LONDON - Fully-vaccinated people have an around 50 to 60% reduced risk of infection from the Delta coronavirus variant, including those who are...
LONDON - Fully-vaccinated people have an around 50 to 60% reduced risk of infection from the Delta coronavirus variant, including those who are...
JOHANNESBURG: The cars lined up by the strikingly modern mosque and were guided to parking bays where the drivers soon got jabs. The...
SHANGHAI - Chinese state media on Wednesday reported that many minors are able to purchase e-cigarettes in the country despite a ban on...
DENVER: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Wednesday revised upward its outlook for the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, estimating there was...
LAGOS - Officials in Nigeria - a hub for illegal wildlife trafficking - have seized a record amount of pangolin scales and claws...
LONDON: Britain will offer all 16- and 17-year-olds their first dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, its vaccine advisers said on Wednesday, a move...
MILAS: Firefighters were battling 16 wildfires across Turkey on Wednesday, including one near a coal-fired power station, with high temperatures, low humidity and...
NEW YORK: Target Corp. is joining a growing list of retailers and restaurant chains offering educational assistance at select online institutions for its...
MOSCOW: Summer wildfires have already produced a record amount of carbon emissions in Russia's Siberian region of Yakutia, with still more weeks of...
BRUSSELS: The European Commission has approved a supply contract with U.S. firm Novavax to buy up to 200 million doses of its potential...
The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September, its head Tedros...
BRUSSELS: The Mediterranean has become a wildfire hotspot, with Turkey hit by its most intense blazes on record and a heatwave producing a...
BEIJING: China reported on Wednesday the most new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since January as some cities stepped up restrictions, cut flights and...
SEOUL: South Korea posted a sharp increase in its coronavirus cases on Wednesday as it struggled to tame its fourth wave of infections...
HANOI: Vietnam will slash the duration of mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors from two weeks to just seven days, its health ministry said...
TOKYO: Japan warned on Wednesday that coronavirus infections were surging at an unprecedented pace as new cases hit a record high in Tokyo,...
Dubai: An Iranian Revolutionary Court has sentenced two dual nationals, German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi and British-Iranian Mehran Raouf, to more than 10 years in...
SYDNEY: Australia's New South Wales reported one of the country's youngest deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, as daily infections lingered near a 16-month...
