The US CDC has advised Americans against traveling to France, Jordan, Portugal, and Tanzania, citing the emergence of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus.  

Future pandemics could be even more lethal than COVID-19, one of the creators of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine said.

Belgian police resort to the use of teargas and water cannon to suppress protests against new COVID-19 restrictions in Brussels.

Police fired teargas and used water cannons to disperse protesters as demonstration over government-imposed COVID-19 restrictions turned violent in Brussels.

A surge in the number of people seeking vaccines as well as staff shortages are squeezing drugstores across the United States.

In its latest annual report, Italy’s Centre for Social Studies and Policies, CENSIS, has found that some two million Italian families were in absolute poverty in 2020, a rise of more than 100% compared with 2010.

The United States has said there is no timetable for lifting travel restrictions on southern African countries to contain the spread of the new variant of COVID-19.

US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admit that high inflation has increased higher and lingered much longer than they expected.

People in Greece, aged 60 and over, are facing a €100 fine if they refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by mid January.

Just as the world was hopeful about a return to normalcy almost two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, a new potentially dangerous variant of the novel coronavirus has emerged. Dubbed Omicron, the variant is giving people and the global markets a cause for concern.