Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday announced that parliamentary and presidential elections will take place in the country for the first time in 15 ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas published a decree on Friday announcing the dates for parliamentary and presidential elections in the Palestinian ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday decreed parliamentary and presidential elections for later this year in what would be the first vote of its kind ...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree Friday, setting parliamentary and presidential elections for later this year in ...
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his entire Cabinet resigned Friday to take political responsibility for a scandal involving investigations into child welfare ...
A scandal over childcare subsidies that has rocked the Netherlands -- which wrongfully drove thousands of families into financial ruin -- has now resulted in the ...
During a media briefing on Friday, Governor Tony Evers said Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar lied to him by ...
States were anticipating a windfall after federal officials said they would stop holding back second doses. But the policy had already changed, and no stockpile ...
A reserve of second-dose COVID-19 vaccines set to be repurposed as first doses is already empty, state and federal officials briefed on distribution plans tell The ...
States were anticipating a windfall after federal officials said they would stop holding back second doses. But the approach had already changed, and no ...
Pfizer Inc. will decrease deliveries of its Covid-19 vaccine to countries outside the U.S. in the next three to four weeks as it renovates a factory in Belgium.
A top doctor for Norway's drug regulatory agency on Friday suggested side effects from the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine may have contributed to deaths ...
US pharmaceutical company Pfizer has confirmed it will temporarily reduce deliveries to Europe of its Covid-19 vaccine while it upgrades production capacity to ...
The Trump administration has upended decades of diplomatic practice in U.S. relations with Taiwan. For the new president, "this is meant to be a trap," says a ...
It's an open question whether Donald Trump will go down as the worst president in American history (James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson remain formidable ...
China arguably weathered the chaos of 2020 better than any other major power. In the months ahead, its leader, Xi Jinping, appears ready to press his ...
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom is banning travel from the whole of South America and Portugal amid concerns over a new variant of the coronavirus in ...
"The Conversation" sat down with Penn State's David Kennedy, associate biology professor, to learn more about new variants of COVID-19. (The Conversation ...
A strong, shallow earthquake shook Indonesia's Sulawesi island just after midnight Friday, toppling homes and buildings, triggering landslides. At least 42 ...
A powerful earthquake killed at least 42 people and injured hundreds on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi on Friday, trapping several under rubble and unleashing ...
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) At least 67 people have died after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's Sulawesi island early Friday, according to the head of ...
New Delhi said it plans to inoculate some 300 million people in the first phase of the vaccination exercise, including health-care and other frontline workers.
PUNE, India — India on Friday was preparing to launch one of the most ambitious and complex nationwide campaigns in its history: the rollout of coronavirus ...
BERLIN — Germany's largest political party will choose a new leader on Saturday, with the winner well positioned to succeed Angela Merkel as the next ...
Each Monday morning at the state chancellery in Munich, officials run through the week's events and cherry-pick the best PR opportunities for Bavarian Premier ...
When Chancellor Angela Merkel steps down later this year, few expect Germany's policy toward China to change, potentially complicating President-elect Joe ...
Turkey has vaccinated more than 600000 people in the first two days of administering COVID-19 shots developed by China's Sinovac, health ministry data ...
Oregon and other states will not receive increased shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine from the national stockpile next week because no such stockpile exists.
I get it. I understand the optics here and that attacking folks who took up the habit of smoking and who are now addicted may be politically expedient,” Murphy ...
Emergent BioSolutions is under contract with Operation Warp Speed to make COVID-19 vaccines, but the terms could allow employees and their families to get ...
President-elect Joe Biden, whose administration will take over the pandemic response in six days, on Thursday announced a $1.9 trillion economic and ...
A health care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Teaneck, New Jersey, on January 13. Christopher Occhicone/Bloomberg/Getty ...
BEIJING (AP) — China says it is now treating more than 1000 people for COVID-19 as numbers of cases continue to surge in the country's north. The National ...
China reported the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases in more than 10 months, official data showed on Friday, due to a severe outbreak in the northeast ...
BEIJING — China says it is now treating more than 1,000 people for COVID-19 as numbers of cases continue to surge in the country's north. The National Health ...
Mainland China on Thursday reported its first death from coronavirus since May amid a flareup of cases ripping through communities just outside of Beijing.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Thursday heavily underscored mistrust in Chinese leadership, offering a nearly day-by-day account of ...
BEIJING (AP) — A city in northern China is building a 3000-unit quarantine facility to deal with an anticipated overflow of patients as COVID-19 cases rise ahead ...
The WHO team of international researchers that arrived in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday hopes to find clues to the origin of the COVID-19 ...
Team members of the World Health Organization's mission to study the origin of the coronavirus arrived in Wuhan, China, on Thursday, but two researchers are ...
The state's announcement that people 65 and older will be able to get the coronavirus vaccine has produced frustration as appointments and even information ...
California is weeks into its vaccination campaign to end to coronavirus pandemic, but the effort has been slow. Latest on doses in Sacramento-area counties and ...
As public health officials scramble to clear a backlog of unused COVID-19 vaccine by opening the process to anyone 65 or older, new data show they failed to ...
California counties requested more coronavirus vaccine as the state added a potential 4 to 6 million people to those eligible for the sought-after doses.
With the worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topping 2 million on Friday, a new variant of the virus that has begun spreading in the United States ...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's flip-flop on lockdowns and regulations "make it impossible for us to operate," a New York City bar owner told "America's ...
While we may not know the full impact of the pandemic on our kids' education for years, we do know the lack of high-speed internet for our rural kids will multiply ...
Rep. Jim Banks, R-IN, reacts to an op-ed explaining House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's, D-Calif., legislative agenda and CNN host Don Lemon's comments on ...
