MADRID: At least 500 people have been evacuated from their homes and road traffic has been disrupted as firefighting teams and planes fight...
MADRID: At least 500 people have been evacuated from their homes and road traffic has been disrupted as firefighting teams and planes fight...
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Thursday will outline new approaches to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, which rages on despite...
BANGKOK: Thailand plans to reopen Bangkok and other key destinations to foreign tourists next month, officials said on Thursday, aiming to revive its...
SINGAPORE: Singapore is ramping up COVID-19 testing and has warned it would not rule out reimposing tighter curbs as infections rise - moves...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Qatari envoy says Qatar Airways plane at Kabul international airport will fly Americans, Westerners out of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's Kabul Airport is...
Geneva: Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for a global moratorium on Covid-19 booster doses at least until...
China has temporarily suspended approval for all new online games in a bid to curb a gaming addiction among young people, the South...
Cape Town: Five youths from Cape Town's Langa township squeeze into wetsuits for a snorkelling lesson with South Africa's first Black diving coach...
WELLINGTON: Around a quarter of a million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine bought from Spain will arrive in New Zealand this week,...
SEOUL: South Korean researchers say they have developed an artificial skin-like material, inspired by natural biology, that can quickly adjust its hues like...
SKOPJE, North Macedonia: North Macedonia's government will hold an emergency meeting Thursday over a fire overnight that ripped through a field hospital set...
Louisiana's death toll from Hurricane Ida rose to 26 on Wednesday after health officials reported 11 additional deaths in New Orleans. Of those...
TOKYO: Japan said on Thursday it will extend emergency COVID-19 restrictions in Tokyo and other regions until the end of this month to...
WASHINGTON - The White House unveiled a new plan to combat COVID-19 as the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads and some 80 million...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Capitol Police is increasing security in preparation for potential violence at a Sept. 18 rally in which followers of...
Europe's medicines regulator has added an extremely rare nerve-damaging disorder, Guillain-Barré syndrome, as a possible side-effect of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, regular safety updates...
The World Health Organization on Wednesday said low-income countries were ready to run effective COVID-19 vaccination campaigns and it was now down to...
BERLIN - Germany is extending its COVID-19 emergency aid for struggling companies by three months until the end of this year, the finance...