The new type of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has been at the top of the world's agenda for the last year, has entered a new phase with the accelerated delivery of vaccines that have been approved for use...

Israel on Tuesday announced that health officials there have given the COVID-19 vaccine to four million people...

US President Joe Biden said Tuesday there will be "repercussions" for China over its human rights abuses...

French President Emmanuel Macron has delayed sending his special envoy to Lebanon in a move apparently reflecting his frustration with the top leaders’ failure to resolve their differences over the formation of a new government, an official source ...

With the evidence in hand, independent analysts are hesitant to pin the blame on any specific group for Monday’s rocket strike on Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan...

The number of patients in intensive care units, with cases related to the highly transmissible coronavirus disease, doubled during the past two weeks, daily Times of Oman reported...

President Joe Biden said he expects the COVID-19 vaccine to be widely available in the United States by the end of July and cautiously suggested the nation may return to "normal" by Christmas...

France’s National Assembly approved a controversial bill Tuesday that has been criticized for targeting Muslims...

Russian state prosecutors have demanded that opposition figure Alexei Navalny be fined for defaming a World War II veteran...

Myanmar’s military has denied that its ouster of the government and arrest of political leaders constituted a coup d'état, justifying that assertion by claiming that it plans to hold a new election and hand power to a civil gov...

The Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations (UN) have called on Ecuador to provide transparency in the country's recent presidential election, amid electoral uncertainty that has prompted a major vote recount...

Five Islamist extremists have been sentenced to death today over the brutal murder of a Bangladeshi-American blogger six years ago...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance will not pull its forces out of Afghanistan “before the time is right,” two decades after it invaded the country on the pretext of fighting terror...

Australia's medical regulator on Tuesday approved use of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University as the country plans to begin inoculating its citizens against the coronavirus next week...

A long-standing secular bastion of the country, West Bengal is one of the few states that hasn’t electorally succumbed to Hindutva...

A new coronavirus variant with a potentially worrying set of mutations has been identified in the UK with at least 32 cases so far, experts have said...

Amnesty International has called on Saudi officials to order the release of a high-ranking official of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement and his son, citing his worsening health condition and lack of access to adequate health care.....

Coronavirus variant first found in the UK has been detected in Palestine, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced on Tuesday...

Once pledging allegiance to al Qaeda, the HTS’s Mohammed al Jolani is rolling up his sleeves to fight his past and convince the world that he’s the man who can save Syria’s Idlib...

Former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt has branded the EU's vaccination efforts a 'fiasco'. Verhofstadt called on Brussels to renegotiate its 'ill-conceived' contracts with manufacturers in a video titled 'the inconvenient truth behind the va...