SEOUL - South Korea's capital, Seoul, on Friday announced unprecedented restrictions shuttering most establishments and shops at 9 p.m. and cutting back public...
SEOUL - South Korea's capital, Seoul, on Friday announced unprecedented restrictions shuttering most establishments and shops at 9 p.m. and cutting back public...
Copenhagen - The World Health Organization said it was considering introducing electronic vaccination certificates, as hopes for an end to the pandemic were...
LOS ANGELES - Firefighters battled to tame a wildfire on hillsides southeast of Los Angeles late on Thursday, some 24 hours after it...
ROME - Italy approved new restrictions on Thursday to avoid a surge in novel coronavirus infections over Christmas and the New Year, banning...
LONDON - Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious diseases expert, apologised on Thursday after casting doubt over the rigor of the British regulators...
OTTAWA - Canadian health authorities could approve Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine within the next week, allowing distribution to start in early 2021, medical...
Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and adviser, was questioned under oath this week as part of a civil lawsuit alleging misuse of nonprofit...
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has selected former Obama administration official Jeff Zients to be his White House coronavirus coordinator and former U.S....
Islamabad - Pakistan's former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who served under military leader Pervez Musharraf, has died, his family announced. The...
Washington - The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, which was recently demonstrated to have 94 percent efficacy, causes the human immune system to produce potent...
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday decried countries - without naming names - who rejected the facts about the...
LISBON - Portugal's government announced on Thursday a nationwide plan to vaccinate people against the coronavirus voluntarily and free of charge, and said...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI - A fourth round of talks between the Indian government and 40 farmers' unions over divisive farm laws failed to make...
SAO PAULO - São Paulo's Butantan Institute biomedical center on Thursday received 1 million doses of a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac...
Washington - Former US presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are volunteering to take a coronavirus vaccine on camera if...
For the first time, the top three positions in the office of the vice president will be held by women -- and all...
BEIRUT: Life in Lebanon has become so difficult for Syrian refugee Ahmad, he says he recently contemplated suicide. The 54-year-old father of three...
LONDON: England's National Health Service (NHS) is looking at ways to deploy Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine in care homes with the medical regulator, but...
