Greece’s center-right government has imposed a week-long ban on public protests attended by more than 100 people, angering left-wing political opponents.

Britain appears ready to order some travelers coming in from abroad to isolate in hotels in an attempt to stop the import of new virus variants.

South African president and African Union chairman Cyril Ramaphosa has called on richer nations to release surplus vaccine doses to the rest of the world.

The U.S. military is looking into using a Red Sea port in Saudi Arabia and an additional two airfields in the kingdom amid heightened tensions with Iran.

The Vatican has cleared a retired U.S. bishop of multiple allegations he sexually abused minors and teenagers, rejecting lay experts' determination that a half-dozen clai...

The European Union is warning pharmaceutical giants that have developed coronavirus vaccines with EU aid that it must get its shots on schedule.

South African police are investigating the premier of Mpumalanga province for failing to wear a mask at a public funeral.

The European Union's executive body has proposed that EU nations impose more travel restrictions to counter the worrying spread of new coronavirus variants.

Poland's president says he understands the “despair” of people opening their businesses in defiance of the anti-COVID-19 lockdown to survive, but says they must keep to g...

The European Union has lashed out Monday at pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to guarantee coronavirus vaccines without v...

Thousands of elderly Germans are facing online error messages and jammed-up hotlines as technical problems marred the start of the coronavirus vaccine campaign for over-8...

A UN report says that four times as many jobs were lost last year due to the coronavirus pandemic as during the worst part of the global financial crisis in 2009.

Four Zimbabwean Cabinet ministers have died of COVID-19, three within the past two weeks, highlighting the resurgence of the disease that is sweeping through this souther...

Ailing Pope Francis, who is making limited public appearances due to persistent pain, drew attention to the plight of homeless people in winter, including a Nigerian man ...

A new 5,000-lira bank note is going into circulation in Syria as the country reels from 10 years of conflict and a crippling economic crisis.

Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators have clashed with Israeli police in two major cities as authorities continue to struggle to enforce coronavirus restrictions in the country’s...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will be closing its international airport to nearly all flights as the government races to bring a raging coronavirus outbre...

Rioters have set blazes in the center of the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven and pelted police with rocks at a banned demonstration against coronavirus lockdown measures...

Britain is expanding a coronavirus vaccination program that has seen almost 6 million people get the first of two doses — even as the country’s death toll in the pandemic...

The center-right incumbent candidate has won a resounding victory in Portugal’s presidential election.

Hong Kong’s government on Monday morning ended an unprecedented lockdown after testing thousands of residents living in an area that had reported an increasing number of ...

New Zealand has reported its first coronavirus case outside of a quarantine facility in more than two months, although there was no immediate evidence the virus was sprea...

Rescuers in northern China have brought 11 workers safely to the surface two weeks after they were trapped by an explosion in a gold mine.

Amid a national French reckoning with sexual abuse of children by family members, President Emmanuel Macron has told victims: “We believe you.