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Images of big queues with minimal social distancing have been circulating on social media.

People seen queuing at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 on Friday. Images showed little sign of social distancing. Photograph: Pia Josephson/Reuters Scenes of big crowds at Heathrow airport are “incredibly worrying”, the shadow home secretary has said, as travellers complained of long queues at passport control for a second consecutive day. Photographs posted online by travellers, including the former British ambassador Peter Westmacott, appeared to show queues of people at border control with no obvious social distancing. Labour’s Nick Thomas...

St Helena There will also be an exemption until 4am on January 21 for people who began their journey in: Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Which countries are subject to travel bans? Travel to and from all of South America, Portugal and Cape Verde was banned from 4am last Friday. British and Irish nationals as well as people with residency rights will be exempt, but will have to self-isolate for ten days with their household on returning from any countries on the banned list. A similar ban was put into place for South Africa on December 23 last year, after another new variant was identified by sci...

Will Joe Biden be an activist president on the world stage? Despite cascading crises at home that will need his urgent attention, some foreign policy experts predict the new US President Joe Biden will take an energetic role in foreign policy. New York Times January 21, 2021 / 07:26 AM IST US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, walk near the White House during a Presidential Escort to the White House, on January 20, 2021 in Washington DC. (Image: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) A decade ago, Joe Biden strode into a reception room in Athen...

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