Several thousand anti-lockdown demonstrators marched through central London on Saturday despite restrictions on mass gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was billed by organisers: “Unite for Freedom”. The protesters

At least 27 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in the capital of Iraq, Baghdad.  Dozens of others were injured in the blaze,

Japan will hold a joint military drill with US and French troops in the country’s southwest next month, the defence minister has announced, as China’s actions in regional waters raise

Caitlyn Jenner, a former Olympic decathlete and reality television star, has filed paperwork to challenge California’s governor Gavin Newsom in a recall election. Jenner, a US sports icon and gold

 The European Medicines Agency has advised people who have received a first dose of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to get the second one despite the rare risk of blood clots that

Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he is ending his hunger strike after getting medical attention and being warned by his doctors that continuing it would put his life at

A Norwegian climber hoping to summit Mount Everest has tested positive for Covid-19, in a blow to Nepal’s hopes for a mountaineering season on the world’s highest peak. The pandemic

At least 13 patients have died after a fire broke out in the intensive care unit of an Indian hospital treating Covid patients near Mumbai. The blaze, which took place

Rescue aircraft and ships scoured the sea north of Bali on Friday as the hunt for a missing Indonesian submarine with 53 crew on board reached a critical phase due

Russia will on Friday begin returning troops to permanent bases inside the country, pulling them back from near the border with Ukraine. Thursday’s announcement comes after weeks of tensions between

Amid a scramble to secure enough coronavirus vaccines in the Americas, there are reports of fake doses proliferating on the black market in several countries in the region, the Pan

Hong Kong police have arrested a man after a 90-year-old woman lost around HK$247 million ($32 million) in a scam. The woman contacted police on March 2 and told them

President Vladimir Putin has used his annual state-of-the-nation speech to warn that Russia is prepared to respond harshly to any foreign provocations, as a rift between Moscow and the West

The US State Department has branded as an “unprovoked escalation” reported Russian plans to block parts of the Black Sea, which could ultimately impact access to Ukrainian ports amid heightened

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) said on Tuesday it will resume rolling out its Covid-19 vaccine in Europe after the region’s medical regulator said the benefits of the shot outweigh the

Relief, even if fleeting and momentary, is a feeling that Black Americans have rarely known in America: From slavery to Jim Crow segregation to enduring punishments for living while Black,

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the world’s oldest monarch, turns 95 on Wednesday, but there will be no public celebrations of an occasion that comes just days after she bade a sad

Notable figures and celebrities have hailed the conviction of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. Writing on Twitter, former US President Barack Obama said the jury’s

US President Joe Biden said the conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd “can be a giant step forward” for the nation in

Experts at the European Medicines Agency are preparing to present the conclusions of their investigation into possible links between the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and very rare cases of