More than nine million people have now been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, according to an AFP tally drawing on official sources, as of Monday. More than half of the 9,000,091 cases are in Europe and the United States: Europe having recorded 2,537,451 and the United States...

Finland's Nokia Oyj plans to cut 1,233 jobs at its French subsidiary Alcatel-Lucent International, equivalent to a third of the unit's workforce, the group said on Monday, confirming an earlier Reuters report. The announcement has political resonance in France as Nokia bought the unit five...

The novel coronavirus pandemic is still accelerating and its effects will be felt for decades, the World Health Organization's director-general told an online conference Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual health forum organized by Dubai authorities that the greatest threat...

A Russian court on Monday sentenced two leftist activists to long prison terms on controversial terror charges in a case that has sparked widespread criticism. Viktor Filinkov, 25, and Yuli Boyarshinov, 28, were accused of belonging to the "Network" terrorist group, which prosecutors said...