BEIJING: China's commercial hub Shanghai and neighbouring coastal regions cancelled all flights, slowed or suspended subway trains and shuttered businesses as typhoon In-fa...
BEIJING: China's commercial hub Shanghai and neighbouring coastal regions cancelled all flights, slowed or suspended subway trains and shuttered businesses as typhoon In-fa...
JAKARTA: Indonesia extended its COVID-19 restrictions by a week to Aug. 2 to try to curb infections, President Joko Widodo announced on Sunday,...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff fears the number of new coronavirus cases will soar in the next few weeks and...
NEW DELHI: Days of landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in western India’s Maharashtra state killed at least 113 people and...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's total coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic surpasssed 1 million on Sunday after the country's health ministry reported...
PARIS: French anti-riot police fired teargas on Saturday as clashes broke out during protests in central Paris against COVID-19 curbs and vaccination, local...
Kabul: Afghanistan's government has imposed a night-time curfew across almost all of the country's 34 provinces to stem surging violence unleashed by a...
ZHENGZHOU, China: A man in central China was rescued after spending three days trapped in a flooded underground garage following torrential rains, while...
HANOI, Vietnam: Vietnam announced a 15-day lockdown in the capital Hanoi starting Saturday as a coronavirus surge spread from the southern Mekong Delta...
Moscow: Russia on Saturday reported nearly 24,000 new COVID-19 cases and a repeat all-time high in the number of daily deaths, at 799,...
AstraZeneca Plc is planning to import Covid-19 vaccines to Southeast Asia as its only manufacturing facility in the region struggles to ramp up...
JAKARTA: The Indonesian island of Bali is running out of oxygen for its COVID-19 patients as infections surge, the chief of its health...
Strike teams making headway against a huge wildfire in Oregon faced a resurgence of dry, windy weather on Friday while an outbreak of...
MELBOURNE: Sydney will get 50,000 more doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week to battle its worsening COVID outbreak, Canberra said on Saturday,...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Rescue teams in India struggled through thick sludge and debris on Saturday to reach dozens of submerged homes as the death...
MANILA: Philippine authorities moved thousands of residents of the capital, Manila, out of their low-lying communities on Saturday as heavy monsoon rain, compounded...
ZAGREB, Croatia - Croatia and Montenegro have tightened rules against the new coronavirus along the Adriatic Sea coast amid a rise in infections...
PARIS - A return to normal life following the COVID-19 virus outbreak may not occur until 2022 or even 2023, said professor Jean-Francois...