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The Imperial College London and Ipsos MORI Realtime Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) study into the country's COVID19 infections, show that infections increased by 50 per cent from early December 2020, with 1 in 63 people infected.

Russian police on Thursday detained Lyubov Sobol, an ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, her lawyer said, after she urged Navalny's supporters to take to the streets on Saturday to call for his release.

Beirut university student Mohammad El Sahily was close to graduating in computer science, but uncertainty now clouds his future following a plunge in the Lebanese pound that has left him and thousands like him unable to pay their tuition fees.

Overwhelmed by record numbers of COVID19 patients, doctors in Portuguese hospitals say they are exhausted and in despair.

The United States under President Joe Biden intends to join the COVAX vaccine facility that aims to deliver coronavirus vaccines to poor countries, his chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, told the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday.

A conscript was sentenced to 241/2 years in prison by a Russian court on Thursday for killing eight people at a military base in 2019, a crime he said was provoked by bullying, the TASS news agency reported.

Former President Donald Trump had said the deal could be economically detrimental and cost 2.5 million Americans their jobs by 2025. The Paris accord committed the US and 187 other countries to keep rising global temperatures below 2C above pre-industrial...

If you blinked, you might have missed it. But that line -- and the sentiment behind it -- functions not only as a rejection of the political worldview of his predecessor in office but also as the core belief that underpins Biden's entire theory of the pre...

European Union leaders will on Thursday seek to address the coronavirus pandemic's mounting challenges, from containing more infectious variants to the threat of border closures and the slow rollout of vaccines across the bloc.

Rescue teams on Wednesday drilled new holes down a gold mine in China's Shandong province, searching for more survivors after an explosion 10 days ago and preparing an escape passage for a group known to still be alive, state media reported.

The reminders of the siege were everywhere.

The coronavirus pandemic and the risk of civil unrest made the inauguration of the 46th president one of the most unusual in American history.

President Joe Biden will attempt to jumpstart the federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic with a string of immediate executive orders on Wednesday after his inauguration to lead a country reeling from its worst public health crisis in mo...

Argentina has approved use of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccination for people over the age of 60, the government of the South American country announced in a statement on Wednesday.

At least two people died and eight were injured on Wednesday when a building in central Madrid belonging to the Catholic Church was blown apart by an explosion, local authorities said.

At least two people died and several were injured when a building in a central Madrid belonging to the Catholic Church collapsed on Wednesday after an explosion, Mayor Jose Luis MartinezAlmeida told reporters.