Europe

GENEVA: Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday agreed by consensus to appoint Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former finance minister of Nigeria, as...

Paris: France is preparing regional health agencies and hospitals to enter "crisis organisation" to deal with a possible surge in infections from the new...

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under mounting pressure to lift all COVID-19 lockdowns in two and a half months as lockdown-sceptic Tories...

Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi was sworn in on Saturday as Italy's new prime minister.

Questions — and criticism — faced the European Commission head on Wednesday as she explained the bloc's faltering vaccine rollout to the European...

Washington: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday (local time) announced that coronavirus variant B.1.1.7, which was first identified in the United...

Investigators on Tuesday said they were still trying to find the animal vector through which the COVID-19 virus was transmitted to humans.

LONDON: The 100-year-old British army veteran Captain Tom Moore, who raised millions of pounds to help Britain's health service in fighting the COVID-19...

Geneva [Switzerland]: The global decrease in the number of new emerging cases of COVID-19 suggests that the virus can be controlled regardless of its...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen defended the EU's vaccination record on Sunday and doubled down on ambitious inoculation targets.