Pub pints, museum visits and car boot sales are back as COVID restrictions ease in Scotland and Wales
Restrictions are easing in Scotland and Wales today, with retail and hospitality the main sectors to benefit.
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GREEKS ABROAD 
April 26, 2021 Chicago Restaurant Santorini Shuts Down, Greektown is Changing
The advent of spring and easing of COVID-19 restrictions that had seen many a restaurant go out of business also has brought the end of the popular Chicago eatery Santorini, with landlords seeking to recoup losses too.
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CYPRUS
April 26, 2021 Cyprus President heads to Geneva informal conference with full agenda
President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades departs for Geneva on the morning of April 26, where he will participate in the informal conference on Cyprus, convened by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and which will take place between April 27 – 29. The President of the Republic will be accompanied by members of […]
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GREEKS ABROAD
April 26, 2021 MEP: EU Council is ‘obliged’ to introduce democracy conditionality with Turkey
All aspects of the EU’s relationship with Turkey should introduce the question of democratic conditionality, a leading MEP has told EURACTIV.
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HISTORY
April 26, 2021 26 April 2021: This day in history
1478: Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo de’Medici and kill Giuliano de’Medici in Florence 1920: Harlow Shapley and Heber D. Curtis hold “great debate” on the nature of nebulae, galaxies and size of the universe at US National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 1945: Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of France’s Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II, arrested for treason 1956: First modern […]
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WORLD
April 25, 2021 Biden officially recognizes the massacre of Armenians in World War I as a genocide
(CNN)President Joe Biden on Saturday became the first US president to officially recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, risking a potential fracture with Turkey but signaling a commitment to global human rights.
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UK NEWS
April 25, 2021 Police injured and protesters arrested at anti-lockdown demonstration in London
Police in London said on Saturday they arrested five people, and eight officers were injured, after disorder at large-scale protest against England’s remaining coronavirus restrictions, the mandatory use of masks and possible introduction of so-called vaccine passports.
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ENVIRONMENT
April 25, 2021 MI6 ‘green spying’ on world’s biggest polluters
The Secret Intelligence Service has begun monitoring large industrial countries to make sure they uphold their climate change commitments, the chief of MI6 has revealed.
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WORLD
April 25, 2021 U.S. Is Under Pressure to Release Vaccine Supplies as India Faces Deadly Surge
Biden administration officials are coming under increasing pressure to lift restrictions on exports of supplies that vaccine makers in India say they need to expand production amid a devastating surge in Covid-19 deaths there.
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UK NEWS
April 25, 2021 ‘Stench of sleaze’: PM faces growing calls to explain how he funded Downing Street flat refurb
There are growing calls for Boris Johnson to explain how the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat was paid for.
