Month: November 2021

LONDON (AP) — A top European Union court has rejected Google’s appeal against a 2.4 billion euro antitrust penalty from the bloc’s competition watchdog. The EU’s executive Commission had punished Google in 2017 for unfairly favoring its own online shopping recommendations in its search results. The European Court of Justice’s General Court said that it

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union’s drug regulator says it has started evaluating whether to authorize Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. The Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency already is evaluating the vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech for use in the 5-11 age group. In a statement on Wednesday, the EMA said it anticipates

By CHARLENE PELE Associated Press BRESCIA, Italy (AP) — Two German men have gone on trial in northern Italy in connection with a boat crash in Italy’s Lake Garda that killed two Italians who were also out on the lake that night. Patrick Kassen was allegedly at the helm of the Germans’ motorboat during the

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization is reporting that coronavirus deaths rose by 10% in Europe in the past week, making it the only world region where both COVID-19 cases and deaths are steadily increasing. It was the sixth consecutive week that the virus has risen across the continent. In its weekly report on

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry says he warned the chief executive of Twitter ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that the social media site was being used to stage political unrest in the U.S. capital. Harry made the comments Tuesday during a panel on misinformation in California. He said he made his concerns

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says workers are using excavators to clear debris from the site in eastern Turkey where a two-story building collapsed, injuring 13 people. The building, which housed a coffee house and other shops, collapsed in the city of Malatya on Tuesday. Turkey’s emergency agencies dispatched over 260 personnel