Qatar’s ruler received an invitation from Saudi Arabia’s king to attend next month’s Gulf Cooperation Council summit, which may help to ease a dispute that shattered re
In the final World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 press conference of the year, on Monday, senior officials warned that the virus is "not necessarily the big one", and that there is a real ch
The rivalry between China’s top online learning apps has become even more intense this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest company to score a significant funding round is Zuoyebang
The White House at night in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 11, 2020. /Getty Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's opini
FILE PHOTO: Quarantined passengers exercise on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, February 15, 2020. /AP Japan will halt all new non-resident foreign arrivals com
The trial is one of a number of efforts to fight the disease, which has killed more than 70,000 people in the UK.
The earliest sign that candidate Joe Biden would veer leftward and cave before his party’s liberal wing was his abrupt flip-flop on the Hyde Amendment. That provision i
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal on Monday upheld the constitutionality of the face mask ban that Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Car
India reassured Bangladesh it will prioritize the supply of Covid-19 shots to its South Asian neighbor, part of its vaccine outreach to counter China’s rising influence
Minister for Health in Kenya, Mutahi Kagwe. /VCG Kenya's health ministry on Thursday confirmed 552 new cases of COVID-19 from 7,013 samples tested in the last 24 hours, bringing the number of
The service, which is popular with amateur pornographic models, is challenging the UK's tax authority in court over unpaid VAT.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday sent orders to Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other internet giants demanding troves of information about their data collection, ad practi
A volunteer is administered the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, in Oxford, England. /AP New results on a possible COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford University an
Some of those involved in the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist last month have been arrested, an adviser to the Iranian parliament speaker said on Tuesday,
Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has reached an agreement with Uber to buy the ride-hailing firm’s self-driving unit in a complex deal that
The state of California has now expanded access of its CA Notify app to all in the state, after originally deploying the app in a pilot program at UC Berkeley in November, which later expanded to othe
Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans. /CFP Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans will not play under time restrictions in the 2020-21 season, the 19-year-old rookie revealed on Su