A senior EU official has threatened to block all AstraZeneca supplies from entering Britain until the drugmaker ups its deliveries to the bloc, as the EU ramps up its rhetoric over coronavirus vaccines again. Thierry Breton, the EU’s internal market commissioner, said ‘zero’ AstraZeneca jabs made on the continent would be shipped across the Channel until … Read more
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has warned that more vaccines will be blocked from export, saying that the move against Australia last week ‘was not a one-off’. ‘AstraZeneca delivered less than ten per cent of the amount ordered to the EU in the period from December to March,’ Ms von der Leyen said as she … Read more
Controversy has surrounded the fossil of a chicken-sized dinosaur with unique shoulder ‘needles’ — after claims it may have been exported from Brazil illegally. Dating back some 110 million years, the unusual specimen was recently named Ubirajara jubatus — or ‘Maned Lord of the Spear’ — after its distinguishing spines. Experts have proposed that the … Read more