BEIJING: The COVID-19 situation at the Beijing Winter Olympics is within the "expected controllable range" despite increasing positive cases being detected, a senior...
BEIJING: The COVID-19 situation at the Beijing Winter Olympics is within the "expected controllable range" despite increasing positive cases being detected, a senior...
About 6,500 people have been told to evacuate their homes in Winston-Salem, North Carolina due to a fire at a fertilizer plant storing...
BUCHAREST: The number of new coronavirus infections in Romania reached a record high of 40,018 in the past 24 hours, government data showed...
TOKYO: More than half of Tokyo's hospital beds set aside for COVID-19 patients were occupied on Tuesday, a level that officials have previously...
Oslo: British nature broadcaster David Attenborough, the World Health Organization and Belarusian dissident Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya are among the nominees for this year's Nobel...
Thailand expects to welcome hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers a month with the kickoff of a quarantine-free visa program that’s set to serve...
New studies are emerging that suggest the latest version of the highly-infectious omicron variant is transmitting even faster than the original, and mild...
Indiaplans to launch a central bank digital currency in the financial year starting in April, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her budget...
LONDON- The British government plans to revoke its decision to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for health workers in England after warnings that an...
JOHANNESBURG- South Africa no longer requires those who test positive for COVID-19 without symptoms to isolate and has also reduced the isolation period...
Novavax Inc said on Monday it has filed for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine for U.S. adults, a long-awaited step for...
COPENHAGEN- The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant, which has quickly taken over in Denmark, is more transmissible than the more common...
BERLIN- The German government is set to miss a target of giving at least one shot of coronavirus vaccine to 80% of the...
Moderna Inc said on Monday it had received full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its COVID-19 vaccine for...
OTTAWA- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday he had tested positive for COVID-19 but was feeling fine and would continue to...
OTTAWA- Police, and officials in the Canadian capital Ottawa said some of the trucks blocking the city center as part of an anti-vaccine...
LONDON- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised and vowed to "fix it" after a report on Monday into lockdown parties held at his...
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates will introduce a federal corporate tax on business profits starting from June 1, 2023 for the first time,...