MONTREAL - The Canadian province of Quebec on Tuesday announced plans to tackle earlier mistakes in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, while preparing its...
MONTREAL - The Canadian province of Quebec on Tuesday announced plans to tackle earlier mistakes in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, while preparing its...
SANTIAGO: A stranger disguised as Batman is prowling the streets of Santiago delivering food to the homeless, providing sustenance and light-hearted solace to...
DUBLIN: Ireland significantly tightened its nationwide coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday to try to rein in a surge in cases, urging everyone to restrict...
JOHANNESBURG: Zimbabwe has shortened an overnight curfew imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic and extended business hours despite rising cases, the government said...
PARIS - The French health ministry reported 2,238 confirmed new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, less than recent daily highs but still at levels...
Beirut - Lebanese authorities on Tuesday announced a new lockdown and an overnight curfew to rein in a spike in coronavirus infections. The...
Johannesburg - South Africa will launch clinical trials of a US-developed coronavirus vaccine with 2,900 volunteers this week, the second such study in...
Milwaukee - US President Donald Trump lashed out at former first lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday after she delivered a scathing takedown of...
Port Louis, Mauritius - Mauritius has arrested the captain of a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off its coast, causing a devastating...
WARSAW - Poland's Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski said on Tuesday he was resigning from his post, the second resignation in two days from...
NEW YORK: Americans turned to Walmart’s online business as well as its stores for supplies and home goods as the virus surged in...
BRASILIA: Brazil approved on Tuesday human clinical trials for a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson, the fourth candidate to trial...
Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out any further loosening of virus measures, saying that a doubling in the number of daily cases in Germany...
Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office announced Tuesday that he was replacing his defence minister, a fellow ethnic Oromo and former...
ROME: Travellers returning to Italy from Greece, Spain, Malta and Croatia lined up on Tuesday at centres across Rome to be tested for...
SYDNEY: Australia has signed a deal with drugmaker AstraZeneca to secure a potential COVID-19 vaccine, the Prime Minister said on Tuesday, joining a...
BEIJING: A potential coronavirus vaccine being developed by a unit of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) could cost no more than 1,000 yuan...
PARIS: France will make mask wearing mandatory in work places starting from Sept. 1, with some exceptions, as the country grapples with a...