STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s left-leaning government on Thursday proposed a 40% increase for its defense budget from 2021-2025 with the defense minister saying the move...
STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s left-leaning government on Thursday proposed a 40% increase for its defense budget from 2021-2025 with the defense minister saying the move...
VIENNA: Austria on Thursday ordered the first local quarantine of its second wave of coronavirus infections, in a town near Salzburg, as cases...
Tokyo: Japan will allow baseball fans to pack into a near-full stadium to test coronavirus containment measures, the economy minister said Thursday, as...
MUMBAI: Floods brought by heavy rains and overflowing rivers across large swathes of western and southern India have killed at least 40 people...
NEW DELHI: Seven months after screens went dark, cinemas reopened Thursday in much of India with mostly old titles on the marquee -...
Paris: Clinical trials of an experimental vaccine against COVID-19 which is being developed by France's Sanofi and U.S. biotech firm Translate Bio are...
Frankfurt am Main: The Frankfurt book fair, the world's largest, is going ahead this week even after a spike in coronavirus infections turned...
LONDON: Britain’s health secretary has shifted London into the second-highest COVID-19 alert level amid a rise in cases. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told...
LONDON: Scientists from Britain's University of Oxford have developed a rapid COVID-19 test able to identify the coronavirus in less than five minutes,...
Hong Kong/SINGAPORE: Hong Kong and Singapore will set up a travel bubble, the two cities announced on Thursday, as they moved to re-establish...
Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday she will step down as leader of the centre-left Labour Party if opinion polls...
Oct 14 (Reuters) - A division of Chinese state-run Sinopharm Group Co Ltd that is developing two COVID-19 vaccines is offering them for...
MANILA: Sinovac Biotech may start late-stage trials of its coronavirus vaccine in the Philippines as early as next month, its food and drugs...
BANGKOK: Thailand's government banned protests and police arrested at least three protest leaders on Thursday in the face of escalating demonstrations targeting King...
U.S. President Donald Trump is no longer capable of spreading the novel coronavirus and can attend a town hall on Thursday without putting...
President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, tested positive for coronavirus while his parents recovered from Covid-19 but never showed symptoms of the disease,...
MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday his government has the money to procure coronavirus vaccines but he would need more...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday that COVID-19 vaccines may not be initially recommended for children, when...