After Prince Philip's funeral on Saturday at St. George's Chapel on the Windsor Castle grounds, his casket will be lowered into an opening in the stone floor -- but ...
The late Prince Philip's Duke of Edinburgh title has passed to Prince Charles, as his eldest son and heir to the throne. While the title's next holder will be Charles' ...
Hong Kong (CNN) A Hong Kong court has sentenced several of the city's leading pro-democracy campaigners to between 8 and 18 months in prison over their ...
Iran began enriching uranium Friday to its highest level ever, edging closer to weapons-grade levels to pressure talks in Vienna aimed at restoring its nuclear ...
President Biden can put U.S. back on the road to a nuclear weapons-free Iran, but he needs backing from Maryland's congressional delegation including ...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said that authorities in his prison threatened to force-feed him because his health was declining so much amid his ...
The European Union must pressure Moscow to allow Alexei Navalny to have access to his doctor, allies of the hunger-striking Kremlin critic wrote in a letter sent ...
The team of imprisoned Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has published details of what it alleges is a lavish residence belonging to President Vladimir Putin and ...
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Friday that prison authorities have threatened to put him in a straitjacket to force-feed him unless he abandons his ...
President Biden meets with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday, his first in-person summit since taking office. Talks are expected to focus on ...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will meet with President Biden and top aides in the afternoon, and the two leaders will hold a news conference. The visit is an ...
Washington's cherry blossoms are beyond their peak, but the U.S.-Japan alliance will be in full bloom this Friday when Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga becomes ...
Australia on Friday reported its first fatality from blood clots in a recipient of AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) COVID-19 shot, and its regulator said there was a likely link ...
Potential issues with the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson shots have dented the global vaccination drive. But they are a bigger blow for developing ...
GENEVA (Reuters) -The number of new COVID-19 cases per week has nearly doubled globally over the past two months, approaching the highest rate seen so ...
The head of the World Health Organization said coronavirus cases are continuing to rise globally at “worrying” rates and noted that the number of new cases ...
Opponents of Myanmar's junta announced a National Unity Government on Friday including ousted members of parliament and leaders of anti-coup protests ...
Opponents of Myanmar's ruling junta went on the political offensive Friday, declaring they have formed an interim national unity government with members of ...
Opponents of military rule in Myanmar observed a “silent strike” on Friday, with many people staying home to mourn the more than 700 people killed in protests ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany will exit the world stage in less than six months, and the fight for her seat is pitting the leaders of two sister parties against ...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan briefly blocked access to all social media on Friday, after days of anti-French protests across the country by radical Islamists ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan blocked access to all social media on Friday, after days of anti-French protests across the country by radical Islamists opposed to ...
The parochialism of Islam is one of the hot topics urgently being discussed in Europe. The misrepresentation of Muslims through media and the press is a...
The farcical situation now is that banning the Tehreek e Labbaik Party defeats the army's own original purpose: political engineering. Gul Bukhari writes.
THE government has officially banned the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan and issued a notification accordingly. This extreme step comes in response to nearly ...
China is ratcheting up pressure over Japan's plan to release treated water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, calling on ...
Brent Heuser, an engineering professor at the University of Illinois, said Japan's plan to release treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear ...
The US has backed its ally's decision to dump 1 million tonnes of radioactive waste water into the Pacific Ocean – even as regional governments, environmental ...
The Japanese government has been forced to quickly retire an animated character it had hoped would win support for its decision this week to release more ...
Hong Kong businesses are facing a "compounded new normal" as the city confronts challenges on multiple fronts, according to the president of the American ...
The shift to a forceful inculcation of national security issues, even among young children, comes as Beijing increases its control over almost all sectors and ...
Chinese state media has aired the purported confession of a Belizean businessman sentenced to 11 years in prison this month for allegedly conspiring with US ...
Hundreds of thousands of ash-smeared ascetics and devout Hindus jostled to take a dip in the Ganges during a religious festival on Wednesday, hoping to wash ...
