More than 400,000 new coronavirus infections were declared across the world on Thursday, a record number, according to a tally by AFP on Friday based on data from health authorities.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was on track to achieve an unprecedented outright majority in New Zealand’s general election Saturday after campaigning on her success handling the Covid-19 pandemic. With 10
Azerbaijan has said at least 12 people have died after shelling levelled a row of homes in the city of Ganja, with 40 more wounded in a sharp escalation of
Nine people were killed and more than 30 were injured after a bus coming from Lucknow collided with another vehicle in Indina Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit district, news agency ANI reported
Eleven million girls face being unable to return to school even after coronavirus restrictions are lifted around the world, UNESCO head Audrey Azoulay said Thursday during a visit to the
The World Bank said its executive board approved $12 billion for developing countries to finance the purchase and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, tests and treatments for their citizens. The financing,
Former chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, has been freed by Indian authorities, more than a year after her detention. She was detained on August 5 last year, when
Authorities in the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao said Tuesday that they have completed coronavirus tests on more than 3 million people following the country’s first reported local outbreak
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned that his country would “fully mobilize” its nuclear force if threatened as he took center stage at a military parade that unveiled what
Myanmar is heading to polls amid fear, loathing and apathy, a hard turn from the democratic optimism that infused the 2015 polls that catapulted the National League for Democracy (NLD)