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Portugal holds presidential election on Sunday as COVID-19 cases spiral

Portuguese voters - largely confined to their homes due to a strict COVID-19 lockdown - will pick a new president on Sunday, but many fear going to the polls could worsen a surge in coronavirus cases and low turnout is expected. The country of 10 million people, which fared better than ...

Larry King, American broadcasting icon, dies aged 87 – Updated

Larry King, the giant of American broadcasting, died at the age of 87. King died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Ora Media, the studio and network he co-founded, tweeted. No cause of death was given, but CNN had earlier reported he was hospitalized wit...

UPDATED: Navalny’s wife among those held in Russian protests

The wife of Alexei Navalny is one of hundreds reportedly detained at a series of demonstrations in support of the jailed Putin critic across Russia. Yulia Navalnaya was held at a rally in Moscow - the location for one of up to 70 marches this weekend. Police detained more than 200 pe...

Sweden’s Trustly plans $11 billion IPO as digital payments boom

Swedish payments firm Trustly plans to take advantage of a surge in digital transactions in the COVID-19 pandemic with a second-quarter flotation that could value it at up to 9 billion euros ($11 billion), people close to the matter said. The initial public offering (IPO), likely in Sto...

Malta: PN calls for shift towards higher-quality tourism

In-Nazzjon quotes PN Leader Bernard Grech who said that, while tourism remains the biggest sector in Malta, it needs to be transformed to offer a top product that attracts higher quality tourism. The paper reports that three Covid-19 patients died in the last 24 hours aged 92, 93, and 1...

Malta: Leaks to Yorgen Fenech lead to suspension of police inspector

The Times reports that inspector Elton Taliana has been suspended over suspicions that he may have leaked information about ongoing police investigations to lawyer Charles Mercieca, one of Yorgen Fenech legal representatives. The paper says that health authorities are set to introduce n...

MEPs vote to add Channel and British Virgin Islands to tax haven blacklist

The European parliament is pushing for UK overseas territories including the British Virgin Islands, Guernsey and Jersey to be added to an EU tax havens blacklist after the conclusion of the Brexit deal. Sending a signal that tougher action on tax avoidance was required in response to t...

Privacy complaint targets European Parliament’s virus test site

A privacy activist filed a complaint with an EU watchdog on Friday over the European Parliament's COVID-19 testing app for its staff, saying it could be transferring data illegally to the United States. The Austrian privacy advocacy group Noybaid, led by Max Schrems it had taken i...

EXCLUSIVE-AstraZeneca to cut EU’s COVID-19 vaccine deliveries by 60% in Q1 -EU source

BRUSSELS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - AstraZeneca told European Union officials on Friday it would cut deliveries of its COVID-19 vaccine to the bloc by 60% to 31 million doses in the first quarter of the year due to production problems, a senior official told Reuters. The company was expected t...

MEPs vote to add Channel and British Virgin Islands to tax haven blacklist

EU to seek more time to ratify trade deal with UK – FT

The Financial Times reports that the EU is set to ask Britain for more time to ratify the new trade deal despite the UK urging the EU to press ahead quickly, with the issue becoming a fresh point of tension between the two sides. The report states that the diplomats which are quoted b...

UK stars from Ed Sheeran to Elton John raise alarm over post-Brexit music tours

More than 100 British musicians, from Ed Sheeran, Sting and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters to classical stars like conductor Simon Rattle, have said tours of Europe by British artists are in danger because of Brexit. In a letter to The Times newspaper published on Wednesday, the musicians sa...

CDE News Views – This Day in Photos

Today's salient news in pictures as taken by the pool of photographers of EPA/EFE for CDE News. Stay informed daily with www.cde.news, for local perspective with a global outlook. A man stands next to a Lebanese flag on a bridge overlooking the damaged Beirut port and grain silos, i...

U.K. consumer confidence falls back in January on economy worries – GfK

A gauge of confidence among British consumers slipped back in January because of worries about the economy which has been largely locked down again, a survey showed. The consumer confidence index from market research firm GfK fell to -28 from -26 in December, when it jumped by the most ...

Iran to begin COVID-19 vaccinations in coming weeks

President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that COVID-19 vaccinations will begin in the coming weeks in Iran, the Middle East’s worst hit country. “Foreign vaccines are a necessity until local vaccines are available,” Rouhani said in televised remarks, without giving details of what fore...