WELLINGTON, New Zealand: New Zealand, which has completely stamped out the coronavirus, plans to cautiously reopen its borders to international travelers early next...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand: New Zealand, which has completely stamped out the coronavirus, plans to cautiously reopen its borders to international travelers early next...
Beirut: The Lebanese government will discuss a law on Thursday allowing the central bank to use its mandatory reserve to keep subsidising fuel...
HANOI: Vietnam's government on Thursday said it was facing a tense situation over rising coronavirus cases and a shortage of vaccines, as the...
TOKYO: Japan's top health adviser said on Thursday he would request stricter emergency measures for about two weeks to tackle a spike in...
Kabul: Taliban fighters in Afghanistan captured the strategic city of Ghazni on Thursday, the ninth provincial capital they have seized in a week...
ANYANG, South Korea: A South Korean hospital has upgraded a COVID-19 testing booth to become a mobile contactless clinic that can test people...
NAIROBI: Kenya's oxygen production firm Hewatele is doubling production this year to keep up with surging demand from hospitals that are treating critically...
London: As Britain enjoyed a summertime lull in COVID-19 cases, the nation’s attention turned to the end of pandemic-related restrictions and holidays in...
SEOUL: South Korea is considering mandating its largest hospitals provide at least 1.5% of their intensive care beds for severe COVID-19 patients as...
HELSINKI: Finland on Thursday registered a record number of new coronavirus infections in the space of a day, driven by the highly contagious...
BEIJING/SINGAPORE: Congestion off China's top two container ports Shanghai and Ningbo is worsening following the shutdown of a container terminal in Ningbo where...
Bengaluru: An Indian rocket carrying a powerful earth observation satellite failed to fire fully on Thursday, the state-run space agency said, in a...
Copenhagen, Denmark: Danish lawmakers have agreed to evacuate 45 Afghan citizens who worked for Denmark's government in Afghanistan and to offer them residency...
Moscow: A helicopter carrying 16 people, most of them tourists, crashed in a lake on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East on...
LONDON - No new cases of a rare and severe blood clots following vaccination with AstraZeneca's COVID shot have been reported in Britain...
An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck some 63 km east of Pondaguitan in the Philippines, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and the U.S....
SAN FRANCISCO - California will become the first state in the nation to require all teachers and school staff to get vaccinated or...
ISTANBUL - Turkey will start face-to-face education as scheduled, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday, and unvaccinated adults will have to be...