DOUALA: Residents of several neighbourhoods in Cameroon's commercial capital Douala woke up to waist-deep flood water on Thursday after torrential rains battered the...
DOUALA: Residents of several neighbourhoods in Cameroon's commercial capital Douala woke up to waist-deep flood water on Thursday after torrential rains battered the...
SYDNEY: Extra Australian military personnel may be called in to ensure compliance with lockdown rules in Sydney, the New South Wales state government...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has mandated its health care workforce to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Health Secretary Xavier...
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia started offering coronavirus vaccine booster shots on Thursday in a renewed public health drive after managing to inoculate more than...
SYDNEY: Australian marine rescuers were working on Thursday to free a humpback whale entangled in a shark net off Queensland's Gold Coast. Footage...
ROME: Fires stoked by hot winds swept through southern Italy on Thursday, a day after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand: New Zealand, which has completely stamped out the coronavirus, plans to cautiously reopen its borders to international travelers early next...
Beirut: The Lebanese government will discuss a law on Thursday allowing the central bank to use its mandatory reserve to keep subsidising fuel...
HANOI: Vietnam's government on Thursday said it was facing a tense situation over rising coronavirus cases and a shortage of vaccines, as the...
TOKYO: Japan's top health adviser said on Thursday he would request stricter emergency measures for about two weeks to tackle a spike in...
Kabul: Taliban fighters in Afghanistan captured the strategic city of Ghazni on Thursday, the ninth provincial capital they have seized in a week...
ANYANG, South Korea: A South Korean hospital has upgraded a COVID-19 testing booth to become a mobile contactless clinic that can test people...
NAIROBI: Kenya's oxygen production firm Hewatele is doubling production this year to keep up with surging demand from hospitals that are treating critically...
London: As Britain enjoyed a summertime lull in COVID-19 cases, the nation’s attention turned to the end of pandemic-related restrictions and holidays in...
SEOUL: South Korea is considering mandating its largest hospitals provide at least 1.5% of their intensive care beds for severe COVID-19 patients as...
HELSINKI: Finland on Thursday registered a record number of new coronavirus infections in the space of a day, driven by the highly contagious...
BEIJING/SINGAPORE: Congestion off China's top two container ports Shanghai and Ningbo is worsening following the shutdown of a container terminal in Ningbo where...
Bengaluru: An Indian rocket carrying a powerful earth observation satellite failed to fire fully on Thursday, the state-run space agency said, in a...