MOSCOW: Angola on Wednesday approved the emergency use of Russia's one-shot Sputnik-Light COVID-19 vaccine, the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund...
MOSCOW: Angola on Wednesday approved the emergency use of Russia's one-shot Sputnik-Light COVID-19 vaccine, the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund...
DAMASCUS, Syria: Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country is ready for closer ties with Saudi Arabia, adding that he hoped recent...
WARSAW: Poland will bring forward the reopening of cinemas and start vaccinating 16- and 17-year-olds, the prime minister said on Wednesday, as COVID-19...
More clinical and real-world data is needed on how well and for how long COVID-19 vaccines are protective before any decisions should be...
ATHENS: Greek Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis said on Wednesday he was hopeful Britain would include Greece on its "green list" of quarantine-free holiday...
SYDNEY: Authorities in Australia's second most populous state warned on Wednesday the next few days would be critical to preventing a coronavirus outbreak...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's ministry of health on Wednesday cautioned that the country has yet to see the worst of a current surge in...
ZURICH: Switzerland aims to further ease its restrictions on public life on May 31, the government said on Wednesday, by allowing indoor restaurant...
MANILA: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 struck south of the Philippine capital early on Wednesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and...
STOCKHOLM - Sweden will delay plans to ease COVID-19 restrictions on some public gatherings, such as football matches, until June 1, Prime Minister...
LONDON - Britain will hold a public inquiry into the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic next year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said...
BRASILIA, May 11 (Reuters) - Brazil's Health Ministry announced it had signed a deal for Pfizer to deliver an additional 100 million doses...
CALGARY, Alberta - The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Ontario said they would stop offering first doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, with Ontario...
Seychelles, which is suffering a Covid-19 surge despite vaccinating a greater proportion of its people than any other nation, is in talks to...
GAZA/JERUSALEM: Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes in Gaza on Wednesday and Palestinian groups fired multiple rocket barrages in the region's most...
NEW DELHI - India's coronavirus deaths crossed a quarter million on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the...
OSLO - Norway will not resume its use of the COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca due to a risk of rare but harmful...
JAKARTA - China's Sinovac Biotech COVID-19 vaccine was 98% effective at preventing death and 96% effective at preventing hospitalisation among a group of...