GENEVA – The World Health Organization is urging African countries to ramp up preparations for COVID-19 vaccination rollouts in anticipation of the imminent arrival of millions of vaccine doses on the continent. WHO reports more than 6.2 million peop…
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – After a one-year pandemic delay, the Tokyo Olympics will formally get under way Friday, with an opening ceremony that will be scaled back but still celebratory.The event will be held amid tens of thousands of empty
China is reportedly considering using a foreign vaccine as a booster shot for people who have been fully inoculated with Chinese vaccines such as Sinovac and Sinopharm. According to Caixin, a respected Chinese financial magazine, drug regulators in Chi…
A person allegedly involved in a high-profile Twitter hack in July 2020 has been arrested.The U.S. Justice Department said British citizen Joseph O’Connor, 22, was arrested Wednesday in Spain. He faces conspiracy and computer intrusion charges.O’Connor…
The yearslong effort by state and local governments in the U.S. to force the pharmaceutical industry to help pay to fix a nationwide opioid addiction and overdose crisis took a major step forward Tuesday when lawyers for local governments announced
NEW DELHI – As the tattoo needle moves on her wrist creating an image of angel’s wings and the word “Dad,” Rakshita Gupta, a designer of home furnishings, recalls what her father, who died two months ago of COVID-19, means
Residents in Britain are celebrating the end of coronavirus lockdown restrictions Monday, a day being called Freedom Day. The day ushered in an end to all social restrictions, like mask wearing and maintaining social distancing, which were imposed to f…
NEW YORK – Resurgent pandemic worries knocked stocks lower from Wall Street to Tokyo on Monday, fueled by fears that a faster-spreading variant of the virus may upend the economy’s strong recovery. The S&P 500 fell 68.67, or 1.6%, to
