ANKARA – The majority of the Olympic village residents in Japan will be vaccinated against the coronavirus ahead of next month’s Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, local media...
UNITED NATIONS – An annual report of the UN secretary-general on children and armed conflict verified 26,425 grave violations against children in 2020. Of the violations, 23,946...
Traffic is so ubiquitous in U.S. cities that until recently, imagining urban life without it meant looking to other nations for examples. Then, in 2020, COVID-19...
When Iranians elect a new leader, the world watches. So the election of Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline right-winger, to replace the more centrist Hassan Rouhani, is...
New Zealand’s medicines regulator Medsafe has granted provisional approval of the Pfizer vaccine for youth aged 12 to 15, and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern expects cabinet...
It wasn’t a dramatic expansion of religious rights – not yet. But the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of a Catholic adoption agency that had been...
Lawmakers in the nation’s capital have an opportunity to fix a longstanding problem with the landmark legislation to prevent domestic violence: its failure to protect Indigenous...
SAO PAULO – Brazil reached a grim milestone of half a million Covid-19 deaths on Saturday, the heath minister announced. Marcelo Queiroga said on Twitter that he...
MOSCOW – Moscow’s Covid-19 cases surged by 51,853 this week, having reached a record high since the start of the pandemic, according to TASS estimates based on...
LONDON – The United Kingdom has recorded more than 10,000 daily cases for the third day in a row, with a top scientist warning that the...