British PM Boris Johnson will seek to play down tensions with Scotland during a visit on Thursday, news wires reported. The ties that bind the kingdom’s constituent parts - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - have been badly strained by Brexit and the coronavirus outbreak.

Switzerland expanded on Wednesday the number of territories on its watchlist of coronavirus hot spots to 42, with arrivals from it must enter a ten-day quarantine, health authorities. Since 6 July people entering Switzerland from a country with an increased risk of infection have been legally mandated to go into quarantine or face a 10,000 Swiss franc fine.

There is no evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 Brexit referendum and Britain’s spies did not take their eyes off the ball on Russia, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Wednesday.

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.