South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases hovered above 400 on Saturday as sporadic cluster infections showed no signs of a letup and the rising number of travelers amid warm weather is worried to spark yet another uptick in the curve, Yonhap (...)
Women in Europe should be given "greater economic independence" through equal pay, childcare support and the sharing of domestic duties to ensure that they do not fall into poverty, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human (...)
The Senate passed a $1.9-trillion COVID-19 relief package Saturday, scaling back unemployment benefits, approved by the House and narrowing the number of Americans who receive $1,400 payments in an effort to get a bill to President Joe Biden as (...)
The Japanese health minister said Sunday his ministry could approve a second COVID-19 vaccine as early as May, as the government sees inoculation as crucial to curbing infections, Kyodo News Agency reported.
"There is the possibility of giving (...)
The reopening of England's schools to all pupils on Monday will mark the first step back towards normality, and is only possible because of the efforts of the public to bring COVID-19 infection rates down, Reuters quoted British Prime Minister Boris (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff said Saturday that he was "very skeptical'' about prospects of people traveling at Easter but expected the coronavirus situation in the country to improve by the end of May.
Helge Braun told the Funke (...)
AlUla Old Town has welcomed its first visitors back after a three-year hiatus for extensive restoration and conservation in sections of the town's tightly packed stone and mudbrick buildings.
The site, one of four significant heritage sites in (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health recorded on Sunday 357 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, marking a slight drop in the number of infections.
The ministry announced four more deaths over the past 24 hours from complications caused (...)
As many as 116.7 million (116,795,137) people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 2,594,040 have died, according to a worldodometer tally. It reported that there have been 92,382,760 cases of global (...)
Backed by King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) continued to improve the electrical grid in Jafina camp in Marib Governorate, Yemen.
The IOM, through the KSrelief's support, (...)
Yasir Seaidan won the remaining two desert selective sections of a weather-modified Sharqiyah International Baja Toyota to secure a start-to-finish victory by the margin of 13min 38sec on Saturday. It was the Saudi's first ever FIA event (...)
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan secured a vote of confidence by a narrow margin during a special session of the National Assembly on Saturday, gaining 178 votes out of the 342 lawmakers, six more than the minimum required to save his (...)
RIYADH — Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin arrived in Jeddah Saturday. On arrival at King Abdulaziz International Airport, he was received by Jeddah Governor Prince Mishaal Bin Majed, the Saudi Press Agency said.
The Malaysian Ministry of (...)
Pope Francis led a mass in Iraq on Saturday as part of his historic visit to the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pope reminded Iraq's Chaldean Catholics of one of the core tenets of their faith: Those who are persecuted, poor and mourn are (...)
The Saudi Motorcyclist Riyadh Al-Shammari, who was participating in the Sharqiyah International Baja Toyota in Dammam, died Saturday following an accident during the last stage of the International Rally, the Saudi Automobile and Motorcycle (...)
Jadwa Investment, one of the region's leading investment management and advisory firms, has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire The Boulevard Riyadh, a luxury retail and office complex in the north of Riyadh, for SR320 million, on behalf (...)
The success rate of global conventional oil and gas exploration has declined in recent years, but the most painful blow has been to onshore wildcat wells, a Rystad Energy analysis reveals.
In 2020, the success rate of these drilled wildcats (...)
A doctor in Benin has been telling the UN about the challenging conversations she has had with the relatives of patients who have died from COVID-19, and how she has used her long medical experience to effectively lead a team of health care (...)
Urgent action is needed to increase production of COVID-19 vaccines that will be distributed through the global initiative making these medicines accessible by all countries, the UN's top health official said on Friday.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, (...)
Hopes placed in the UN and the member states that serve on the Security Council to take action against leaders of Myanmar's military coup, are waning fast, the UN Special Envoy for the country warned on Friday.
Christine Schraner Burgener welcomed (...)
Countries must find the political will to prevent the killings of human rights defenders, hundreds of whom are murdered every year, a UN independent expert said on Friday in calling for greater protection for these activists.
Mary Lawlor, special (...)
The proportion of women parliamentarians worldwide reached more than 25 percent last year — a historic first but still far from gender parity, UN partner the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) announced on Friday ahead of International Women's Day on (...)
More than 1,600 people have received Ebola virus vaccinations in Guinea where four have died in a new outbreak, but more lifesaving jabs will be needed to contain the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
To date, 18 Ebola (...)
Global Village, the UAE and wider region's leading multicultural family destination for culture, shopping, and entertainment, has moved closer to its target of 25 Guinness World Records titles in honor of its Silver Jubilee anniversary.
The Global (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, who is visiting Sudan for the first time, following the formation of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council in August 2019 was received by the head of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council (...)
