SANTIAGO: Chileans have returned to the slopes of the Andes mountains for the start of the ski season or the first time in...
SANTIAGO: Chileans have returned to the slopes of the Andes mountains for the start of the ski season or the first time in...
PRAGUE: Slovakia will launch a lottery with weekly prizes of up to 2 million euros for vaccinated people and offer bonuses to those...
JOHANNESBURG: Driven by the delta variant, a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across the African continent where new cases, hospital admissions, and...
TAIPEI: Taiwan has chosen to get the Novavax Inc COVID-19 vaccine via the COVAX global sharing scheme, the company said on Friday, which...
JAKARTA: Indonesian doctor Cheras Sjarfi says the small public hospital where she works in south Jakarta was not ready for the influx of...
A decades-old Boeing Co 737-200 cargo airplane with two people on board made an emergency nighttime landing in the Pacific Ocean off the...
MILAN: The highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus is gaining ground in Italy, the National Health Institute (ISS) said on Friday, releasing...
LAUREL, Philippines: Thousands of people were being evacuated from villages around a rumbling volcano near the Philippine capital Friday, but officials said they...
SURFSIDE, Fla: The grim, painstaking search for victims in the rubble of a collapsed Miami-area condominium complex, briefly suspended over safety concerns, proceeded...
MEXICO CITY: A long-term drought that has hit two-thirds of Mexico looks set to worsen in coming weeks, with forecasts warning of high...
MOSCOW: Russia registered a record number of daily COVID-19-related deaths on Friday amid a surge in cases across the world's largest country that...
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela met on Friday with COVID-19 travel restrictions high on the agenda as cases...
Johnson & Johnson said late Thursday that its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine showed strong promise against the Delta variant and other emerging strains and...
JAKARTA: Indonesia will increase social assistance and healthcare spending in response to a spike in COVID-19 cases and to soften the economic blow...
SEOUL: South Korea's daily count of coronavirus cases has topped 800, the highest in nearly six months, due to new cluster infections and...
DUBLIN - Ireland will give 18- to 34-year-olds the option of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine one to two months earlier than scheduled in...
Singapore is slated to announce a further easing of Covid-19 restrictions in mid-July as part of a strategy for reopening the economy that...
JUNGFRAUJOCH, Switzerland - It's a quiet day at Jungfraujoch, the Swiss tourist attraction dubbed "Top of Europe", a mountain saddle connecting two 4,000-metre...