India has firmly backed the ASEAN summit’s latest initiatives to help resolve Myanmar's political crisis.

Germany will send oxygen and medical aid to India in the coming days to help it tackle its Covid-19 crisis, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Monday.

More than one billion doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered worldwide, less than five months after the first mass inoculation programmes began to be rolled out, according to an AFP tally.

Yemen’s Huthi rebels have made important gains in the battle for the government’s last northern stronghold, advancing close to the centre of Marib city despite heavy casualties, military sources said yesterday.

A fire sparked by an oxygen tank explosion killed at least 82 people and injured 110 at a hospital in Baghdad that had been equipped to house Covid-19 patients, an Interior Ministry spokesman said yesterday.

Indian coronavirus patient Vidhya Devi, 70, should have been in emergency care at a New Delhi hospital, but instead she lay on the backseat of a car outside a Sikh temple, battling for breath, as she was connected to an oxygen tank on the street.

Myanmar’s pro-democracy activists yesterday sharply criticised an agreement between the country’s junta chief and Southeast Asian leaders to end the nation’s violent post-coup crisis and vowed to continue their protest campaign.

Dozens of world leaders met online for a two-day virtual summit that started Thursday on reducing climate change hosted by US President Joe Biden.

A Spanish man with COVID-19 symptoms who coughed on work colleagues and told them “I’m going to give you all the coronavirus” has been charged with intentionally causing injury after allegedly infecting 22 people.

US President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the 1915 massacres and forced deportation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a move that infuriated Turkey and further strained frayed ties between the two NATO allies.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan accompanied 101-year-old Dabirul Islam Choudhury OBE in his bid to lead a global challenge named ‘Walk with Dabirul’ to complete 1.5 million steps.

US lawmakers and nonprofit groups on Friday heaped pressure on the Biden administration to back a temporary patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines to

Chilean investigators testing the AstraZeneca-Oxford University Covid-19 vaccination in 2,200 people found no instances of blood clots among

Younger Brazilians are increasingly being affected by Covid-19, with those in their 20s showing the greatest increase in deaths so far this year,

French investigators were yesterday questioning three people linked to a Tunisian man who stabbed a police employee to death near Paris in a

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least 36 rockets into Israel yesterday drawing retaliatory air strikes, the Israeli military said, after nightly

Search teams have recovered debris believed to be from an Indonesian submarine missing for days in the Bali Sea, defence officials said yesterday, as hopes dwindled for the 53 crew who were expected to have run out of oxygen in the early hours.

As day two of the climate summit hosted by United States President Joe Biden got under way, a question raised by special envoy John Kerry about

US President Joe Biden yesterday said the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey and is set to further strain frayed ties between the two Nato allies.

Over 100 Palestinians and 20 Israeli police were wounded in overnight clashes in annexed east Jerusalem, authorities said yesterday, as tensions mount over a ban on gatherings and videos of attacks on youths.