LONDON- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed tougher COVID-19 restrictions in England on Wednesday, ordering people to work from home, wear masks in...
LONDON- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed tougher COVID-19 restrictions in England on Wednesday, ordering people to work from home, wear masks in...
GENEVA- Governments need to reassess national responses to COVID-19 and speed up vaccination programmes to tackle Omicron, though it is it too early...
STOCKHOLM- Sweden has asked Norway for assistance in fighting a fire that started on a cargo ship carrying timber off Sweden's west coast...
PRAGUE- Slovakia will on Friday re-open non-essential shops and some services for those vaccinated against COVID-19 while at the same time extending a...
LONDON- An adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has quit after a video surfaced of her laughing and joking about a party...
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE said initial lab studies show a third dose of their Covid-19 vaccine neutralizes the omicron variant, results that...
LONDON: The first person in the world to be given a fully-tested COVID-19 vaccine, 91-year-old Briton Margaret Keenan, urged people on Wednesday to...
Berlin: German lawmakers elected Social Democrat Olaf Scholz as new chancellor on Wednesday, ending 16 years of conservative rule under Angela Merkel and...
MADRID: Two Spanish police officers waded into a frozen reservoir to rescue a stranded dog as a cold front arrived in the northern...
As global traffic starts to recover from pandemic lockdowns earlier this year, London has emerged as the most congested city in the world....
FRANKFURT- The German state of Saxony, among the hardest hit by surging COVID-19 infections, will start vaccinating at-risk children under 12 years of...
BRUSSELS- EU health ministers discussed measures to try to halt the spread of the Omicron variant on Tuesday, with the Netherlands calling for...
COPENHAGEN: Denmark's Health Minister Magnus Heunicke on Tuesday tested positive for COVID-19 and is now self-isolating in a hotel in Brussels, the ministry...
WASHINGTON:President Joe Biden is ready to warn Vladimir Putin during a video call Tuesday that Russia will face economy-jarring sanctions if it invades...
KYIV: A truck collided with a minibus on a highway in northern Ukraine on Tuesday morning, killing at least ten people and injuring...
British drugmaker GSK said on Tuesday its antibody-based COVID-19 therapy with U.S. partner Vir Biotechnology is effective against all mutations of the new...
PARIS- France will close nightclubs ahead of Christmas and tighten social distancing measures in response to the emergent Omicron variant of the coronavirus...
PRAGUE- The Czech government will order COVID-19 vaccinations for people working in hospitals and nursing homes as well as police officers, soldiers and...
