OSLO: Norway's government is preparing legislation that would allow it to introduce curfews after new COVID-19 cases hit record levels, Justice Minister Monica...
OSLO: Norway's government is preparing legislation that would allow it to introduce curfews after new COVID-19 cases hit record levels, Justice Minister Monica...
NEW DELHI: India's tobacco industry will object to a proposal to ban smoking zones in hotels and prohibit advertising at cigarette kiosks as...
ZURICH: Switzerland plans to extend its lockdown restrictions by five weeks to the end of February, including closing all restaurants, cultural and recreational...
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned parliament on Wednesday that ending England's latest lockdown would require a "gradual unwrapping" over time, pledging...
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was denied bail on Wednesday by a British judge who said there was a risk he might flee...
Amsterdam: Moderna Inc's coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday became the second to receive approval from Europe's medicines regulator as authorities accelerate the roll-out of...
TOKYO: Japan's COVID-19 cases reached a new daily record on Wednesday, as the government faced mounting pressure from health experts to impose a...
San Diego: The University of California's San Diego campus has launched the winter academic term with a unique twist to its coronavirus safety...
Seoul: South Korea's police chief apologised on Wednesday amid an outpouring of grief and anger over the death of an adopted child in...
Manila: The Philippines is negotiating with seven vaccine manufacturers to procure at least 148 million Covid-19 shots as it seeks to inoculate close...
Bengaluru: Criticism of India's approval of a local COVID-19 vaccine without proof of its efficacy grew on Wednesday after news that a regulatory...
Paris: French artificial heart maker Carmat said it was preparing to start selling its products in the second quarter of this year, in...
London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's "Herculean" aim to vaccinate around 14 million of the most vulnerable people against Covid-19 by the middle...
SEOUL, South Korea: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un admitted that his economic development plans have failed as he opened the nation’s first...
Democrat Raphael Warnock ousted Republican Kelly Loeffler in Georgia, NBC, ABC and CBS News projected, leaving control of the U.S. Senate hinging on...
President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. secretary of state denounced Hong Kong’s arrest of dozens of opposition figures under a controversial national security...
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, H H Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, has affirmed that the 41st...
The leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for Arab States confirmed the noble objectives of the GCC, as stipulated in its statute...
