Prince Philip was portrayed as a modernizer, a frustrated consort and later a cranky old man who spoke his mind. But how much of this based on reality?
Meghan Markle will not attend the funeral of Prince Philip, Buckingham Palace announced on Saturday, ending speculation over whether the actress would ...
Much of St. Vincent remains covered in ash, following eruptions at the island's La Soufriere volcano. After nearly 42 years without an explosion, the volcano in ...
(Reuters) - Myanmar security forces fired rifle grenades at protesters in a town near Yangon on Friday, killing more than 80 people, the Assistance Association ...
The death toll of 82 in Bago was the biggest one-day total for a single city since March 14, when just over 100 people were killed in Yangon, the country's ...
At least 82 people were killed in one day in a crackdown by Myanmar security forces on pro-democracy protesters, according to reports Saturday from ...
The effectiveness rate of a coronavirus vaccine from Sinovac, a Chinese developer, at preventing symptomatic infections has been found to be as low as 50.4%
In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government ...
PARIS (Reuters) - France will lengthen the period between the first and second shots of mRNA anti-COVID vaccines to six weeks from four weeks as of April 14 ...
From Monday French people over the age of 55 will be eligible for Covid-19 vaccinations – ahead of schedule – as authorities race to gain ground against the ...
Vaccinations for all over-55s in France will open from Monday April 12, the health minister has said, meaning the next stage of the campaign is starting weeks ...
Airlines and concert venues are potentially mandating proof of vaccination in order to get in, which means keeping your vaccination card in safe keeping is ...
(KTVX) — Millions of vaccine shots have been given across the U.S., and as that number grows, there is the potential for researchers to learn more about how ...
With an average of about three million Americas receiving COVID-19 vaccines each day, new information has emerged as to who's most susceptible to side ...
Ireland's prime minister, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, pleaded for calm Saturday after a week of violent riots roiled Belfast, Northern Ireland — as officials raised ...
While many planned peaceful protests were cancelled as a mark of respect for the Duke of Edinburgh, there was still violence in parts of north Belfast and ...
Over the past week, the North of Ireland has seen its worst rioting in years, ostensibly over the Northern Ireland Protocol signed by the Westminster government ...
*Fresh* lockdowns and curfews were imposed on tens of millions of people from India to Argentina on Saturday, as Covid-19 infections surged again and vaccine ...
Just as we thought things were getting better, India is reeling from a huge surge in covid cases. This time, every peak that was reached in the first wave in 2020, ...
The truth is that things have clearly gone very, very wrong with our vaccination strategy and nobody in the Government of India seems ready to acknowledge this ...
Eight miners have been rescued and 21 remain trapped in a coal mine that flooded in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, state-backed ...
Eight miners have been rescued and 21 remain trapped in a coal mine that flooded in northwest China's Xinjiang region, Chinese state news agency Xinhua ...
Twelve of the 21 people trapped in a flooded coal mine in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Saturday were located on Sunday morning ...
Nineteen people have been sentenced to death in Myanmar for killing an associate of an army captain, the military-owned Myawaddy TV station said on Friday ...
Myanmar security forces killed at least 82 people during anti-coup protests in the town of Bago on Friday, according to the Assistance Association for Political ...
Myanmar's military junta's deadly crackdown on protesters continues with reports emerging Saturday of more than 80 killed in the latest round of violence.
More than 600 people, including dozens of children, have been killed by Myanmar security forces since the February 1 military coup, according to Assistance ...
LONDON (AP) — As many as 60 countries, including some of the world's poorest, might be stalled at the first shots of their coronavirus vaccinations because ...
Nearly all deliveries through the global program intended to help the world's poorest countries are blocked until as late as June. LORI HINNANT and MARIA ...
WHO Director-General Tedros Addhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that the world is currently experiencing a "shocking imbalance" in the distribution of.
MALANG, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake on Indonesia's main island of Java killed eight people, including a woman whose motorcycle was hit by falling ...
At least eight people are dead after a strong earthquake rattled Indonesia's main island of Java. At least two other people were seriously injured, according to a ...
At least eight people were killed after a 6.0 magnitude quake struck off the coast of Indonesia's main Java island on Saturday, as the country reels from a cyclone ...
This was the second deadly disaster to hit Indonesia this week, after Tropical Cyclone Seroja caused a severe downpour Sunday that killed at least 174 people ...
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off Indonesia's Java island on Saturday, killing seven people, severely wounding two and damaging hundreds of buildings in ...
NEW DELHI—Hospitals in the middle of some hot spots in India are running out of vaccines as infections have skyrocketed, triggering a rush to get inoculated.
CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - China's will likely have produced 3 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of the year, a National Health Commission ...
Tropical cyclone Seroja strengthened off Western Australia on Sunday, with emergency services opening shelters in preparation for high winds and coastal ...
Tropical Cyclone Seroja will likely make landfall in Western Australia late Sunday as a second storm, ex-cyclone Odette, rakes coastal areas with high winds ...
Saudi Arabia executed three soldiers Saturday it accused of committing “high treason,” without elaborating on which enemy the kingdom believed the men aided ...
Saudi Arabia has executed three soldiers convicted of “high treason” and “cooperating with the enemy”, with a statement from the kingdom's defence ministry ...
RIYADH (AFP) — Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed three soldiers for “high treason,” the defense ministry said, accusing them of colluding with an unspecified ...
The Saudi-led military coalition battling Yemen's Houthi movement intercepted and destroyed drones launched by the Iran-aligned group towards Khamis ...
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed three soldiers for “high treason”, the defence ministry said. The soldiers were found guilty of “the crime of high ...
Prince Philip, the irascible and tough-minded husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wife in a role that both defined ...
Prince Philip, the irascible and tough-minded husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wife in a role that both defined ...
