BRUSSELS/LONDON, November 16 (Reuters): European Union diplomats warned Britain on Monday that time was fast running out for a Brexit deal, and that it may already be too late to ratify one, as negotiators
MOSCOW, November 16 (Reuters): Russia reported a record 22,778 new daily coronavirus cases on Monday as the authorities in Moscow turned to a temporary hospital built inside an ice rink to handle the influ
ROME, November 16 (Reuters): Sirio Persichetti can't speak and can't feed himself but the seven-year-old has taken the social media world by storm with his daily antics, proving that a disability i
AMMAN, November 16 (Reuters): Syria's long-time foreign minister Walid al-Moalem, an unyielding defender of Syrian President Bashar al Assad's bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters that sparked a d
VATICAN CITY, November 16 (Reuters): During his 27-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II canonised so many people that some dubbed the Vatican "the saint factory".
Now, the Polish pope's own
WILMINGTON, Del./WASHINGTON, November 16 (Reuters): President-elect Joe Biden on Monday will focus on reviving a pandemic-battered U.S. economy as he prepares to take office, as outgoing President Donald T
SYDNEY, November 16 (Reuters): Countries across the Asia-Pacific region reported record new coronavirus numbers and fresh outbreaks on Monday, with Japan facing mounting pressure to reimpose a state o
WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 16 (IANS): America's top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci has urged citizens not to abandon masks and social distancing even after a vaccine against the novel coronavirus was av
CHISINAU, November 16 (Reuters): Opposition candidate Maia Sandu won presidential election run-off in Moldova, defeating pro-Moscow incumbent Igor Dodon, preliminary results from the central election
Washington, November 16 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 54.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1,316,130, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of M
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., November 16 (Reuters): Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA's first full-fledged mission s
(Reuters): US President Donald Trump's campaign on Sunday dropped a major part of a lawsuit it brought seeking to halt Pennsylvania from certifying its results in the presidential election, narrow
SEOUL, November 16 (Reuters): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered a tightening of state emergency anti-coronavirus systems in the face of the worldwide pandemic, as he presided over a meeting of t
DUBAI, November 15 (Reuters): Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday declared "the general mobilisation of the nation and the government" to confront the third wave of the coronavirus af
WASHINGTON, November 15 (Reuters): President Donald Trump backtracked after appearing on Sunday to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 election, saying he conceded "nothing&qu
LONDON, NOVEMBER 15 (IANS): Normalcy from the Covid era can only be expected by next year's winter as any Covid vaccine will take to show its effect and will not immediately reduce the number of infections,
SZIRAK, Hungary, November 15 (Reuters): In an unassuming house in rolling hills east of the Hungarian capital, a small family firm is helping oil the wheels of the world's big pharmaceutical companies
YANGON, NOVEMBER 15 (IANS): Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, headed by incumbent State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, has won 920 seats, which is an absolute majority in the Novembe
BUCHAREST, November 15 (Reuters): Romanian officials will check all intensive care units after a fire killed 10 people at a hospital treating coronavirus patients, the government said on Sunday.
The fir
WASHINGTON, November 15 (Reuters): President Donald Trump appeared on Sunday to publicly acknowledge for the first time that his Democratic rival Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, but re