Vulnerable Venezuelan migrants and refugees who have been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 health and socio-economic crisis, urgently need greater support from the international community, UN humanitarians said on Friday, ahead of a donor (...)
NEW YORK — The United Arab Emirates was elected on Friday to serve on the United Nations Security Council alongside Albania, Brazil, Gabon, and Ghana for the term 2022-2023.
Each candidate needed two-thirds of the votes in the 193-nation UN General (...)
India reported on Tuesday a daily rise in new coronavirus infections of 86,498 cases over the past 24 hours, the lowest in 66 days, while death rose by 2,123.
The South Asian nation's tally of infections now stands at 29 million, while the death (...)
India's COVID-19 caseload climbed by 86,498 over the past day, reaching a total of 28,996,473, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry reported on its website on Tuesday, according to TASS News Agency.
The total COVID-19 death toll rose by 2,123 over (...)
Brazil has had 39,637 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 873 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Sunday. The numbers reflect a weekend drop in registered cases and deaths. On a rolling seven-day (...)
JEDDAH — Fully vaccinated travelers from Saudi Arabia will no longer have to go into quarantine upon their arrival in France, according to new rules unveiled on Friday by the French government.
Welcoming travelers from Saudi Arabia to his country, (...)
Global food prices rose in May at their fastest monthly rate in more than a decade, even as world cereal production is on course to reach a new record high, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) reported on Friday.
The (...)
Oman has relaxed coronavirus restrictions, allowing mosques to reopen and businesses to operate during the night, the Oman News Agency reported on Wednesday.
The supreme committee tasked with tackling developments resulting from the coronavirus (...)
Brazil registered 860 COVID-19 deaths on Monday and 30,434 new cases, according to data released by the nation's Health Ministry.
The South American country has now registered 462,791 total coronavirus deaths and 16,545,554 total confirmed cases, (...)
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated again on Saturday in several Brazilian cities against President Jair Bolsonaro and his contested management of the pandemic.
Brazil is the world's second worst-hit country with more than 461,000 deaths (...)
A newly-discovered variant of coronavirus has been discovered in Vietnam, the country's health minister announced on Saturday. Nguyen Thanh Long said the new strain appears to be a hybrid form of the variants that emerged in India and the United (...)
India reported 196,427 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the lowest single-day rise in cases since April 14, according to a CNN tally of figures from the Indian Ministry of Health.
This marks a decline from the first week of May when the country was (...)
India reported that the death toll of COVID-19 exceeded 300,000, making the country the third in the world, after the United States and Brazil, in term of death toll from the pandemic.
The Indian Ministry of Health stated that the number of cases in (...)
The deadly increase in COVID-19 cases in India could potentially occur elsewhere if vulnerable countries do not have access to vaccines, the head of the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, warned on Monday in a bid to get richer nations to share their (...)
Brazil recorded 67,009 additional confirmed cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 2,087 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said, according to Reuters.
Brazil has registered nearly 15.6 million cases since the pandemic began, (...)
Turkey's tourism minister is facing calls to resign after public criticism of an official video promoting tourism that includes workers wearing "Enjoy, I'm vaccinated" face masks.
The video was released by the government-linked Go Turkiye travel (...)
Portugal and the Netherlands are the latest European countries to ease travel restrictions as COVID infections recede and the summer season approaches.
Dutch citizens and residents can, from Saturday, visit Portugal, Malta, Ireland, Thailand, (...)
Brazil recorded 74,592 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, along with 2,383 deaths.
Brazilian Ministry of Health indicated that the total number of confirmed infections since the start of the pandemic is 15.4 million, while the official number of (...)
SITA on May 10 celebrated the 25th anniversary of its border management business, a journey that started in 1996 in readiness for the 2000 Olympics Games in Sydney. A quarter of a century on, SITA's border solutions are used by over 60 governments (...)
COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna appear to be effective against the new Indian strain, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Wednesday.
Data reviewed by the European regulator on the efficacy of mRNA vaccines (...)
India has documented 348,421 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, taking the total number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic in the country to 23,340,938, TASS News Agency reported.
According to the Ministry of Health (...)
The UN's human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday called for an independent, thorough and impartial investigation into a major police operation in a favela in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, in which at least 25 were reportedly killed, including (...)
A sure sign of spring in northern Europe is the arrival of the Arctic tern bird, but ahead of the UN's World Migratory Bird Day experts fear the warming of the oceans in its nesting grounds in the northern Atlantic is threatening its very (...)
WITH a mixed feeling of hope and anxiety, the world is looking forward to the gradual reopening of international borders, allowing freedom of travel, movement and tourism in different countries and continents. This comes after a spike in the overall (...)
As many as 357,229 coronavirus cases were recorded in India in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 20,282,833, according to the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
India's coronavirus death toll increased by 3,449 to 222,408 in the (...)
