Compared to the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 was "undoubtedly worse" for the Americas, where infections and deaths tripled, the top UN health official there reported on Wednesday.
Dr. Carissa Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health (...)
Lack of opportunities, gangs, organized crime, the ravages of the pandemic and climate change, have triggered the displacement of nearly one million people in Mexico and Central America in recent years.
To deal with the problem more effectively, the (...)
One meal a day, no shelter, and no drinking water are only some of the difficult living conditions that indigenous Warao families from Venezuela are facing in remote locations across Guyana, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has warned.
More (...)
The remaining seven countries on England's COVID-19 travel red list will be removed from next Monday, BBC reported.
Fully-vaccinated arrivals from Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Panama, Haiti and Venezuela will no longer have to (...)
Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from (...)
Bahrain has updated travel measures related to COVID-19 curbs, removing 11 more countries from its red list.
The kingdom's civil aviation authorities said that as of October 10, South Africa, Namibia, Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, (...)
Riyadh Airports Company (RAC), the operator of King Khalid International Airport (KKIA) in the capital Riyadh, announced today that it has become a member of the Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific.
ACI is the international body (...)
Riyadh Airports Company (RAC), the operator of King Khalid International Airport (KKIA) in the Saudi capital Riyadh, announced today that it has become a member of the Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific.
ACI is the international body (...)
The offshore dealings and hidden assets of some of the world's richest and most powerful people have been revealed, including those of world leaders, politicians, billionaires, celebrities and drug dealers.
In a huge data leak being dubbed the (...)
The United Nations children's agency has asked authorities to reopen schools in countries where millions of students are still not allowed to return to classrooms following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eighteen months into the pandemic, schools for nearly (...)
The European Union Wednesday said it has accepted COVID-19 certificates from seven more non-EU countries as equivalent to the EU Digital COVID Certificate.
The seven countries are Albania, Andorra, Faroe Islands, Israel, Monaco, Morocco and Panama, (...)
At least 304 people were killed and hundreds were injured and missing after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday.
The epicenter of the quake was about 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the US Geological (...)
The huge container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March has finally reached its intended port in Europe.
The Ever Given sailed into the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands on Thursday to begin unloading its cargo, months later than originally (...)
بات الدولي القطري، المعز علي، أول لاعب في تاريخ كرة القدم يسجل في 3 بطولات قارية مختلفة، بعد إحرازه هدفا في مواجهة منتخب بلاده ضد بنما، ضمن بطولة الكأس الذهبية.
وأحرز المعز علي هدفه التاريخي في اللقاء الذي أقيم فجر اليوم الأربعاء وانتهى بالتعادل (...)
The United States on Monday announced a plan to distribute the remaining 55 million of the 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that President Joe Biden has pledged to allocate by the end of this month.
For all 80 million doses the administration has (...)
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF — Russia's sovereign wealth fund) announced that the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey has registered the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus in the country.
The vaccine has been (...)
The United Kingdom has added India to its updated travel "red list" to protect the country against a new variant of coronavirus (COVID-19) and against other existing variants, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday.
As part of the move, (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes today.
Secretary Blinken emphasized shared interests in working with Panama to enhance regional stability, prosperity, and security, and play a leadership role (...)
JEDDAH — The United Kingdom on Friday added Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan, and the Philippines to its travel "red list" as travelers from Saudi Arabia continue to have unrestricted entry into the country.
The updated "red list," which will come into (...)
A massive cargo ship turned sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking traffic in a crucial East-West waterway for global shipping, according to satellite data accessed on Wednesday.
Traffic on the narrow waterway dividing continental Africa from the (...)
More than 168 million schoolchildren globally missed out on learning in class, as schools in some 14 countries remained largely shut for almost an entire year due to coronavirus-related lockdowns, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported on (...)
Authorities in Germany and Belgium seized more than 23,000 kilograms (50,700 pounds) of cocaine, worth billions of dollars, in an international operation that resulted in one arrest, officials said on Wednesday, calling it the largest amount of (...)
As the climate is changing, the Arctic is warming four times faster than global averages, causing the circumpolar Jetstream to weaken and move southwards.
Consequently, freezing cold air masses — known as the Polar Vortex — descend to more densely (...)
The mullah regime is clamoring to take revenge for the killing of the bloodthirsty Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US missile strike near Baghdad airport a year ago.
Soleimani was the serial killer of the mullah regime, its butcher, and the (...)
Best-selling British espionage writer David Cornwell — known to the world as John le Carré — died Saturday at 89, according to his literary agent.
A statement shared on behalf of the author's family said: "It is with great sadness that we must (...)