Prince Philip, the Greek-born consort to Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest sitting monarch, has died at the age of 99. In a statement released to the media and ...
Russia reported the fewest deaths from Covid-19 in two weeks, though the government is keeping a close eye on how the virus will respond to warmer spring ...
Last year's winner of Mrs. World, a beauty pageant for married women, said she would return her crown after she snatched one off the head of the 2021 winner ...
Mrs. World Caroline Jurie surrendered her crown in a recorded statement addressing her onstage incident with Mrs. Sri Lanka World winner Pushpika De Silva.
Mrs. World Caroline Jurie was arrested for grabbing the crown off of Mrs. Sri Lanka's head on stage, moments after the woman had won the title. Jurie, along with ...
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition has drafted legislation that would shift the power to impose COVID-19 restrictions to the federal ...
Thailand plans to install 10000 field-hospital beds in Bangkok, a health official said on Saturday, as the country strains to cope with a third wave of COVID-19 ...
A growing outbreak in Thailand, where local Covid-19 cases hit a new daily record on Sunday, threatens to undermine the nation's plan to welcome back ...
For a couple of weeks prior to the flop that will be this year's Songkran holiday, the stage truly looked set for the triumphant return of domestic tourism after the ...
Every afternoon at around three, Jordanians angry with how bad their lives have become call Rainbow Street, a drive-time radio show in Amman, and complain ...
Jordanians were blindsided on April 3 with news of an alleged coup plot involving King Abdullah's half-brother and former crown prince, Hamzah. A Washington ...
Peruvians were preparing to head to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election marked by uncertainty due to widespread public apathy, following decades of ...
One day before it holds presidential and congressional elections, Peru on Saturday marked a second daily record death rate from the coronavirus pandemic that ...
LIMA - Some 25 million Peruvians are set to turn out Sunday to vote for a new president amid the country's deadliest week of the coronavirus pandemic and a ...
European Council President Charles Michel is suffering from bad nights due to his embarrassment over a seating arrangement incident at a meeting in Ankara ...
The seating snafu during the visit of prominent European Union politicians to Turkey was due to the bad relations between European Council head Charles...
European Council President Charles Michel said he hasn't slept well after female EU Commissioner Ursula Von der Leyen was left without a seat at a meeting ...
European Council President Charles Michel said he risked creating a more serious diplomatic incident if he had reacted when European Commission President ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt and Sudan on Saturday rejected an Ethiopian proposal to share data on the operations of its giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile ...
Senior leader of the Houthis in Yemen Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi on Friday proposed a five-term initiative to mend the rift between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt ...
CAIRO – 10 April 2021: Egypt rejects an Ethiopian invitation for Egypt and Sudan to nominate operators for data exchange before the second filling of the grand ...
Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas is considering making a political speech in which he will stress his commitment to Israel, in order to ease the path toward his ...
A truly dismal saga is playing out in Jerusalem District Court. Not just as regards Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but also relating to parts of Israel's media ...
The bodies of twelve people – assumed to be foreigners – have been found beheaded in Mozambique's northern town of Palma, following last month's attack ...
Sir, – With reference to your recent editorial on Mozambique (“The Irish Times view on attacks in Mozambique: terrorism's long reach”, Opinion & Analysis, April ...
Cuba is "betting it safe" with the later development of their own Covid-19 vaccines and encouraged by what they're seeing in late stage and experimental trials.
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Several thousand people blocked traffic in front of the Serbian parliament on Saturday in a protest against lack of government action to ...
Paris police fined over 100 diners late Friday at an underground restaurant flouting coronavirus restrictions and arrested its organiser, after a week of allegations ...
Authorities in Paris put an end to a gathering of more than 110 diners at an underground restaurant in defiance of coronavirus restrictions, authorities said on ...
Paris police fined over 100 diners late Friday at an underground restaurant flouting coronavirus restrictions and arrested its organiser, after a week of allegations ...
PARIS (Reuters) - More than 110 people dining at a clandestine restaurant were fined late on Friday for violating a COVID-19 lockdown, Paris police said, days ...
(Reuters) - Iran imposed a 10-day lockdown across most of the country on Saturday to curb the spread of a fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, state media ...
Iran on Saturday began a 10-day lockdown amid a fourth wave of coronavirus infections, state TV reported, a worrisome trend after more than a year of the ...
President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said the main reason for the emergence of the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic was the British variant of the ...
Iran on Saturday began enforcing tightened COVID restrictions nationwide as the number of coronavirus cases surged.Driving the news: The country on Friday ...
The United Arab Emirates has not proven that Princess Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, the missing daughter of Dubai's ruler, is alive, the United Nations has ...
A spokeswoman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced Friday that the UAE has not provided evidence ...
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday it has asked the UAE for "proof of life" for the Princess, but did not receive ...
The United Nations human rights office has asked the United Arab Emirates for “proof of life” for Sheikha Latifa, one of the daughters of the ruler of Dubai, but ...
Canada's third wave of the pandemic is now more serious than the previous two, as hospitalizations and critical care admissions spike and the vaccine rollout is ...
Ottawa (AFP). Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday called on Canada's provinces to tighten public health measures as an accelerating vaccination program ...
Rio de Janeiro's iconic and towering "Christ the Redeemer" has met its vertical match: an even taller Jesus statue that's nearing complete a half-hour west in ...
Encantado (Brazil) (AFP). A giant new statue of Christ being constructed in southern Brazil will rise even higher than the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue that ...
A giant new statue of Christ being constructed in southern Brazil will rise even higher than the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue that overlooks Rio de Janeiro.
PARIS (Reuters) - France will lengthen the period between the first and second shots of mRNA anti-COVID vaccines to six weeks from four weeks as of April 14 ...
