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Starting next week, the UK will ease its current lockdown measures,… as infections are declining amid rapid vaccine rollouts. Speaking at a news briefing on Monday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that the country s economy will reopen starting April 12th. (English / Reuters 1016) And the net result of your efforts - and of course, of the vaccine rollout - is that I can today confirm that from Monday, 12th April, we will move to step two of our roadmap: reopening shops, gyms, zoos, holiday camp sites, personal care services like hairdressers and, of course, beer gardens and outdoor hospitality of all kinds. ....
fears. A website run by the North s Sports Ministry said its national Olympic Committee had decided not to participate in the Games to protect its athletes from the Covid-19 pandemic. This will be the first time North Korea has missed a Summer Olympics since it boycotted Seoul in 1988. It s a blow to South Korea s hopes of using the Games to engage with the North as the sporting event this summer had been considered one of the last-remaining chances to kickstart the stalled cross border talks before the end of President Moon Jae-in s term next year. When South Korea hosted the Winter Games in PyeongChang in 2018, the North Korean leader sent his sister, Kim Yo-jong, to head his delegation and athletes from the two Koreas entered a joint team which led to the initiation of diplomacy with South Korea and the U.S., including a series of historic summits. ....
Returning from a trip to the United States after the three-way meeting between his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, Seoul s national security adviser Suh Hoon on Monday told reporters that Seoul and Washington have reached an agreement in principle to hold a summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington. While Suh stopped short of saying when the summit would take place, he said the two sides agreed to hold the summit as early as possible. The latest remark from the national security adviser also comes as an informed source here in South Korea said last week, that the two leaders could hold their first face-to-face summit talks as early as this month. ....