Texas remained in the frigid grip of winter storms on Wednesday as a fresh arctic blast deepened an electricity supply crisis that has forced millions to endure days without power and heat. More than 100...

Life expectancy in the US fell by a full year in the first half of 2020, a change experts say was fuelled by the growing coronavirus pandemic. The life expectancy for the entire population dropped...

The United Nations has allocated $15 million (N5.8 billion) to fight the fresh Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock...

Police in Myanmar filed a new charge against ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said Tuesday. The new charge has come in the face of increased nationwide protests by pro-democracy groups who want...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supporting Kurdish armed groups that Ankara says executed 13 kidnapped Turks in northern Iraq, adding a US statement of condemnation...

China last year overtook the United States as the EU’s biggest trading partner, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said on Monday. The EU’s trade with the United States dropped significantly...

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma did not show up on Monday at an inquiry into alleged corruption during his time in office. The country’s top court had earlier ordered Zuma to appear...

Syria’s army said on Monday the country’s air defences intercepted “Israeli aggression” over the capital, Damascus, in the latest stepped-up bombing of alleged Iranian targets inside the country...

Guinea has declared an Ebola epidemic after three people died and four others became ill in the country’s southeast. The seven people fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding after attending a...

Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on protesters Sunday, as demonstrations against military rule in the country enter their second week. There was no immediate confirmation of a death toll and no comment...

Former US President Donald Trump was acquitted by the country’s Senate on Saturday in an impeachment trial for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Trump was the first US president...

Ukraine’s parliament on Friday approved a bill intended to speed up the approval of COVID-19 vaccines, which also bans the approval of vaccines made in Russia. The government has said it expects...

AstraZeneca, the British maker of a Covid vaccine with Oxford University, said Thursday its 2020 net profit more than doubled to $3.2 billion thanks to strong sales growth of cancer drugs. Profit after...

DR Congo on Sunday announced a “resurgence” of Ebola in the country’s troubled east after a woman died of the disease, just three months after authorities declared the end of a previous epidemic. “We...

South Africa suspended its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 on Sunday after a new study revealed that the AstraZeneca vaccine is less effective against a variant of the virus found in the country. The...

Jeff Bezos said Tuesday that he will step down as chief executive of Amazon, leaving the helm of the company he founded 27 years ago. Bezos will transition to the role of executive chair in the third quarter...

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6 percent effective against symptomatic Covid-19, according to results published Tuesday. Sputnik V — named after the Soviet-era satellite — was approved in...

Lawyers for Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine filed a challenge in the Supreme Court on Monday against President Yoweri Museveni’s victory in last month’s election, claiming the poll was...

South Africa on Monday received its first batch of Covid-19 vaccine. This is according to an official post on its Twitter handle. The 1 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses produced by the Serum Institute...

Myanmar’s powerful military has taken control of the country in a coup and declared a state of emergency, following the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior government leaders in early...