NEW YORK - Only a handful of invited guests, including health care workers and others from the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic,...
NEW YORK - Only a handful of invited guests, including health care workers and others from the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic,...
New Delhi - New Delhi and other major cities across India on Thursday ordered curfews for New Year's Eve as they stepped up...
BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's Fiocruz biomedical center will request authorization for emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC and...
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will purchase 1.2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from China's Sinopharm, a minister said on Thursday, the first official confirmation of...
Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips stepped down from the position amid public outrage that he was vacationing in the Caribbean over the holidays,...
Moscow - President Vladimir Putin in his New Year's speech on Thursday urged Russians to unite in the face of the country's battle...
Chinese President Xi Jinping touted his government’s success in controlling Covid-19 in a New Year’s Eve address in which he sought to move...
London - England on Thursday was preparing to reopen its Nightingale field hospitals as a surge in cases of the new strain of...
Muscat: Oman's Sultan HM Haitham bin Tariq Al-Said received a written message Thursday from HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday was due to fly back to Washington a day earlier than planned,...
SEOUL - Crowds of partiers filled the main square in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Thursday night to watch a concert and...
Sydney: The world began ushering in the New Year Thursday, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell...
HELSINKI: Rescue workers in Norway on Thursday continued searching for 10 people, including children, who are missing a day after a massive landslide...
CONAKRY, Guinea: Guinea began vaccinating against COVID-19 with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine on an experimental basis, starting with government officials, authorities said...
SINGAPORE: Singapore reported five locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Thursday, its highest number in nearly three months, and was seeking to verify two...
MANILA: A province of islands in the southern Philippines will seal itself off for an initial two weeks from Monday to keep out...
Only about 2.6 million Americans had received a COVID-19 vaccine going into the last day of December, putting the United States far short...
Beirut: The Syrian conflict claimed at least 6,800 people in 2020, the lowest annual death toll since it began nearly a decade ago,...
