Coronavirus News & Updates

By Jan Lopatka BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovaks were voting on Saturday in a parliamentary election closely fought between former leftist prime minister Robert Fico, who has pledged...

By Alvise Armellini and Federico Maccioni MILAN (Reuters) - The city of Milan is forcing buses and lorries to install blind spot sensors in a bid to reduce road casualties among...

By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. Here is a look at how the award works: WHO CAN WIN? According to...

By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. Here are some past winners - and one person who did not but should...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's conservative government is working on a plan to integrate hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to fill worker shortages in agriculture,...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Over the past week 130 world leaders and more than 50 ministers addressed the annual high-level meeting of the United Nations...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's second biggest airport Gatwick implemented a temporary limit on daily flights on Monday because of a shortage of staff in air traffic control caused...

Investing.com-- Gold futures fell Monday, edging away from mid-$1,900 levels, as the dollar hit 10-month highs in response to the Federal Reserve’s warning last week that U.S....

By David Brunnstrom, Trevor Hunnicutt and Kirsty Needham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will host a second summit with Pacific island leaders this week, part of a U.S....

By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) - German direct investment in China eased in the first half of the year albeit remaining close to its record high in 2022 and increasing as a share...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius will not take part at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at German Ramstein U.S. Air Base on Tuesday due to...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China plans to manage monkeypox in the same way it handles infectious diseases such as COVID-19 starting from Sept. 20, health authorities said on Friday, after...

By Cynthia Kim and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - For the first time in nearly four years new staff have been allowed at the Russian embassy in the North Korean capital of...

(Reuters) - Japan will strengthen its support and cooperation with Southeast Asian nations in six areas including transportation infrastructure and maritime patrols, Prime...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. first lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 just days before President Joe Biden, who tested negative for the virus, is due to travel to a...

LONDON (Reuters) - England will bring forward the start of its autumn flu and COVID-19 vaccination programmes as a precautionary step after the identification of highly mutated...

(Reuters) -EU regulators have recommended authorizing an updated COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and its German partner BioNTech which targets the dominant XBB.1.5...

GENEVA (Reuters) -More than 1,300 schools have been totally destroyed in government-held areas of Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion and others have been badly damaged, the U.N....

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN) is facing two London lawsuits, including one from the husband of a woman who died after receiving the Anglo-Swedish...

(Reuters) - The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Friday the first case of COVID-19 variant BA.2.86 had been detected in the country in an individual with no recent travel...

By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) -COVID infections and hospitalizations are on the rise in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Health officials are pointing at the EG.5 "Eris"...

By Alexandra Valencia and Julia Symmes Cobb QUITO (Reuters) -Assassinated Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was honored on Friday at a funeral mass and...

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Leroy Leo (Reuters) -The World Health Organization on Wednesday classified the EG.5 coronavirus strain circulating in the United States and China...

By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -A Scottish lawmaker has been stripped of her seat in Britain's parliament for breaking COVID rules, triggering a by-election that will indicate...

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met the Chinese delegation which visited Pyongyang to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War and vowed to...

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU rights watchdog on Wednesday announced a probe into Europe's deadliest shipwreck in years and whether the bloc's Frontex border...

MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian court on Monday dropped a case against the president of the northern region of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, and 11 other people over their initial...

By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) - When U.S. soldier Travis King sprinted across the border into North Korea from the South this week, he disappeared into a North Korea where...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, grounded by COVID-19 and then shunned in the West since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, returns to international touring next week for...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Thursday imposed a seventh round of sanctions on Myanmar in response to what it said was the escalation of violence and human rights...

(Reuters) - After violence erupted in Myanmar in the wake of the 2021 coup, most high school students in the remote township of Thantlang left their studies and took up arms to...

By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - About 735 million people worldwide faced chronic hunger in 2022, a figure much higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic and which threatens progress...

By Olivier Sorgho (Reuters) - The European Union's population rose for the first time in three years in 2022, boosted by migration into the bloc even as more people died than were...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Athletes from Russia and Belarus will be permitted to compete at the Hangzhou Asian Games to help them earn points to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The...