UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized Wednesday for attending a garden party during Britain’s first coronavirus lockdown but brushed aside demands that he resign for breaching the rules.
The President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, has died in Italy due to a dysfunction of his immune system, according to a tweet from his spokesman early Tuesday (local time).
Over the next 16 years, she was credited with raising Germany’s profile and influence, working to hold a fractious European Union together, managing a string of crises, and being a role model for women.