AstraZeneca Plc said on Sunday a review of safety data of people vaccinated with its COVID-19 vaccine has shown no evidence of an increased risk of blood clots. AstraZeneca’s review, which covered more than 17 million people vaccinated in the United Kingdom...
A new coronavirus variant has been found in the French region of Brittany, said the French health ministry in a statement late on Monday, adding that initial analysis did not show this new variant to be more serious or transmissible than others. The health...
The United States and Britain turned up the international pressure on Myanmar’s ruling junta on Thursday by blacklisting military-controlled businesses, but troops reportedly shot dead nine more protesters in the generals’ campaign to crush dissent. Thousands...
Eritrea has agreed to withdraw its troops from Ethiopian territory along their joint border, Ethiopia's prime minister said on Friday, days after first acknowledging Eritrean forces had entered Ethiopia's northern Tigray region during an almost five-month...
A collision between two trains killed at least 32 passengers and left more than 100 injured on Friday in Egypt. President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi pledged tough punishment for those responsible for the crash, which came as his government wrestles with another...
The Suez Canal, one of the busiest waterways worldwide, is facing a significant blockage following the halting of a large vessel. Problems on the high seas According to reports, authorities have been working for the past two days to free up the canal’s...
Dredging and tugging aimed at freeing a mega vessel stuck in the Suez Canal failed on Friday to end a blockage that has lifted shipping rates for fuel tankers and scrambled global supply chains for everything from grains to baby clothes. US President...
The civilian death toll in the Myanmar military's crackdown on protesters passed 520 as armed rebel groups on Tuesday threatened the junta with retaliation if the bloodshed does not stop. World powers have ramped up their condemnation of the military's...
Egypt is expecting more than $1 billion in compensation after a cargo ship blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week, according to the top canal official. He also warned the ship and its cargo will not be allowed leave Egypt if the issue of damages goes...
The United Nations mission in Mali said on Friday that four peacekeepers were killed and several others injured in an attack on its base in the northern town of Aguelhok. Peacekeepers repelled the attack on the camp that was carried out by several “heavily...
More than 1,800 inmates have escaped after heavily armed men attacked a prison in southwest Nigeria using explosives, prison authorities said on Monday. The attackers blasted their way into the Owerri prison in Imo state, engaging guards in a gun battle,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday gave final approval to legislation allowing him to hold office for two additional six-year terms, giving himself the possibility to stay in power until 2036. The 68-year-old Russian leader, who has already been...
Military guns will be fired across Britain and sporting events will fall silent on Saturday as part of worldwide tributes to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II' s husband, Prince Philip. Philip, the longest serving royal consort in British history and...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has criticised what it describes as a "shocking imbalance" in the distribution of coronavirus vaccines between rich and poor countries. "There remains a shocking imbalance in the global distribution of vaccines," WHO...
Thirty-four migrants have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday, the second such accident in just over a month. "The migrants were being transported by people smugglers......
President Joe Biden has decided to leave American troops in Afghanistan beyond the May 1 deadline negotiated with the Taleban by the Trump administration, and has set the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks as the new goal, US officials said...
Barcelona have leapfrogged Spanish rivals Real Madrid to become the world’s most valuable soccer club with a valuation of $4.76 billion, according to a list published by business magazine Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2021/04/12/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion...
France will impose a 10-day quarantine on arrivals from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and South Africa over concerns about variants of the coronavirus, the prime minister’s office announced Saturday. Although flights from Argentina, Chile and South Africa...
A wildfire raging on the slopes of Cape Town’s Table Mountain forced the evacuation of students from the University of Cape Town on Sunday. Wind spread the blaze across dry brush and burned part of the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant, according to local media....
A train accident north of Cairo on Sunday left 97 people injured, Egypt’s health ministry said, in the latest rail calamity to hit the North African country. The ministry said “97 citizens were injured in a train accident in Toukh”, a small farming town...
Chad's President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the front line of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a sixth term in office. Deby's campaign said on Monday that...
India recorded more than 2,000 Covid deaths on Wednesday and almost 300,000 new cases, among the world's biggest daily totals since the pandemic began, official data showed. Health ministry figures showed 295,000 new cases in 24 hours, on a par with numbers...
Uganda will suspend flights to and from India after midnight on Saturday amid the coronavirus surge in the Southeast Asian nation, the country's health ministry said on Friday, two days after neighbouring Kenya did the same. Also on Friday, a senior Ugandan...
The World Health Organization expects to release its assessments for emergency use listing of the two main Chinese vaccines for Covid-19 as well as the Moderna shot by the end of next week, WHO Assistant Director-General Mariangela Simao said on Friday....
Worldwide Covid-19 cases passed 150 million on Friday, according to an AFP count, with numbers soaring recently due to a relentless second wave in India. 150.3 million cases have been declared since the virus was first discovered in China in December...