Members of the European Parliament debate the dire health and economic consequences resulting from the resurgence of COVID-19 across the 27-country EU.

A new poll shows a vast majority of Americans Biden's ban on travel imposed on eight countries in southern Africa, which the United Nations has denounced as “travel apartheid.”

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says arrogant powers delight in the suffering of the Iranian nation. 

A leading virus expert has warned that 32,000 people who are expecting to celebrate Christmas and New year will have died of Covid-19 before then.

The British government has come under criticism for launching Plan B coronavirus restrictions, with some critics accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of trying to “save his own skin” by announcing the curbs as a diversion from the week’s political scandals.

Boris Johnson is being accused of lying after senior No. 10 officials were filmed joking about a lockdown Christmas party that Downing Street insists did not happen.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global economy hard over the past two years. But a new report suggests that the arms industry is thriving like never before.

South Africa's economy shrank for the first time in a year in the third quarter as the country was hit by riots and tighter COVID restrictions, official statistics showed Tuesday.

As the world is arriving upon the 2-year mark for the ongoing global COVID-19 crisis, experts and health officials predict that the pandemic will improve significantly by sometime next year. Meanwhile, the new COVID variant Omicron has spread rapidly, to the alarm of researchers worldwide.

Experts say inoculation campaigns in some African nations face serious challenges amid shortages of funds, medical staff and equipment.