ZURICH, November 12 (Reuters): This week has seen a flurry of good news from COVID-19 vaccine developers, with Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE trumpeting early data indicating their mRNA candidate is more than
THESSALONIKI, November 12 (Reuters): A surge in coronavirus infections in Greece's northern city of Thessaloniki is pushing the hospital system to its limits, doctors at a medical facility say, as the
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U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Thursday vaccine developers should push to make billions of their COVID-19 vaccines to ensure access to all parts of the world, instead of focusin
PARIS/BERLIN, November 12 (Reuters): European officials warned against COVID-19 complacency on Thursday and said measures to control a surge in infections as winter approaches must remain in force despite
YANGON, November 12 (Reuters): Yarzar Tun's whole family backed Myanmar's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in the landslide 2015 election that swept her to power. As fighting this year in western Ra
LONDON, November 12 (Reuters): Britain has given the green light to a $2.2 billion tunnel under Stonehenge aimed at hiding a nearby main road that has long blighted the mysterious prehistoric circle of sto
LONDON, November 12 (Reuters): Conspiracy theories and misinformation fuel mistrust in vaccines and could push levels that potential COVID-19 vaccines are taken in the United States and Britain below the r
VATICAN CITY, November 12 (Reuters): Pope Francis is offering free coronavirus tests for Rome's poor and homeless as part of the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of the Poor activities, the V
JERUSALEM, November 12 (Reuters): A helicopter with the U.S.-led Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in the Egyptian Sinai crashed on Thursday near the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, killing seven mem
ACCRA, November 12 (Reuters): Jerry Rawlings, who seized power twice in military coups but is now credited as a driving force behind Ghana's emergence as a stable democracy, died on Thursday at th
NAPLES, Italy, November 12 (Reuters): The health crisis in Italy's third largest city Naples is out of control, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Thursday, after a video was posted on social media
AMSTERDAM, November 12 (Reuters): Unidentified assailants sprayed the embassy of Saudi Arabia in the Netherlands with gunfire before dawn on Thursday, police said. No one was hurt in the incident.
BANGKOK, November 12 (Reuters): Thailand has seized almost $1 billion worth of contraband ketamine, most of it probably destined for Europe, Japan or Korea, the Thai Narcotics Suppression Bureau said on Th
BEIJING, November 12 (Reuters): China is facing an increased risk of local transmission of the new coronavirus in the winter due to imported cases as the spread of the global pandemic accelerates, a senior
LONDON, November 12 (Reuters): Britain on Thursday said China had broken its main bilateral treaty on Hong Kong by imposing new rules to disqualify elected legislators in the former British colony, caution
LONDON, November 12 (Reuters): So why did I volunteer to be injected with an experimental vaccine for COVID-19? That's what some of my friends wanted to know when I told them what I was doing.
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LONDON, November 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Being stared at, photographed in secret, and even having a bottle thrown at you - all because you went for a quiet walk through the British countryside.
BISHKEK, November 12 (Reuters): Kyrgyz Prime Minister Sadyr Japarov said on Thursday he would step down as acting president of the Central Asian nation in the coming days in order to run in the January 10
PARIS, November 12 (Reuters): People are becoming weary of the coronavirus pandemic but should remain vigilant and continue to take precautions while the world awaits a vaccine, World Health Organization c
ADDIS ABABA, November 12 (Reuters): Ethiopia's military has defeated local forces in the west of Tigray state, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday, accusing his foes of atrocities during a week