As expected, the UK announced on Monday that it would suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in what is seen as an escalation of a dispute with China over its introduction of a national security law for the former British colony. 

A potential coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has produced a promising immune response in a large, early-stage human trial, according to newly released data published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet.

UK will on Monday suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong in a further escalation of its dispute with China over the introduction of a security law in the former colony, British outlets reported during the weekend.

The interior ministers of France and Britain on Sunday signed an agreement creating a new joint police intelligence unit to combat migrant traffickers and reduce the "unsustainable" numbers crossing the Channel illegall, news wires reported.

Only five years ago, then-British Prime Minister David Cameron was celebrating a “golden era” in UK-China relations, bonding with President Xi Jinping over a pint of beer at the pub and signing off on trade deals worth billions. Those friendly scenes now seem like a distant memory.

The Dutch government is taking Russia to the European Court of Human Rights for its alleged role in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine six years ago, the foreign minister announced Friday.

Norway will lift travel restrictions to and from more than 20 European countries from 15 July, including France, Germany and Britain as well as three of the 21 provinces of neighbouring Sweden, the government of PM Erna Solberg announced on Friday.

The British government of PM Boris Johnson has decided not to join a European Union coronavirus vaccine scheme because of concerns there could be costly delays in securing the vaccines, according The Telegraph, which cited  sources. The European Commission is expected to be notified on Friday.

The British government has announced more than 1.5 billion pounds (€1.73 billion, almost $2 billion) to help the country’s renowned arts and cultural institutions recover from the coronavirus pandemic, after some theatres and music venues warned that without support they might never open again.

Boris Johnson wants a haircut and a beer. Like millions of other Britons, the prime minister will be able to have a trim and a tipple on Saturday, when the country takes its biggest step yet out of coronavirus lockdown with the reopening in England of restaurants, pubs and hairdressers, along with secular and sacred venues including cinemas and churches.