OTTAWA - Canadian health authorities could approve Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine within the next week, allowing distribution to start in early 2021, medical...
OTTAWA - Canadian health authorities could approve Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine within the next week, allowing distribution to start in early 2021, medical...
Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and adviser, was questioned under oath this week as part of a civil lawsuit alleging misuse of nonprofit...
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has selected former Obama administration official Jeff Zients to be his White House coronavirus coordinator and former U.S....
Islamabad - Pakistan's former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who served under military leader Pervez Musharraf, has died, his family announced. The...
Washington - The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, which was recently demonstrated to have 94 percent efficacy, causes the human immune system to produce potent...
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday decried countries - without naming names - who rejected the facts about the...
LISBON - Portugal's government announced on Thursday a nationwide plan to vaccinate people against the coronavirus voluntarily and free of charge, and said...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI - A fourth round of talks between the Indian government and 40 farmers' unions over divisive farm laws failed to make...
SAO PAULO - São Paulo's Butantan Institute biomedical center on Thursday received 1 million doses of a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac...
Washington - Former US presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are volunteering to take a coronavirus vaccine on camera if...
For the first time, the top three positions in the office of the vice president will be held by women -- and all...
BEIRUT: Life in Lebanon has become so difficult for Syrian refugee Ahmad, he says he recently contemplated suicide. The 54-year-old father of three...
LONDON: England's National Health Service (NHS) is looking at ways to deploy Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine in care homes with the medical regulator, but...
Chennai, India: Indian film superstar Rajinikanth on Thursday became the latest in a long line of big-name actors to enter politics, vowing to...
WILMINGTON, Del.: When technical problems marred the ballyhooed launch of the Affordable Care Act's website, President Barack Obama turned to Jeff Zients, an...
Iran's total cases of novel coronavirus hit 1 million on Thursday with 13,922 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours, the health...
Rome: Global food commodity prices rose sharply in November to their highest level in nearly six years, the UN food agency said Thursday,...
MOSCOW: Moscow will open its new COVID-19 vaccination centres on Saturday and the first people to receive the shot will be teachers, doctors...