The Covid-19 Omicron variant BA.5 is surging in South Korea, with new daily cases doubling to 40,000 per day this week.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says global cases of COVID-19 have increased by nearly 30 percent during the past two weeks.

One million Muslim pilgrims have converged on Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca for the largest Hajj since the coronavirus pandemic severely curtailed access to one of Islam’s pillars.

A recent study has labeled the US Mexican border as the world’s ‘deadliest’ migration land route, underlining the failure of the American migration policies, with record high deaths in a single year.

China's president has said Hong Kong had been “reborn of fire” as he visits the city to mark the 25th anniversary of the former British colony’s return to Beijing’s rule.

Bahram Eynollahi congratulated Ayatollah Khamenei as COVID-19 deaths hit zero.

The United States finds itself in the throes of the fourth wave of coronavirus, according to the official case count, albeit experts say the actual current rate could be 30 times higher than reported.

Travelers were left stranded on Memorial Day weekend that marks the start of the busy summer travel season​​​​​​​ after airlines worldwide canceled more than 7,000 flights.

The inflation rate in Germany has climbed to a new record of 7.9 percent in May, the highest figure in nearly half a century, according to an official estimate.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on countries around the globe to take quick action to contain the spread of monkeypox in non-endemic countries.