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Leaders to sign UK-EU deal as MPs face express debate

The UK and European Union will Wednesday sign a mammoth trade pact to put the seal on their drawn-out Brexit divorce in the dwindling hours before they part ways definitively at the dawning of 2021. EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel will ink the 1,246-page Trade and...

Brexit 'big bang' to trigger tectonic trading rift in Europe

- Europe will see its biggest transfer of share trading in more than two decades when stock exchanges open for business in 2021, with Brexit shifting its centre of gravity away from London. While market players hope that years of preparations since Britain voted to leave the European Union...

EU's marathon COVID vaccination drive off to uneven start

 The EU campaign to vaccinate Europeans against COVID-19 has got off to an uneven start in what will be a marathon effort to administer shots to enough of the bloc's 450 million people to defeat the viral pandemic. The vaccination drive kicked off at the weekend, with health workers...

Loujain al-Hathloul: 'Fierce' Saudi women's rights campaigner

Loujain al-Hathloul, who was sentenced on Monday to five years and eight months' prison, has become emblematic of the fight for women's rights in Saudi Arabia. The 31-year-old long campaigned for women to be able to drive and for an end to the kingdom's notorious guardianship system, which...