The Latvian parliament on Thursday allowed businesses to fire workers who refuse to either get a COVID-19 vaccine or transfer to remote work,...
The Latvian parliament on Thursday allowed businesses to fire workers who refuse to either get a COVID-19 vaccine or transfer to remote work,...
GENEVA- Europe registered a 55% rise in COVID-19 cases in the last four weeks, despite the availability of vaccines, which should serve as...
WASHINGTON- President Joe Biden will enforce a federal mandate that workers at U.S. companies with at least 100 employees be vaccinated against COVID-19...
Seoul: South Korea opened COVID-19 quarantine centres on Thursday to house potentially thousands of teenagers with COVID-19 ahead of the country's gruelling eight-hour...
BEIRUT: Lebanon's Information Minister George Kordahi said on Thursday that he will not resign and that his position had not changed, Beirut-based Al...
LAGOS, Nigeria: The number of bodies recovered from a collapsed high-rise apartment building in Nigeria’s most populous city has risen to 36, an...
ZAGREB: Croatia reported on Thursday 6,310 infections of COVID-19 which is the highest daily number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic,...
COPENHAGEN: European countries must work harder to prevent the coronavirus spreading further as deaths and new cases surge, the World Health Organization's Europe...
VIENNA: Austria's daily new coronavirus infections surged on Thursday towards the record set a year ago, making a lockdown for the unvaccinated ever...
BEIJING: China is on high alert at its ports as strict policies on travel in and out of the country are enforced to...
KYIV: The total number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine has exceeded 3 million with more than 70,000 deaths, the health ministry said on...
SYDNEY: Australian police said a 36-year-old man was likely to be charged on Thursday over the disappearance of a four-year-old girl from an...
BERLIN: Germany reported 33,949 new COVID-19 infections, the highest daily increase since the start of the pandemic last year, ahead of a two-day...
BEIJING: China's vegetable production is "basically normal" and it has enough wheat to meet demand for one and a half years, agriculture officials...
ANKARA, Turkey- Turkey’s health minister announced Wednesday that the country will start administering booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to people who...
MOSCOW- Five Russian regions said on Wednesday they would extend a one-week workplace shutdown that took effect nationwide on Oct. 30 in response...
MILAN- Italy's medicines agency AIFA on Wednesday recommended a booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine to those innoculated with the Johnson &...
KYIV- Several hundred people blocked traffic in the centre of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Wednesday in a protest against coronavirus restrictions and...