europe. The British Heath Secretary Matt Hancock said people aged over 70 would be shielded from the virus by self-isolating for
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 6, 2020
Europeans, Britain raise North Korea missile launches at UN Security Council
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UNITED NATIONS: Britain, Germany, France, Estonia and Belgium raised North Korea’s latest missile launches behind closed-doors in the United Nations Security Council on Thursday (Mar 5), condemning the tests as a provocative action in violation of UN resolutions. North Korea fired two short-range missiles off the east coast into the sea on Monday, resuming testing after
