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FILE - In this Satuday, Oct. 26, 2019 file photo, Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster, left, has her picture taken with party members Jeffrey Donaldson, MP, and Emma Littele-Pengelly, MP, at the party's annual conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party is looking for a new leader following the announcement Wednesday, April 28, 2021 by First Minister Arlene Foster that she will be standing down after nearly five and a half years in post. Following weeks of pressure related to her handling of Brexit and her perceived softening on social issues such as abortion and LGBT rights, Foster said she would step down as leader of the party on May 28 and as first minister at the end of June. Potential candidates include Jeffrey Donaldson, Edwin Poots, Gavin Robinson, Sammy Wilson and Ian Paisley Jr. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Potential contenders for new Northern Ireland first minister

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FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2021 file photo, a doctor prepares a dose of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at the Ana Francisca Perez de Leon II public hospital, in Caracas, Venezuela. Brazil's health regulator rejected on Monday, April 19, 2021, a request from several states to import almost 30 million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, citing safety concerns, prompting criticism from the Russian government. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

EU report takes aim at Russia over vaccine fake news

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate in the plenary at the European Parliament in Brussels, Monday, April 26, 2021. European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were reporting back to the parliament on Monday regarding their meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month aimed at improving strained EU-Turkey relations. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool)

Turkey says it’s glad a woman leads EU’s executive branch

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Head of the Task Force for Relations with the UK Michel Barnier, center, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, attend a debate on the EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement during the second day of a plenary session at the European Parliament in Brussels, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)

EU lawmakers approve post-Brexit trade treaty

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and Head of the Task Force for Relations with the UK Michel Barnier, second left, arrive for a debate on the EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement during the second day of a plenary session at the European Parliament in Brussels, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)

European Parliament set to greenlight post-Brexit trade deal

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Polish right-wing government wins left’s support on EU funds

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate in the plenary at the European Parliament in Brussels, Monday, April 26, 2021. European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were reporting back to the parliament on Monday regarding their meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month aimed at improving strained EU-Turkey relations. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool)

EU chief felt ‘hurt,’ ‘alone’ at meeting with Turkish leader

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, July 1, 2020, file photo, Marcel Schmetz raises the U.S. flag next to a WWII American Sherman tank at his Remember Museum 39-45 in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium. Tourists from the United States who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 could be able to travel across the European Union this summer, officials from the 27-nation bloc said on Monday, April 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

EU finalizing plans to allow U.S. tourists back this summer

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In this Monday, March 22, 2021, file photo medical staff prepares an AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine during preparations at the vaccine center in Ebersberg near Munich, Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

EU launches legal action against vaccine-maker AstraZeneca

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

A station passageway is crowded with commuters wearing face masks during a rush hour at Shinagawa Station Monday, April 26, 2021, in Tokyo. Japan declared a third state of emergency for Tokyo and three western prefectures from Sunday amid skepticism it will be enough to curb a rapid coronavirus resurgence just three months ahead of the Olympics. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

The Latest: Ontario getting military help for pandemic surge

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Albania's Socialist Party Leader Edi Rama reacts as he delivers his speech during a political rally in Albania's capital Tirana on Thursday, April 22, 2021. Albania holds parliamentary elections on upcoming Sunday amid the virus pandemic and a bitter political rivalry between the country's two largest political parties but that will serve as a key milestone in the country's next step toward European Union membership. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Albania heads to polls after a bitter political fight

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 14, 2021 file photo, a box with vials of AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 were taken out of a fridge for a few seconds during a vaccination campaign in Amsterdam, Netherlands, . The European Medicines Agency is expected to provide updated guidance Friday April 23, 2021, on how countries across Europe should use the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

EU agency says people should get 2nd dose of AstraZeneca too

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Patients undergo treatment for COVID-19 inside a tent installed outside the Social Security Hospital in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, April 22, 2021. The government decreed new lockdown rules on April 21 for the majority of Ecuador's provinces, limiting movement on weeknights and a strict, all-day curfew on weekends to curb the spread of the new coronavirus which is overwhelming hospitals. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

The Latest: Health panel urges restarting J&J vaccinations

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FILE - In this March 27, 2021 file photo a laboratory worker simulates the workflow in a cleanroom of the BioNTech Corona vaccine production in Marburg, Germany, during a media day. Countries in the European Union have ramped up the vaccination after sluggish start. The uptick comes as countries across Europe also grapple with a rise in infections that has pushed the EU’s overall number of confirmed cases close to 30 million. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)

Europe lines up more shots, hoping to beat back virus surge

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A woman wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus visits the Namba Yasaka Shrine in Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

The Latest: Hawaii eases virus rules for inter-island travel

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FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 25, 2020 file photo, trucks line up at check-in to the ferry at The Port of Dover, Kent, England. Britain has lifted travel restrictions on truckers that were imposed to avoid border chaos after the country’s economic split from the European Union at the end of last year. The government said Tuesday, April 20, 2021 that it was scrapping the “access permit” that truck drivers had to show to enter the southeast England county of Kent, home to the port of Dover and the U.K. end of the Channel Tunnel. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)

UK lifts post-Brexit permits for truckers as trade recovers

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

In this April 13, 2021, file photo, a box of Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccines are shown by pharmacist Zsolt Szenasi at a warehouse of Hungaropharma, a Hungarian pharmaceutical wholesale company, in Budapest, Hungary. Experts at the European Medicines Agency are preparing to present the conclusions of their investigation later on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, into possible links between the Johnson &amp; Johnson coronavirus vaccine and very rare cases of unusual clotting disorders detected in the U.S. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP, File)

EU regulator finds link between J&J shot and blood clots, says warning should be added to label

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

A woman waves a European Union flag in front of the Russian Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, April 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

EU estimates 150,000 Russian troops near Ukraine’s borders

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

A health worker administers a dose of Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine against the new coronavirus to a patient at Szent Gyorgy Training Hospital in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, Monday, April 19, 2021. (Tamas Vasvari/MTI via AP)

EU to purchase 100 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses

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EU’s Borrell voices solidarity with US in SolarWinds hack

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