PRAGUE- Czech President Milos Zeman was taken back to hospital on Thursday after testing positive for the coronavirus, his office said, just hours...
PRAGUE- Czech President Milos Zeman was taken back to hospital on Thursday after testing positive for the coronavirus, his office said, just hours...
LISBON- Portugal, which has one of the world's highest rates of vaccination against COVID-19, announced it would reimpose some restrictions to stop a...
GENEVA- Switzerland is open to compromise in talks on the intellectual property (IP) rights of COVID-19 vaccines and drugs at the World Trade...
PRAGUE- The Czech government on Thursday orderedcafes to close at 10 p.m. and banned Christmas markets in an attempt to stem one of...
BRUSSELS: The European Union warned member countries today that they risk undermining the 27-nation bloc’s COVID-19 travel and access certificate system with new...
MOSCOW: At least 11 miners died in a coal mining accident in Russia's Siberia today and an operation to rescue dozens more people...
The European Union drug regulator on Thursday approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of five and 11,...
BERLIN: Germany crossed the sombre threshold of 100,000 COVID-19-related deaths on Thursday with a surge in new infections posing a challenge for the...
Kyiv: Ukraine's foreign minister warned Russia on Thursday that an attack on his country would incur "political, economic and human losses" and would...
PARIS: France is set to announce that COVID-19 booster shots will be made available to all adults, along with stricter rules on wearing...
The European Union will recommend a 9-month time limit for the validity of Covid-19 vaccinations for travel into the bloc and also propose...
Amsterdam: Some Dutch hospitals have halted chemotherapy treatments and organ transplants to free up intensive care beds for a surging number of COVID-19...
Sweden’s first female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, got the worst possible start to her tenure when she was forced to resign only hours...
MADRID- Authorities on the Spanish island of La Palma on Wednesday lifted lockdown on three coastal towns as toxic fumes from the lava...
LONDON- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday he was disappointed that Valneva's COVID-19 vaccine had not gained approval in Britain, two...
LISBON- Portugal, one of the world's most vaccinated nations, will give COVID-19 booster shots to a quarter of its population by the end...
MOSCOW- Russia is expecting a specialist team from the World Health Organization (WHO) to visit in December to work on a review of...
GENEVA- Europe is once again the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic amid a "false sense of security" over the protection offered by vaccines,...