The coronavirus pandemic has brought countries to a standstill. Meanwhile, vaccinations have already started in some countries as cases continue to rise.
Dehradun: In a major development late on Thursday, the Uttarakhand government has passed orders placing a cap of 200 people at gatherings for religious, ...
In this week's The Taste, Vir Sanghvi writes, "Millions will suffer while our politicians organise crowded rallies and encourage such gatherings as the Kumbh ...
Health officials in Brazil say many hospitals are running dangerously short of sedatives and other crucial medications used for treating gravely ill COVID-19 ...
An emergency shipment of sedatives needed to intubate severely ill COVID-19 patients arrived in Brazil late on Thursday from China, as the South American ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazil's hospitals were running out of drugs needed to sedate COVID-19 patients on Thursday, with the government urgently ...
Officials in St. Vincent said Thursday that they were extremely worried about a COVID-19 outbreak given the lack of water and more positive cases being ...
Volcanic eruptions on St Vincent have blanketed the Caribbean island in ash, forcing 16,000 residents from their homes and leaving many without power or ...
Thailand reported on Friday its fifth record daily tally of coronavirus cases this week, as authorities set up thousands of field hospitals to cope with an influx of ...
India extended a record daily run of new COVID-19 infections on Friday, spurred by hundreds of positive tests at a major religious gathering, as politicians ...
Thailand will close close schools, bars and massage parlours, as well as ban alcohol sales in restaurants, for at least two weeks starting from Sunday after a ...
Paraguay desperately needs Covid-19 vaccines, which China could supply. That has led the South American nation to reconsider its relationship with Taiwan, ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has finalized a deal with Russia to purchase 60 million doses of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the state-run IRNA news agency ...
South Korea's Huons Global Co Ltd (084110.KQ) will lead a consortium to produce 100 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine per month, ...
Finland's health minister said on Thursday the Nordic country was initiating talks with Russia over buying its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, which has yet to be ...
Russia's COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, has been approved for use in dozens of countries, and it's also under review by the European Medicines Agency. But the ...
Combining a holiday with a medical or cosmetic surgery is not uncommon, but the COVID-19 pandemic has given birth to a new kind of tourism. Vaccine tourism ...
New research from the University of Oxford finds that the risk of developing blood clots is higher from COVID-19 itself than from vaccines given to prevent it.
The littlest research volunteers arrived at Stanford University on Wednesday, accompanied by their parents, to participate in a pivotal study of the COVID-19 ...
The risk of developing a serious brain clot - known as a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) - is 8 to 10 times higher in people with Covid than those who ...
All medicines, including those sold over the counter, come with a risk to the user. And as those otherwise breezy commercials for pharmaceuticals remind us, the ...
We are in a lucky situation where we can, with some logistical re-shuffling, offer alternative and effective vaccines to individuals vulnerable to side-effects.
The U.K. and the European Union plan to meet again in the next two weeks after failing to resolve their differences over how the Brexit trade deal is affecting ...
The European Union insisted on Friday that Britain not change trading rules in Northern Ireland on its own and said it would continue legal action against ...
The leaders of Ukraine, France and Germany will hold three-way talks on Friday about Ukraine's standoff with Russia over the conflict in the eastern Donbass ...
MOSCOW, April 16. /TASS/. The reduction in number of ceasefire violations in southeastern Ukraine is not a reason to calm down and ease attention to the ...
Facing a sudden surge in coronavirus infections, India is once again home to the world's second-largest outbreak, overtaking Brazil after the latter moved ahead ...
The number of new COVID-19 infections across the country is trending in the wrong direction. In just the past month, the U.S. has seen a 30% increase in new ...
Covid-19 is much deadlier in Brazil than in India, and no one knows why. Chris Kay tells Kurumi Mori more as India is once again home to the world's ...
India's two largest cities – with a combined population of more than 37 million people – have effectively been shut down after the nation's daily coronavirus ...
In early 2020, it would have been hard to argue that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government were not focused squarely on the challenge posed by ...
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias clashed with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday at a joint news conference in Ankara that began with ...
