The US will lift travel restrictions to eight southern African countries on New Year’s Eve, the White House announced Friday. The restrictions, imposed last month, were...
At least three major airlines have reported canceling dozens of flights as illnesses largely tied to the omicron variant of COVID-19 take a toll on flight...
Morocco has extended a halt on international passenger flights on Friday until the end of January as it tries to rein in surging cases of the...
A military exercise launched earlier this week by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) was a warning to Israel, the head of the IRGC said on Friday, adding...
The United Arab Emirates has recorded another steep incline of new COVID-19 cases for another consecutive day. The country’s Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced...
France on Friday recommended that adults receive a COVID-19 booster vaccination three months after their initial jabs, reducing the current guideline of five months to better...
At least 32 people died when a packed ferry caught fire in southern Bangladesh on Friday, police said, in the latest maritime tragedy to hit the...
The United Nations kicked off a campaign Friday to raise $107.2 million in aid for victims of Typhoon Rai, which ravaged the Philippines last week. The...
Dozens of officials have been punished over a virus outbreak in the locked-down city of Xi’an, China’s disciplinary body said Friday — the latest state reprimands...
A fire in the intensive care unit of a COVID-19 hospital killed two people on Friday in Russia’s southern city of Astrakhan, the TASS news agency...