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...

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...

Action Group for Palestinians of Syria has recorded the death of 252 Palestinian refugee children in Syria due to war-related incidents.  The list of victims includes 70 children who died due to the blockade imposed by the Syrian government forces and its armed allies on Yarmouk...

The first Americans could receive a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Dec. 11, the chief scientific adviser for the U.S. government's vaccine program said on Sunday. "Within 24 hours from the approval, the vaccine will be moving and located in the areas where each state will have told us where...