Russia hit a record daily high of over 25,000 coronavirus cases on Monday as government resists uniform nationwide restrictions. As many as 25,173 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the last 24 hours, taking the tally to over 2.11 million, health authorities announced. Recoveries...

Britain’s AstraZeneca said on Monday its vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be around 90% effective without any serious side effects, giving the world another important tool to halt the COVID-19 pandemic. The vaccine developed by Oxford University was 90% effective in preventing...

Yemen's Houthi rebels said they struck a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jeddah on Monday with a new cruise missile, just hours after the kingdom finished hosting its virtual Group of 20 leaders summit. The kingdom did not immediately acknowledge any attack as videos on social media...

No country has been spared the coronavirus epidemic, nor the scourge of domestic violence, which has surged during lockdowns as the day marking such violence approaches on Wednesday. From a spike in rapes in Nigeria and South Africa, increased numbers of women missing in Peru, higher...