THE HAGUE: The Dutch government is expected to announce on Tuesday it will allow restaurants and theatres to re-open despite record numbers of...
THE HAGUE: The Dutch government is expected to announce on Tuesday it will allow restaurants and theatres to re-open despite record numbers of...
ATHENS: Rescue crews, including the army, worked through the night to evacuate thousands of people stranded in their cars on an Athens motorway...
Seoul: South Korea's daily count of new coronavirus cases topped 8,000 for the first time on Tuesday, as the highly contagious Omicron variant...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam defended herself on Tuesday against criticism for not wearing a face mask at news conferences, saying...
Tokyo: Japan is set to more than double the number of regions under enhanced coronavirus curbs on Tuesday, even as it sought to...
Seoul: North Korea fired what appeared to be two cruise missiles into the sea off its east coast on Tuesday, South Korea's Joint...
WASHINGTON- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and State Department on Monday advised against travel to 15 countries and territories,...
LONDON- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a birthday party during the first COVID-19 lockdown in June 2020 when social gatherings indoors were...
NEW YORK- Even as COVID-19 cases drop and hospitalizations show signs of plateauing in hard-hit pockets of the United States, the still-rising death...
OSLO- Norway will end its system of mandatory COVID-19 quarantines for non-vaccinated travellers and close contacts of infected persons, replacing it instead with...
NEW YORK- An influential consumer advocacy group is pressing Pfizer Inc to supply more of its new COVID-19 pill Paxlovid to developing countries...
LONDON- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday his government will remove coronavirus testing requirements for vaccinated people arriving in England, news hailed...
ISTANBUL- Turkish authorities temporarily halted all flights at Istanbul Airport on Monday due to heavy snowfall in the city, which was blanketed in...
BERLIN- Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Germany's 16 state governors were charting the country's way forward Monday in the coronavirus pandemic, and are expected...
BEIRUT: Leading Lebanese Sunni Muslim politician Saad al-Hariri said on Monday he would not run in a forthcoming parliamentary election and was suspending...
LISBON: French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin, who set off in a rowboat from Portugal on Jan. 1 to cross the Atlantic solo, has vanished...
Athens, Greece: A severe weather front has hit Greece, with below-freezing temperatures and snowfall in many parts of the country, including the capital...
The European Union's drug regulator is set to decide whether to approve Pfizer's COVID-19 pill at the end of this month, before doing...
