The World Health Organization and partners said Friday that the Covax facility, created to ensure equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines worldwide, expected to begin delivering jabs early next year. Announcing the agency had secured nearly two billion doses of vaccine candidates, the WHO...

Voicing disappointment in the Supreme Court, US President Donald Trump said the nine justices should have heard his legal challenges to the Nov. 3 victory of President-elect Joe Biden.  "I am very disappointed in the United States Supreme Court, and so is our great country!" Trump...

South Korea reported 1,062 new coronavirus cases on Friday, its second-highest ever daily tally, as the government warned businesses it was unacceptable for them to try to dodge shut-down orders by tricking the system. The rash of new cases has shaken a country that has for months been held...

The top US military officer has pressed Afghanistan's Taliban to reduce violence in a rare meeting as outgoing President Donald Trump seeks to hasten the end of the nearly 20-year war. General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met separately with Taliban...