PARIS- France is stepping up its COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign and tightening entry rules for arrivals from outside the European Union in response...
PARIS- France is stepping up its COVID-19 booster vaccination campaign and tightening entry rules for arrivals from outside the European Union in response...
BRASILIA- The new Omicron variant of the coronavirus is likely to soon spread to other countries in North and South America after being...
JOHANNESBURG- The Omicron variant has been detected in five out of nine South African provinces and accounted for 74% of the virus genomes...
WASHINGTON- U.S. officials ordered airlines to disclose passenger names and other information about those who have recently been in eight southern African countries...
GENEVA- The World Health Organization expects to have more information on the transmissibility of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus within days,...
NEW DELHI- Serum Institute of India (SII) has pledged to supply about 40 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot to the global...
Berlin: An old aircraft bomb exploded at a bridge nearMunich's busy main train station on Wednesday, injuring three people, police said on Twitter....
Manila: New coronavirus variants highlight the need for countries to do their own research and development on COVID-19 vaccines, said a senior Philippines...
LISBON, Portugal:Portugal tightened passenger entry requirements and mandated masks indoors to curb an upward trend in coronavirus infections as the country with one...
New Delhi: An Indian man has built a one-third sized replica of the historic Taj Mahal for his wife, but unlike the original,...
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) agreed on Wednesday to launch negotiations on an international pact to prevent and control future pandemics at...
London: Nigeria's Lagos State rejected findings by a judicial panel that security forces carried out a "massacre" of unarmed protesters last year, maintaining...
Tokyo: Japan has asked international airlines to stop taking new reservations for all flights arriving in Japan until the end of December as...
Oxford Township, Mich.:A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school, killing three students, including a 16-year-old boy who died in a...
Cairo: Saudi Arabia confirmed its first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant coming from a north African country, state news agency SPA reported...
Canberra: Fiji reopened its border to international travellers for the first time in nearly two years on Wednesday, as the Pacific Island country...
OTTAWA- Canada, seeking to halt the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, will require people arriving by air from all nations except the...
It is too early to know whether Omicron variant of COVID-19 will lead to severe disease, but preliminary information from South Africa indicates...
