NAIROBI, Kenya: Africa’s top public health official says 60% of the continent’s population needs to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the next...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Africa’s top public health official says 60% of the continent’s population needs to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the next...
WASHINGTON: Advocates and lawyers anticipate a flurry of clemency action from President Donald Trump in the coming weeks that could test the limits...
PARIS: Former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who championed European integration and helped modernise French society in the 1970s, has died at the age...
SEOUL: Nearly half a million South Korean students nervously began a hyper-competitive university entrance exam on Thursday, with COVID-19 students taking the exam...
Australia’s New South Wales state has recorded its first new case of the coronavirus in 25 days after a woman working at a...
LONDON - Britain's Prince Harry has suggested that the coronavirus pandemic is a rebuke from nature as he called for more action to...
Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine could be approved for emergency use within 24 to 72 hours after the U.S. health regulator's advisory committee meeting,...
BERLIN - Germany will extend restrictive measures designed to stem a tide of new COVID-19 infections until Jan. 10, Chancellor Angela Merkel said...
BRASILIA - COVID-19 deaths in the Americas have increased nearly 30% in November compared with the end of October, while North America is...
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court said on Wednesday it will hear oral arguments on Dec. 14 on the government's appeal of an...
ATHENS - Pfizer Inc's chief executive, Albert Bourla, said on Wednesday he was confident that by the end of 2021 there would be...
MADRID - The Spanish government agreed with regional authorities on Wednesday that a maximum of 10 people per household will be allowed to...
New York Facial recognition technology created after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shows that some software developers have made demonstrable progress at...
CVS Health Corp said on Wednesday it would administer Eli Lilly & Co's experimental antibody treatment to COVID-19 patients in their homes and...
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin ordered a large-scale voluntary vaccination programme against COVID-19 to begin next week across Russia, saying teachers and doctors...
London - Boris Johnson is ready to get a Covid-19 vaccination jab, his aide said Wednesday, but the British prime minister would give...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday said it was recommending shorter self-quarantine periods after potential exposure to the...
COLOMBO - Tropical cyclone Burevi slammed into Sri Lanka's eastern coast on Wednesday night and was expected to damage coastal buildings and power...
