BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers agreed on Tuesday to extend a lockdown for most shops and schools until Feb....
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers agreed on Tuesday to extend a lockdown for most shops and schools until Feb....
WASHINGTON - A dozen members of the U.S. National Guard have been removed from duty helping secure the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden...
OTTAWA/TORONTO - Pfizer Inc told Canada on Tuesday it will receive no coronavirus vaccines next week, officials said, an unexpected development that promises...
NEW DELHI - India's technology ministry has asked WhatsApp to withdraw changes to its privacy policy the messaging platform announced earlier this month,...
BRASILIA - Brazilian pharmaceutical company União Quimica plans to press ahead with production of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine with a view to exporting...
The U.S. has recorded 400,000 Covid-19 deaths, a sobering milestone that comes as the nation prepares to inaugurate a new president who has...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, of provoking the Jan. 6 riot...
GENEVA/LONDON - The COVID-19 pandemic could be the catalyst for much-needed reform of the World Health Organization just as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster...
ROME - A 500-year-old painting, stolen from a Naples' church museum, has been discovered in an apartment on the outskirts of the southern...
WASHINGTON - Hours before they are set to take the helm of a country in crisis, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect...
ZURICH/PARIS - Some European countries are drawing fewer than the approved six doses from Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine vials, meaning shots are...
MADRID - Spain said on Tuesday it will extend a support scheme for hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed due to COVID-19 until...
AMSTERDAM - The Dutch government will announce further measures to fight the coronavirus this week amid fears that the "British variant" and other...
LISBON - Portugal is living "one of the saddest moments", the prime minister said on Tuesday, as doctors warned of a healthcare system...
New Delhi: India’s homegrown coronavirus vaccine developer Bharat Biotech on Tuesday warned people with weak immunity and other medical conditions including allergies, fever...
BAGHDAD: Iraq's cabinet decided on Tuesday to postpone the general election to Oct. 10 from June, the state news agency INA said. The...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Tuesday said it would extend lockdown restrictions across most of the country as it grappled with a rise in...
NEW DELHI: India, one of the world's biggest drugmakers, will start exports of COVID-19 vaccines as early as Wednesday, government sources said, paving...
