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PARIS: People in France aged over 65 with existing health problems can be given the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, France's health minister said on Monday, departing from Paris's earlier stance that the vaccine should be for under-65s…

The assembly of Myanmar’s modern surveillance State has depended partly on patrons like China and Russia that have few qualms about equipping authoritarians During a half century…

The 66-year-old, who was president from 2007 to 2012, was convicted of trying to bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated…

The variant that emerged in northern Brazil has been detected in six people in the UK, one of whom cannot be located after they failed to fill in their contact details on a form after taking a coronavirus test…

NEW YORK: Before a late night rehearsal in December, Terrence Floyd couldn't remember the last time he squatted on a drum throne, sticks in hand and ready to perform. Surely, he said, it had not happened since his brother, George Floyd,…

These women are part of a new generation of talented Iraqi women who are testing the limits imposed by their conservative communities. Iraq: It’s nearly dawn and Zainab Amjad has…

LONDON: Health officials in Britain have identified six cases of a highly contagious coronavirus strain first identified in the Brazilian city of Manaus -- including one in a person who has not been traced. Scientists say the variant is…

Collectors Cherye R and James F Pierce have given the museum more than 260 important photographs and have further promised another 300 works in the future.…

WILIMINGTON: US President Joe Biden is planning a virtual meeting on Monday with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador — a chance for the pair to talk more fully about migration, confronting the coronavirus and cooperating on…

SANAA: Unable to find work, Ahmed Farea has sold everything including his wife's gold to feed and house two young daughters in one small room. Elsewhere in Yemen's capital Sanaa, widow Mona Muhammad has work but struggles to buy…