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EU buys 300million more doses of Pfizer vaccine amid mounting anger at slow roll-out across bloc

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The EU today announced it had bought another 300million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and approved a plan to scrape an extra dose out of each vial as the bloc tries to catch up to the faster rollouts in the US and Britain.  With Israel still leading the global race – having given jabs to … Read more

EU lags behind: Covid vaccine makers says bloc has been too slow to secure stocks

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Coronavirus vaccine makers have blasted the EU for being too slow to secure stocks of the jab as pressure mounts on France and Germany to speed up immunisation. The founder of BioNTech Uğur Şahin warned a ‘gap’ had emerged after EU leaders bet on other vaccines’ approval rather than ordering from those already available. He told Der … Read more

Soviet-era postcards in book published by Fuel show the Eastern Bloc in all its brutal glory

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From the sinister to the surreal: Fascinating Soviet-era postcards show the Eastern Bloc in all its brutal glory The postcards, which date from the 1960s to the 1980s, feature in a book called Brutal Bloc Postcards  It features images depicting vast housing blocks, huge industrial factories and monuments to comradeship The book’s publisher, Fuel, says: ‘These … Read more