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A top European Union official is declaring the bloc’s COVID-19 vaccination drive a success after its much-criticized slow start. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU’s executive Commission, proclaimed
During the Cold War, Russia’s Nagurskoye airbase was little more than a runway, a weather station and a communications outpost in the Franz Josef Land archipelago. It was a remote and
President Joe Biden expressed support for a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he stopped short of demanding
A report by the International Energy Agency says immediate action is needed to reshape the world’s energy sector in order to meet ambitious climate goals by 2050, including ending investments
U.N. Security Council diplomats and Muslim foreign ministers convened emergency weekend meetings to demand a stop to civilian bloodshed as Israeli warplanes carried out the deadliest single attacks in nearly
China yesterday renewed calls for the U.S. to play a constructive role in ending the conflict in Gaza and stop blocking efforts at the United Nations to demand an end
Pubs and restaurants across much of the U.K. opened for indoor service for the first time since early January yesterday, even as the prime minister urged people to be cautious
Three car bombs have exploded in Dublin, killing 23 people and injuring more than 100 others during rush hour. Five more people died and another 20 were hurt in a blast
The 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation opened an emergency meeting yesterday over the heavy fighting between Israel and the Gaza Strip’s militant Hamas rulers, the first major move among Mideast
French riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons Saturday in Paris as protesters supporting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip defied a ban on marching in the French capital. Thousands
Police are reaching out to villagers in northern India to investigate the recovery of bodies buried in shallow sand graves or washing up on the Ganges River banks, prompting speculation
The Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies have signed a security pact in the Polish capital, Warsaw, after a three-day conference. Announcements in Warsaw and Moscow said the Soviet Prime
Muslims celebrated Eid al-Fitr in a subdued mood for a second year yesterday as the COVID-19 pandemic again forced mosque closings and family separations on the holiday marking the end
An equipment failure caused an outage at a power plant in southern Taiwan yesterday, triggering rolling blackouts across the island affecting millions of people. The outage in Kaohsiung trapped at least
A Swiss climber and an American have died on Mount Everest in the season’s first casualties on the world’s highest mountain, expedition organizers said yesterday. The Swiss climber, Abdul Waraich, 41,
The Pope has been shot four times as he blessed the crowds in St Peter’s Square in Rome. Surgeons have performed a five-hour operation and say they hope he will make
Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes early yesterday as the most severe outbreak of violence since the 2014 war took on many hallmarks of
The German government has agreed to let travelers who have been vaccinated or recovered from a COVID-19 infection avoid testing and quarantine when entering the country, unless they’ve come from
While the U.S. president is calling for suspending patents on COVID-19 vaccines, experts at UNESCO are quietly working on a more ambitious plan: a new global system for sharing scientific
Ford has confirmed that car production at its Dagenham plant in Essex is to end after more than 70 years. In total, it will mean the loss of around 3,000 jobs
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