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News Articles: Europe

Covishield is the brand name used for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in India's Serum Institute, administered to millions of people, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. It's not on the list of approved vaccines for the European Union — although the AstraZeneca version made in the United Kingdom and at European sites is.

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Opinion: I'm Nigerian. I'm Vaccinated. Europe Won't Let Me In

Europe lists four approved vaccines for travelers. There's an omission that makes Nigerian physician Ifeanyi Nsofor feel invisible — and disappointed.

June 30, 2021
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  • Ifeanyi Nsofor
The Bagger 288, a bucket-wheel excavator, digs into the beet fields behind the farm of Norbert Winzen to expand Germany's Garzweiler coal mine, one of Europe's largest open-pit mines. Winzen's family is fighting coal mine operator RWE in an effort to save their village of Keyenberg, which is more than a thousand years old.

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  • Environment

A Coal-Mining 'Monster' Is Threatening To Swallow A Small Town In Germany

The thousand-year-old farming village of Keyenberg lies in the path of an expanding open-pit mine. Fighting to save the town is about more than Keyenberg. It's also about climate change.

June 29, 2021
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  • Rob Schmitz
The draft defines ecocide as "unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts."

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  • Environment

How 165 Words Could Make Mass Environmental Destruction An International Crime

A panel of lawyers from around the world proposes to make ecocide a crime that can be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court just like genocide and war crimes.

June 27, 2021
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  • Josie Fischels
The British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender in the port of Odessa, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Russia said it fired warning shots at the warship Wednesday when it entered territorial waters off Crimea.

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  • Europe

Russia Says It Fired Warning Shots At A British Warship Which Approached Crimea

Russia forcibly annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. The international community does not recognize Russian sovereignty over the peninsula.

June 23, 2021
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  • Lucian Kim
In a photo from March of last year, cars pass the illuminated Allianz Arena soccer stadium in Munich, Germany. UEFA has denied a request by the stadium to light up in rainbow colors Wednesday to protest a new Hungarian law seen as homophobic.

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  • Sports

German Stadiums Will Show Their Rainbow Colors To Support Hungary's LGBTQ Community

After a decision by UEFA to deny Munich's plan to light up its arena to protest a new Hungarian law seen as homophobic, other stadiums across the country said they would go ahead anyway.

June 23, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
President Biden waves as he prepares to depart the airport after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, on June 16.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: We Don't Need A Biden Doctrine Dividing The World Into Good And Bad

President Biden sees foreign policy as a battle between democracies and autocracies — and that's a flawed doctrine, according to analysts Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky.

June 22, 2021
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  • Aaron David Miller and
  • Richard Sokolsky
Stefan Lofven, Sweden's Social Democratic prime minister since 2014, lost a confidence vote in parliament Monday.

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  • World

Sweden's Prime Minister Has Lost A Confidence Vote In Parliament

The loss for Stefan Lofven, Sweden's Social Democratic prime minister, comes amid a housing crisis and skyrocketing real estate prices that have made buying property increasingly hard.

June 21, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
People enjoy the May sunshine from the cafe terraces of Brussels' Grand Place. On Friday, European Union added the United States to the list of countries whose citizens and residents should be allowed to travel freely within the bloc.

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  • Europe

EU Opens The Door To American Travelers. But Be Sure To Read The Fine Print

The European Union has recommended that Americans be allowed to travel freely throughout the bloc. But each member country sets its own rules for entry.

June 19, 2021
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  • Teri Schultz
WISA Woodsat, seen in an artist's rendering, is billed as the world's first wooden satellite. It's set to be launched from New Zealand before the end of the year.

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  • Space

Where No Plywood Has Gone Before: A Space Agency Will Launch A Tiny, Wooden Satellite

In Europe, engineers are planning to send a plywood-sheathed satellite into orbit to test how well the venerable construction material holds up in space.

June 18, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
President Biden is set to leave Brussels on Tuesday for Geneva, the last leg of a trip where he sought to mend fences with allies and take a tougher stance on Moscow and Beijing.

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  • Politics

Biden And The EU Call A Truce In A 17-Year Trade Fight To Focus On Threats From China

Biden tried to repair ties with European allies and convinced them to take a tougher stance on China. Next he'll confront Russia. But selling this at home remains the hardest part.

June 15, 2021
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  • Franco Ordoñez
People with old Belarusian national flags shout during an opposition rally in August in Minsk, Belarus.

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  • World

5 Views From Belarus On The Country's Political Crisis

Nearly a year after Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko's crackdown, "None of us doubt that we will prevail," an activist tells NPR. Others sound worried. "Every day is a little scarier," says one.

June 15, 2021
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  • Lucian Kim
Queen Elizabeth II and President Biden walk at Windsor Castle on Sunday in Windsor, England. This is Biden's first private meeting with Queen Elizabeth II since becoming president.

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  • World

Biden Has Private Visit With Queen Elizabeth II, Who 'Reminded Me Of My Mother'

Queen Elizabeth II has now met with 13 U.S. presidents, going back to meeting Harry Truman when she was a princess.

June 14, 2021
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

Updates From President Biden's Europe Trip

The latest from Joe Biden's first overseas trip as President, attending the G7 meeting in Cornwall, UK.

June 12, 2021
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  • Franco Ordoñez
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive Wednesday at Royal Air Force Mildenhall in England ahead of the G-7 summit. The president will try to reestablish U.S. global leadership and repair old friendships.

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  • World

World Leaders Are Meeting To Tackle Climate Change And Pandemic Recovery

Polls show that President Biden's rhetoric and policy changes have already improved America's image in parts of Europe. But analysts say he must also reach substantive agreements with G-7 countries.

June 11, 2021
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  • Frank Langfitt
A sculpture created out of electronic waste in the likeness of Mount Rushmore and the G-7 leaders sits on a hill in Cornwall, England, near where the leaders of the world's wealthiest nations will meet.

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  • Environment

2 Artists Want G-7 Leaders To End E-Waste. So They Sculpted Them Out Of Trash

Made of circuit boards and smartphones, a giant sculpture of the leaders of the world's wealthiest nations is greeting them at a summit in England. The creators want to raise awareness about e-waste.

June 11, 2021
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  • Frank Langfitt
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