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AstraZeneca to supply Europe with up to 400 million doses of Oxford University’s vaccine at no profit

Company exploring further additional global capacity to provide broad and equitable access AstraZeneca has reached an agreement with Europe’s Inclusive...

Johnson & Johnson Announces Acceleration of its COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate; Phase 1/2a Clinical Trial to Begin in Second Half of July

The study will take place in the U.S. and Belgium. Johnson & Johnson announced that through its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies...

CARTOON OF THE MONTH

"Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur" ("Where there is no freedom to blame, there can be...

SUPER OR SUPINE? The EU’s craven response to bullying by China

Josep Borrell High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy© Wikicommons On May 9, in a statement...

STEFAN LÖFVEN. The Nordic Model endures

In 1766, Sweden became the first country in the world to introduce a constitutional law to abolish censorship. To commemorate...

TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT (OF SIGHT) – The darknet gains drug seekers in lockdown

NIST Tests Forensic Methods for Getting Data From Damaged Mobile Phones

Researchers put law enforcement hacking tools to the test. Criminals sometimes damage their mobile phones in an attempt to destroy...

A EUROPEAN JOINT OPERATION DISMANTLES A VAST TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANISATION WHOSE ACTIVITIES YIELD € 680 MILLION

A highly skilled and dangerous foreign organized crime organization has been recently disbanded following a complex investigation carried out within...

HEROES, VILLAINS and SPIES The cold war heats up in Prague

Years ago, I went to Budapest to make a television programme about two men still being punished for their rôles...

PANDAS CAN BITE China is not as cuddly as it likes to pretend

Pandas are members of the ailuropodidae family, a very small family of mammals evolutionarily (but not very closely) linked to...

Health June 14, 2020

AstraZeneca to supply Europe with up to 400 million doses of Oxford University’s vaccine at no profit

Company exploring further additional global capacity to provide broad and equitable access AstraZeneca has reached an agreement with Europe’s Inclusive Vaccines Alliance (IVA), spearheaded by Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, to supply up to…