HONG KONG (AP) — An American lawyer who became the first foreigner arrested under Hong Kong's national security law said Friday that the courts now have ...
HONG KONG — One by one, the Hong Kong democracy activists last weekend began switching their Twitter profile pictures to the instantly recognizable image ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's security chief said on Friday that police surveillance of communications can come under the city's national security law, ...
A Chinese lawyer who represented a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist has been stripped of his license amid efforts by Beijing to crush opposition to its tighter ...
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is racing to forge a new majority that would keep him in power after a junior ally abandoned him, with the day of reckoning ...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Containment efforts have largely failed. The coronavirus is everywhere. And President Jair Bolsonaro's response to the hundreds of ...
Brazil is sending an aircraft to India to expedite the arrival of vaccines amid a second wave of infections following a request to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ...
The vaccinations will start Monday or Tuesday, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein tells NPR. Thirty inmates tested positive for the coronavirus in one prison on ...
Scottish fishermen are willing to sail an extra 48 hours to Denmark, where their catch can fetch twice as much after prices at home collapsed in the aftermath of ...
LONDON (AP) — British fishing communities were among the strongest supporters of Brexit. But now some say they face ruin because of new red tape imposed ...
TOKYO >> Japan expanded a coronavirus state of emergency to seven more prefectures Wednesday, affecting more than half the population amid a surge in ...
Japan's expanded state of emergency went has gone into effect as the government seeks to stop a surge of the coronavirus, though with the restrictions not ...
Japanese officials extended a coronavirus state of emergency to seven more districts on Wednesday as the country surpassed 300000 total confirmed cases.
Japan will expand its state of emergency to seven more prefectures and ban all foreign nationals from entering the country, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said ...
The Japanese government plans to expand a state of emergency it declared for the Tokyo area last week to seven more prefectures on Wednesday, media ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa should see the first COVID-19 vaccine doses in March from the global COVAX effort aimed at helping lower-income countries ...
The African Union has secured an additional 270 million Covid vaccines doses for African countries, with at least 50 million available from April to June 2021, ...
South Africa's main stock index gained 0.5% as of 9:49 a.m. in Johannesburg, heading for a *fresh* record close, as mining stocks benefited from optimism over ...
Russia's prison *service* said Thursday that top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny faces immediate arrest once he returns from Germany. Navalny, who has been ...
Russia's prison *service* says it has orders to detain Alexei Navalny, a statement made days before the opposition politician is due to return to Russia after ...
The Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has said he will return to Russia this week for what could be a dramatic homecoming following his poisoning with ...
One of President Vladimir Putin's leading critics says he's flying home to Russia on Sunday despite the risk of prison. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was ...
A proposal to grant special privileges to those who have been vaccinated is gaining traction in Europe ahead of a crunch call of the region's leaders, as a rise in ...
Plans for a vaccine passport to allow people who have had the coronavirus jab to travel freely around Europe will be hotly debated by EU leaders as they meet ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's government has extended nationwide lockdown measures indefinitely but says retail stores and malls will reopen Monday ...
Greece's prime minister says the country's retail sector might begin to gradually reopen next week, if the scientists advising the government on the coronavirus ...
Germany has too many loopholes in its coronavirus lockdown rules, the head of the country's disease control agency said as figures published Thursday ...
A leading Chinese Covid-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech was just 50.38% effective in late-stage trials in Brazil, significantly lower than earlier results ...
Laborers stop pruning the vines as the light fades at about 4:30 p.m., leaving them 90 minutes to come in from the cold, change out of their work clothes, hop in ...
Some EU nations are receiving fewer than expected doses of coronavirus vaccines as U.S. pharmaceutical firm Pfizer slows shipments, while Turkey and China ...
The Philippines' Food and Drug Administration has authorised for emergency use the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the first to be ...
The Philippines said it detected in a passenger who arrived from the United Arab Emirates the first case of the more contagious Covid-19 strain that recently ...
As India prepares to begin an ambitious coronavirus vaccination program this weekend, more than 700,000 Hindu pilgrims gathered to take a dip in the Ganges ...
Up to a million Hindu pilgrims have gathered on the banks of the River Ganges in northern India, marking the start of a major religious festival that is taking place ...
Lebanese authorities began enforcing an 11-day national shutdown and round the clock curfew Thursday, hoping to limit the sharp surge in coronavirus ...
MADRID — Madrid's mayor on Thursday called on the central government to declare Spain's capital a disaster zone, warning that the damage caused by last ...
Despite the daily trials her family has to endure – a pandemic, three months with no electricity and now days without running water since Storm Filomena froze ...
In the village of Valdemorillo, Spain, 40 kilometers from Madrid, the Spanish military continues to clear snow from roadways on Jan. 15. The region was ...
MADRID (AP) — As record snowfall and sub-freezing temperatures enveloped much of normally temperate Spain, few residents suffered as severely as the ...
The woman behind Denmark's toughest immigration laws will be the country's first politician to defend herself in an impeachment trial in almost three decades, ...
Jose Sibrian, 43, was shot and killed by his son on Jan. 5, according to police. A detective said the teen admitted to the killing during an interview.
A huge fire swept through Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh early Thursday, the United Nations said, destroying homes belonging to thousands ...
Governor Greg Gianforte on Wednesday issued a new directive to replace several directives related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The governor's directive repeals ...
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte will remove restrictions on capacity and hours of operation at bars, restaurants, casinos, breweries, distilleries and other ...
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte announced he is removing existing health mandates issued by his predecessor. Gianforte, a Republican, said Wednesday that the ...
A realistic cave painting of a wild pig, including its warts, may be the oldest known art depicting the real world. The purple pig was found on the walls of the ...
