World Health Organisation (WHO) Technical Advisory Group has warned that current COVID-19 vaccines may need to be updated to ensure their continued effectiveness against Omicron and...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said that he was deeply saddened by reports that more than 50 civilians were killed and injured in an airstrike in...
The president of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has issued a shoot-to-kill order against the protesters threatening his government’s survival. “I have given orders to the security forces...
Anti-vaccine campaigners who spread “mumbo jumbo” and “nonsense” on social media are completely wrong, British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said on Thursday. Speaking to broadcasters during...
German pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its U.S. partner Pfizer want to jointly develop a vaccine against shingles. Shingles, which is also known as herpes zoster, is...
Nigeria’s Amb. Isiaka Imam has assumed office as the Secretary-General of the D-8 Organisation for Economic Cooperation in Istanbul, Turkey. This is contained in a statement...
North Korea fired at least one missile towards the sea in the early hours of Wednesday, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said. They said...
Any provocation or aggression against Ukraine would have serious consequences, European Union (EU) foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, said in a message in Moscow. Borrell said...
At least six villagers were killed on Monday in an attack by al-Shabab militants at a village in Kenya’s coastal county of Lamu, local officials said....
South African Police on Monday charged a man with arson over a fire that caused extensive damage to the national parliament building in Cape Town. This...