Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before they head back to school in the fall. Most COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out worldwide are for adults, who are at...

When Fatima and her family the fled violent militias ruling over their hometown of Mosul, Iraq, in early 2018, they imagined they were heading away, not towards, mortal danger. That March, Fatima, 28, her husband and two children were smuggled across the northeastern Syrian border....

A boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants capsized off Libya's coast, drowning two women and three children, a U.N. official said Wednesday. It was the latest shipwreck involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe. Safa Msehli, spokesman for the International Organization for...

Turkey is reinstating weekend lockdowns in most of Turkey’s provinces and will also impose restrictions over the Muslim holy month of Ramadan following a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases. Virus infections in Turkey have soared less than a month after the country divided its 81...