Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of shelling military positions and villages Thursday, breaking a day of ceasefire in border clashes between the two former Soviet republics. Eleven Azeri soldiers and a civilian, and four Armenian servicemen, have died since Sunday in renewed...

Immunity to COVID-19 may decline over months, according to a new study by King’s College University in London. The study, published on the preprint server medRXiv and yet to be peer-reviewed, found that antibodies peaked three weeks after the onset of symptoms before gradually declining...

More than 125 million people in India began a new lockdown Thursday as authorities worldwide scramble to get a handle on a surge in coronavirus cases that continues to wreak havoc from America to Asia. The number of infections worldwide hit 13.4 million and more than 581,000 deaths have...

Defense officials in Armenia and Azerbaijan said fighting on their border subsided on Wednesday after several days of deadly clashes raised fears of a major flare-up. At least 16 people on both sides were killed in three days of shelling that started Sunday between the ex-Soviet republics,...

The Trump administration hardened its efforts Wednesday to prevent the completion of new German-Russian and Turkish-Russian natural gas pipelines by warning companies involved in the projects they'll be subject to US penalties unless they halt their work. The move will likely increase...

Millions of people faced new coronavirus restrictions Wednesday as infections surged, but in one sign of hope, a US firm said it would soon start final-stage human trials for a possible vaccine. Countries around the world reimposed lockdowns and curbs to contain new outbreaks, as global...

The coronavirus pandemic is expected to severely weaken Afghanistan's economy, the World Bank said Wednesday, as donor governments struggle themselves and uncertainty over peace talks curb private investment. The World Bank said it was forecasting gross domestic product to contract between...

Tokyo is on its highest coronavirus alert level after a spike in new cases, the city's governor warned Wednesday, as experts said the rising infections were a clear "red flag". However, the move to a "red" alert does not mean the city will ask businesses to close or events to be postponed....

A key organiser of primary elections for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp said on Wednesday he was stepping down after Beijing said the vote may violate the new national security law and could amount to subversion. Former democracy lawmaker Au Nok-hin helped organise the weekend poll that saw...

A Massachusetts-based biotech company has been testing a possible vaccine against the novel coronavirus which is showing early signs of success.   Moderna Therapeutics announced an estimated start date for phase 3 trials, its final phase of testing.  The trial involved 45...

The US presidential election pits a politician who supports environmental regulation and diplomacy to tackle climate change against another determined to dismantle such policies. President Donald Trump, a Republican, has focused on dismantling former President Barack Obama's climate agenda...

Coronavirus outbreak continues to grow in Eurasia as many countries continue to confirm more cases and deaths. In Kazakhstan, the count of confirmed cases climbed to 61,755 with 1,856 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours, according to data shared by the Health Ministry. While...

The U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of expression on Monday accused the White House of mounting an “onslaught” against the media and referred to a negative “Trump effect” on global press freedom. In his last official press briefing before his six-year tenure ends later this month, David...

The new coronavirus pandemic raging around the globe will worsen if countries fail to adhere to strict healthcare precautions, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday. "Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction, the virus remains public enemy number...

At least 11 security personnel were killed Monday in an attack claimed by the Taliban on a rural office of Afghanistan's intelligence agency, officials said. The insurgents said a suicide bomber detonated a device inside a car near the National Directorate of Security (NDS) while gunmen...

Daily cases of coronavirus infection in Russia has remained above 6,000 for the third week in a row, an official report revealed on Monday. Another 6,537 infections were registered in the country over the past 24 hours, bringing the current overall count to 733,699, the country's...

US: With the United States grappling with the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world, Florida hit a grim milestone Sunday, shattering the national record for a state's largest single-day increase in positive cases. Deaths from the virus have also been rising in the US, especially in the...

Florida has registered more than 15,000 new cases of coronavirus in a day, easily breaking a record for a US state previously held by California, according to official numbers published Sunday. The total of 15,299 cases in the hard-hit southeastern state was up sharply, 47 percent above the...

The Trump administration on Sunday again pressed for full school reopenings in the fall, even as resurgent COVID-19 infections raised mounting criticism that a premature return to classes could pose a danger of greater spread of the disease. With the virus setting new records by the day in...

Arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations of launching a military offensive using artillery fire along their shared border on Sunday, with Baku reporting two troops killed. Azerbaijan's defence ministry said Armenia's "offensive" from its northern Tavush region was met with a...