TOKYO - Japan will release more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, the...
TOKYO - Japan will release more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, the...
Geneva: The United Nations' health agency on Tuesday urged countries to suspend the sale of live animals captured from the wild in food...
NEW DELHI/MOSCOW: India has approved the use of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Monday, confirming...
SAN FRANCISCO: Domino's Pizza Inc and Nuro Inc, a Silicon Valley startup, said on Monday they will launch a robotic pizza delivery service...
ATHENS: Greece will get a first tranche of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine against COVID-19 on Wednesday and will start inoculating people...
Hong Kong plans to ease social-distancing rules for those vaccinated against the coronavirus to incentivize more people to get inoculated so the city...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte reappeared in public on Monday after an absence of nearly two weeks which had fuelled concerns about his...
WINDSOR, England: Prince William, second in line to the British throne, hailed his "grandpa" Prince Philip for his dutiful service to the crown,...
GENEVA: Confusion and complacency in addressing COVID-19 means the pandemic is a long way from over, but it can be brought under control...
PRAGUE: Czech schools, libraries, zoos and some stores reopened on Monday after months of coronavirus closures in one of the world's worst-hit countries....
ZURICH: Regeneron is pursuing U.S. approval for its COVID-19 monoclonal antibody cocktail as a preventative treatment after it helped cut the risk of...
Washington: One of President Joe Biden's two dogs, Major, is headed to training outside the White House after two biting incidents at his...
Paris: Two people were shot in front of a hospital in Paris on Monday, a police source told Reuters. The source said that...
MADRID: Spain will initially prioritise people aged between 70 and 79 for vaccination with coronavirus shots produced by Johnson & Johnson's Janssen unit,...
ANKARA - Turkey's daily coronavirus infection numbers have soared above 50,000 and President Tayyip Erdogan is likely to order a tightening of restrictions...
JAKARTA - The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet has been downloaded successfully and includes the last minutes of...
SYDNEY - A tropical cyclone on Australia's west coast destroyed several homes and cut electricity to tens of thousands of people overnight before...
SEOUL - South Korea said on Monday it plans to begin local production of Novavax Inc's COVID-19 vaccine as early as June, while...
