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LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a strict new national lockdown Monday as Britain’s desperate race to vaccinate its population risked being overtaken by a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus that was on track to…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Sunday announced the reopening of borders and the resumption of international flights after a two-week suspension aimed to stem the spread of a new Covid-19 strain. The government ordered the lifting of…

SYDNEY: The world began ushering in the New Year Thursday, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-ridden 2020. After a grinding year that has seen at least 1.7 million people…

BEIJING: China has given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm. The vaccine is the first one approved for general use in China. Chen Shifei, the deputy commissioner of China's Medical Production…

PARIS: French health authorities have confirmed the country's first case of the virus variant that prompted strict new lockdown measures in Britain and global travel restrictions. A French man living in England arrived in France on Dec.…

Lying in a hospital bed, the black patient gazed into her phone and, with a strained voice, complained of an experience common among black people in America. Susan Moore, the patient, said the white doctor at the hospital in Indianapolis…

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday blamed his Covid-19 on a combination of negligence and bad luck, urging his compatriots to stay safe as critics called out slip-ups in his behavior to prevent infection, from a…

WASHINGTON: The US Food and Drug Administration's advisory panel, comprising external experts, has given an emergency use approval to Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, making it the second drug after Pfizer to receive such an authorisation in…