Over 1.5 million people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 with one death reported every nine seconds on a weekly average, as vaccinations are set to begin in December in a handful of developed nations. Half a million deaths occurred in just the last two months, indicating that the...

Iran said its novel coronavirus caseload surpassed one million on Thursday, as the authorities consider easing restrictions in many parts of the Middle East's hardest hit country. The Islamic republic had recorded 49,348 Covid-19 deaths and 1,003,494 infections since announcing its first...

Although Idlib should be peaceful due to a Russian-Turkish brokered ceasefire in March, the northwest Syrian province remains subject to almost daily assaults by regime artillery and Russian war planes. While the past months' bombardments have been less intense than in previous years, they...

NEW YORK (AP) — Health care workers and nursing home residents should be at the front of the line when the first coronavirus vaccine shots become available, an influential government advisory panel said Tuesday. The panel voted 13-1 to recommend those groups get priority in the first...