NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers have called for a national strike on Monday, the second in a week, to press for the quashing of three new…
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s government has presented a Supreme Court justice with a coronavirus immunization plan that provides initially for only enough shots for about a quarter of the population…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates said Wednesday a Chinese coronavirus vaccine tested in the federation of sheikhdoms is 86% effective, in a statement that provided few details…
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Frankfurt(AFP): The European Central Bank is set to unleash more stimulus for the eurozone at its last meeting of the year on Thursday, as the region’s battered economy grapples with a second…
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A Vienna court on Friday sentenced a flamboyant, jet-setting former Austrian finance minister to eight years in prison in the country’s biggest corruption trial since World War II. Karl-Heinz Grasser was found…
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Brazil’s economy rebounded by 7.7 per cent in the third quarter compared with the second, coming out of the recession it had been briefly plunged into by the coronavirus pandemic, the statistics…
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A sexual harassment case against a powerful Chinese media figure begins in Beijing on Wednesday, with his accuser calling it a major moment in the country’s still-young #MeToo movement. Zhou Xiaoxuan, now…
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Petrol bombs were hurled at a Hong Kong police recreation club in the early hours of Tuesday, a rare attack on a police facility since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law.…
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One is staying put at city hall, the other will make his return there, where he was the self-described “happiest man in the world.” Brazil’s two biggest cities, Sao Paulo and Rio…
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A shack covered by plastic in Sudan’s Hamdayit refugee centre has become a source of smiles, sighs and tears for Ethiopian refugees, thanks to a hotline set up to trace relatives. Like…
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