ZURICH - Switzerland has withheld approval for AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, drugs regulator Swissmedic said on Wednesday, demanding more efficacy and quality data before...
ZURICH - Switzerland has withheld approval for AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, drugs regulator Swissmedic said on Wednesday, demanding more efficacy and quality data before...
MOSCOW: Russian authorities on Wednesday shrugged off the massive rallies against the jailing of top Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny and rejected Western criticism...
BEIRUT: Lebanon is set to receive 500,000 tonnes of fuel oil from Iraq in 2021 for power generation, the Lebanese caretaker energy minister...
ROME: Italy’s president asked former European bank chief Mario Draghi to form a non-political government to steer Italy through the coronavirus pandemic after...
BERLIN: The German military on Wednesday sent more than 20 doctors and nurses together with ventilators and hospital beds to coronavirus-stricken Portugal, where...
JAKARTA, Indonesia: Medical workers across Myanmar began a civil disobedience protest against Monday's coup, wearing red ribbons and declaring they won't work for...
LONDON: Britain’s health chief said Wednesday that a new study suggesting that a single dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine provides a high...
WASHINGTON: There's a crib in President Joe Biden's White House. Upstairs in the family residence, the bed is set for the president's youngest...
MOSCOW: Nicaragua has granted regulatory approval to Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, TASS news agency cited the Russian sovereign wealth fund as...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Denmark's government said Wednesday it is joining forces with businesses to develop a digital passport that would show whether people have...
PRAGUE: Nearly one in 10 people in the Czech Republic have been infected by the coronavirus, data showed on Wednesday, as the total...
MARSTON MORETAINE, England: With flowers and lights, Britain paid tribute on Wednesday to Captain Tom Moore, 100, who touched the hearts of millions...
Tokyo: Japan's COVID-19 tracking application for some smartphone users has had a malfunction since September and has failed to pass on some notifications...
SYDNEY: Strong winds threatening to fan a bushfire prompted Australia on Wednesday to urge thousands of people to leave their homes in the...
BEIJING: China plans to provide 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to global vaccine sharing scheme COVAX, as three Chinese companies have applied...
SINGAPORE: Singapore has become the first country in Asia to grant approval for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine and the city-state said it expects the...
London: The Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca give good immune responses in older people, even if there is a lack...
GlaxoSmithKline Plc and CureVac NV joined forces to create next-generation Covid-19 messenger RNA vaccines that could help protect against multiple variants of the...