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Prince William says he is concerned about the mental health of U.K. ambulance drivers, police officers and other first responders who are being exposed to extraordinary levels of trauma and death as coronavirus cases soar

School closures have a clear negative impact on children’s health, the United Nations health agency has warned.

France is known to be one of the most vaccine-skeptic nations in the world, and that makes its Covid-19 immunization drive much harder.

The identification of a new Covid variant comes as countries scramble to contain two other contagious strains that have emerged in the U.K. and South Africa.

England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty warned that the “next few weeks are going to be the worst weeks” of the coronavirus pandemic for the U.K.’s NHS.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday declared a major incident over the rapid spread of the coronavirus in the U.K.’s capital city.

A British judge has denied bail to WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, who has been jailed in Britain since 2019 as he fights extradition to the United States

A British judge has rejected a request by the United States to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges

The vaccination drive against the coronavirus is entering a new phase

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a new national lockdown for England until at least mid-February to combat a fast-spreading new version of the coronavirus

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday a new national lockdown for England until at least mid-February to combat a fast-spreading new variant of the coronavirus, even as Britain ramped up its vaccination program by becoming the first nation to start using the shot developed by Oxford University and drugmaker AstraZeneca.

A new variant of the coronavirus identified in South Africa is more of a risk than the mutation found in the U.K., according to Britain’s health minister.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that more onerous lockdown restrictions in England are likely as the country reels from a new variant of the coronavirus that has seen infection rates soar to their highest recorded levels

Some British citizens trying to return to their homes in Spain and other European countries have been barred from boarding flights this weekend

A steady trickle of trucks is rolling off ferries and trains at either end of the English Channel after a seismic overnight shift in relations between the European Union and Britain.

The post-Brexit age ends four fraught years of political negotiations since Britain’s 2016 referendum on EU membership.

Britain’s Parliament has voted resoundingly to approve a trade deal with the European Union, paving the way for an orderly break with the bloc that will finally complete the U.K.’s years-long Brexit journey

Britain has become the first country to authorize AstraZeneca’s inexpensive, easy-to-handle COVID-19 vaccine

Colorado Governor Jared Polis said Tuesday the COVID-19 variant first detected in the United Kingdom had been detected in Colorado. U.K. scientists believe the variant is more contagious than previous strains of the virus.

A smaller sample of virus sequences means the new mutation could already be present in the country without having been detected, the CDC says.