U.S. officials for the first time on Monday issued an official water shortage declaration for the massive Western reservoir of Lake Mead, triggering...
U.S. officials for the first time on Monday issued an official water shortage declaration for the massive Western reservoir of Lake Mead, triggering...
WELLINGTON: New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put the nation under strict lockdown on Tuesday after one new case of the coronavirus was...
SYDNEY: COVID-19 cases are set to "rise substantially" in Sydney in the coming weeks despite a prolonged lockdown, authorities said on Tuesday, warning...
Tokyo: Maki Kaji, the creator of the popular numbers puzzle Sudoku whose life's work was spreading the joy of puzzles, has died, his...
FUKUOKA/TOKYO: Japan was set on Tuesday to extend its state of emergency in Tokyo and other regions to Sept. 12 and widen curbs...
NEW DELHI: India administered more than 8.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the past 24 hours, government data showed on Tuesday, close...
The Biden administration plans to begin administering COVID-19 booster shots to Americans as early as mid or late September, pending authorization from the...
Washington: President Joe Biden said on Monday he stood "squarely behind" his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan despite searing images of...
PARIS - France dispatched hundreds of firefighters to battle a wildfire that broke out in the Var region of southern France, Interior Minister...
Tropical Storm Fred slammed the Florida Panhandle on Monday afternoon, making landfall with a wet slap of heavy rain and blasting winds at...
Local officials in Texas who have been battling their governor over mask mandates said they would continue to require face coverings in schools...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on Monday against travel to Turkey because of a rising number...
NEW YORK - All healthcare workers in New York state must be vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they have a medical or religious exemption,...
MADRID - Spanish authorities have evacuated nearly 1,000 people from their homes to protect them from a wildfire that has destroyed at least...
More than a million acres of California landscape have been torched and Golden State firefighters are bracing for more conflagrations this week. Crews...
The number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States hit a record high of just over 1,900 on Saturday, as hospitals...
PARIS - Shopping malls in Paris and large parts of France had to ask customers to show a health pass on Monday, as...
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE submitted early-stage data to U.S. regulators showing that a third dose of their Covid-19 vaccine led to higher...
