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Pete Buttigieg faces Senate panel hearing over Transportation nomination

President Joe Biden's nominee to head the U.S. Transportation Department will tell a U.S. Senate panel on Thursday the United States must improve its infrastructure. "We also have a lot of work to do to improve the infrastructure in this country, a mission that will not only keep more p...

Biden to order masks on planes and trains, increase disaster funds to fight coronavirus

President Joe Biden will sign 10 executive orders on Thursday to fight the coronavirus pandemic, including directing that disaster funds be used to help reopen schools and requiring that people wear masks on planes and buses, officials said. Biden, a Democrat who took over from Republic...

U.S. intends to join COVAX and remain WHO member – Fauci

The United States under President Joe Biden intends to join the COVAX vaccine facility that aims to deliver vaccines to poor countries, his chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci told the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed ...

PM pushes for EU vaccine certificate – Malta News Briefing – Thursday 21 January 2021

Updated 1145: 16 cruise liners berthed in Malta in last three months of 2020 Total cruise passenger traffic during the fourth quarter of 2020 amounted to 11,825, a decrease of 92.9 per cent over the corresponding period in 2019, the NSO said today. There were 16 cruise liner calls durin...

Maltese Editors’ Perspectives

The Times of Malta describes the responsibilities which newly-elected US President Joe Biden is facing, saying the primary goals should be to restore his country's global leadership, reassert its faith in democratic norms and principles. The Independent discusses the financial issues fa...

Malta: University study finds unique traits in Maltese ALS patients

The Independent quotes findings from a University of Malta research into ALS. The results show that the disease in Maltese patients affects different genes than those in European counterparts, giving scientists a better understanding of the causes of ALS. The paper says that former PN L...

Spain pushes for vaccine certificates to ease travel resumption

Spain is pushing the European Union and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development for the creation of a COVID-19 vaccine certification that would ease travel, Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez said on Thursday. "Vaccine certification is something we are going towards in...

ECB to chart steady course even as the outlook dulls

The European Central Bank is widely expected by analysts to keep its easy money policy unchanged on Thursday but hold the door wide open to further stimulus as the spreading second wave of COVID-19 dims an already weak outlook. Having extended stimulus well into next year with a massive...

MEP Alfred Sant questions transparency of EU strategy for Covid-19 vaccinations

Labour MEP Alfred Sant has questioned the implementation of the EU global strategy on COVID-19 vaccinations and said that many questions remain over the transparency of the whole deployment process of vaccines. Under the EU Vaccines Strategy launched in June 2020, the European Commissio...

UK and EU in row over bloc’s diplomatic status

Britain is refusing to give full diplomatic status to the European Union’s ambassador in London, causing a row between the recently divorced parties, the BBC reported on Thursday. Britain, an EU member for 46 years, voted to quit in 2016 and completed its tortuous journey out of the blo...

Software data shows freight groups avoiding UK, prices rising

An increasing number of freight groups rejected contracts to move goods from France into Britain in the second week of January, while prices rose, according to data that shows the impact of Brexit and COVID-19 on UK trade. Transporeon, a German software company that provides a network f...

‘Brexit carnage’: shellfish trucks protest in London over export delays

LONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - More than 20 shellfish trucks parked on roads near the British parliament and Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Downing Street residence on Monday to protest against post-Brexit bureaucracy that has throttled exports to the European Union. Many fishermen have bee...

Pete Buttigieg faces Senate panel hearing over Transportation nomination

UK minister hopes teachers will be prioritised for vaccines

Britain's education minister Gavin Williamson said on Thursday he hoped that teachers would be "up the list" for receiving a COVID-19 vaccine when the first wave of vaccinations is completed. Britain aims to give shots to 15 million people by mid-February, including the eldest, most vul...

Dubai cancels non-essential surgery, live entertainment as COVID-19 cases surge

Dubai has suspended non-essential surgery for a month and live entertainment in hotels and restaurants until further notice as coronavirus infections surge in the Middle East trade hub. The decision to postpone certain surgeries, which takes effect midnight on Thursday and could be exte...