The US Senate’s Republican leader has rejected calls from an unlikely alliance of President Donald Trump, congressional Democrats and some Republicans to boost coronavirus aid. Mitch McConnell said hiking aid
The leading U.S. infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said on Wednesday he foresees America achieving enough collective Covid-19 immunity through vaccinations to regain “some semblance of normality” by autumn
At least 20 people were killed and dozens more wounded in an attack on Aden airport moments after a plane carrying the newly formed Saudi-backed cabinet landed. Hours after
A Chinese drugmaker says its coronavirus vaccine was found to be 79.3% effective at preventing infection, moving Beijing closer to possibly being able to fulfill its pledge to supply other
US President-elect Joe Biden has criticised the Trump administration for its pace of distributing Covid-19 vaccines and predicted that “things will get worse before they get better” when it comes
Deep in the lush mountain valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the closest known relative of the COVID-19 virus. The
Argentina became the first major country in Latin America to legalize abortion when the Senate voted early on Wednesday to allow it through the 14th week of pregnancy, in the
The first reported US case of the highly-infectious Covid-19 variant that emerged in the UK has been confirmed in the state of Colorado. The patient, a man in his 20s
The European Union’s top officials have formally signed the post-Brexit trade deal with the United Kingdom. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president Charles Michel put
Pierre Cardin, the French designer whose Space Age style was among the iconic looks of 20th-century fashion, has died at 98. A licensing maverick, Cardin’s name embossed myriad products from
US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received her first dose of the Moderna COVID -19 vaccine before live television cameras as part of a growing effort to convince the US public
An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck central Croatia on Tuesday, killing at least five people, including a child, and injuring at least 20. Rescuers pulled people from the rubble of
The latest report by Reporters Without Borders has shown that fifty journalists and media workers were killed in connection with their work in 2020. The watchdog said the majority of
The Democratic-led US House of Representatives has voted to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a $740 billion defence policy bill, a move that underscored divisions in the Republican Party
India has found six people who returned from Britain in recent weeks with a more infectious strain of the novel coronavirus that has prompted border closures around the world. All
A white police officer in Columbus, Ohio, has been fired for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man last week in what the city’s police chief deemed an “unreasonable use of
The US House has voted overwhelmingly to increase Covid-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting President Donald Trump’s demand for bigger payments. The bill will be to the GOP-controlled Senate, where
US President-elect Joe Biden criticised President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the US’s foreign policy and national security apparatus, saying “many of those agencies that are critical to our security have
One of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent women’s rights activists has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison under a vague and broadly worded counterterrorism law. The ruling nearly brings
Finland has become the latest European country to report the presence of two new coronavirus variants – one stemming from the UK and the other from South Africa. Health officials said
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