BRUSSELS: The European Commission has approved a supply contract with U.S. firm Novavax to buy up to 200 million doses of its potential...
BRUSSELS: The European Commission has approved a supply contract with U.S. firm Novavax to buy up to 200 million doses of its potential...
The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September, its head Tedros...
BRUSSELS: The Mediterranean has become a wildfire hotspot, with Turkey hit by its most intense blazes on record and a heatwave producing a...
BEIJING: China reported on Wednesday the most new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since January as some cities stepped up restrictions, cut flights and...
SEOUL: South Korea posted a sharp increase in its coronavirus cases on Wednesday as it struggled to tame its fourth wave of infections...
HANOI: Vietnam will slash the duration of mandatory quarantine for foreign visitors from two weeks to just seven days, its health ministry said...
TOKYO: Japan warned on Wednesday that coronavirus infections were surging at an unprecedented pace as new cases hit a record high in Tokyo,...
Dubai: An Iranian Revolutionary Court has sentenced two dual nationals, German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi and British-Iranian Mehran Raouf, to more than 10 years in...
SYDNEY: Australia's New South Wales reported one of the country's youngest deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, as daily infections lingered near a 16-month...
ATHENS: Extreme temperatures in Greece fuelled wildfires on the mainland and on an island near Athens on Wednesday, a day after a blaze...
BANGKOK: Visitors to Thailand's resort island of Phuket in July were at just 1% of pre-pandemic levels, an official told Reuters, as a...
MILAVCE, Czech Republic: Three people died and eight were seriously injured on Wednesday when a Munich-to-Prague express train ran through a stop signal...
Washington: The party for the nation's 44th president will go on, but only for family and close friends. Former President Barack Obama has...
JAKARTA: Indonesia recorded a grim milestone of more than 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, data from the country’s health ministry showed, with...
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin defied on Wednesday mounting pressure to quit, saying he retained majority support among lawmakers and would...
Athens: A wildfire that set homes and cars on fire on the outskirts of Athens and forced residents to flee was receding on...
Kabul: A blast near the office of Afghanistan's main security agency wounded three people on Wednesday hours after a bomb and gun attack...
Teenagers in Britain aged 16 and 17 will be given the green light for COVID-19 vaccine within days before they head back to...