The foreign ministers of Turkey and Greece clashed openly on Thursday at a joint news conference in Ankara that began with hopes of improved relations but ...
Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias said talks in Ankara were “extensive, open and sincere,” speaking after meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut ...
Thursday's meeting of the foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey in Ankara will not suddenly usher in a new era of friendship between the two countries.
Germany's highest court has ruled that a rent cap imposed by the Berlin state government is illegal, dealing a huge blow to those who have campaigned to keep ...
BERLIN — Germany's Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled a rent cap in Berlin to be null and void, leaving many renters in the country's capital with the ...
BERLIN—One of the world's most radical anti-gentrification experiments came to an end on Thursday after Germany's constitutional court declared Berlin's ...
Despite a promise to leave, Eritrea's troops remain in northern Ethiopia, aiding the Ethiopian government campaign there, a senior U.N. official told the Security ...
The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the grave humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region is deteriorating, with no sign of Eritrean ...
The young mother was trying to get home with food for her two children when she says soldiers pulled her off a minibus in Ethiopia's Tigray region, claiming it ...
UN's top humanitarian official warns conflict 'is not over' and says 'vast majority' of northern Ethiopian region 'is completely or partially inaccessible' for aid ...
Hong Kong marked National Security Education Day with speeches warning against dissent and a police detail goose-stepping in the locked-knee marching ...
As Hong Kong for the first celebrated the National Security Education Day on Thursday with unprecedented activities, local and central government officials ...
HONG KONG — Teddy bears clad in black police riot gear, on sale for more than $60 apiece. Schoolchildren's messages of gratitude to the authorities, pasted ...
Gasping for air, two men wearing oxygen masks share a bed in a government hospital in India's capital New Delhi, victims of the country's growing COVID-19 ...
PARIS — The French Parliament on Thursday adopted legislation that characterizes sex with a child under the age of 15 as rape and punishable by up to 20 ...
The Assemblée nationale gave the legislation unanimous final approval following a wave of allegations of sexual abuse and incest described as France's ...
France has finally brought its laws against sex with children in line with those of most other Western nations. Under a bill that was unanimously approved by the ...
The French Parliament has adopted a law against sexual violence against children, setting the age of consent at 15 years old. Sex with a child under 15 will now ...
The Israeli military struck targets in the Gaza Strip early Friday, hours after Palestinian terrorists in the coastal enclave fired a rocket at southern Israel. An Israel ...
Israel's celebration of its 73rd Independence Day on Thursday was incomplete due to the ongoing, painful affair of the missing fallen soldiers and Israeli captives ...
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at southern Israel on Thursday night, striking an open field, as the country's Independence Day festivities ...
Egyptian authorities have seized the Ever Given cargo ship that was lodged in the Suez Canal for several days last month, ordering the ship's owner to pay $900 ...
The blockage of the canal held up an estimated $9.6 billion worth of cargo each day and cost Egypt almost $15 million daily in revenue from the waterway.
The Ever Given container ship has been impounded after its owner refused to pay a compensation of 655 million euros for blocking the Suez Canal. On April 12 ...
Egyptian authorities have seized the giant Ever Given cargo ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week last month and are demanding $916 million ...
Egypt seized the giant container vessel that blocked the Suez Canal last month as part of an effort to get more than $900 million in compensation. A court in the ...
France has advised French citizens to temporarily leave Pakistan and warned of serious threats to French interests in the country, two diplomatic sources said on ...
Chief of the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) Muhammad Saad Rizvi has asked his followers to "immediately end all protests and road blockages", ...
Violent anti-French protests have paralyzed Pakistan for the past few days. The architect of these demonstrations is the Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan party, which ...
Top intelligence officers from India and Pakistan held secret talks in Dubai in January in a new effort to calm military tension over the disputed Himalayan region ...
WASHINGTON: Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is more likely to respond with military force to “perceived or real” provocations from ...
In the first official confirmation of the United Arab Emirates playing a role in bringing Delhi and Islamabad to the talks table, the UAE's envoy to the US has said ...
