The International Monetary Fund wants El Salvador to drop the highly volatile cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender and strictly regulate the electronic wallet the...
Hong Kong expanded a partial lockdown and tightened pandemic restrictions after more than 200 cases of Covid-19 were discovered at a public housing estate.
Hong...
Pakistani authorities launched this year’s first nationwide anti-polio campaign even as coronavirus infections surge.
About 150,000 health workers are taking part in the five-day, anti-polio...
Chinese authorities lifted a monthlong lockdown on the northern city of Xi’an and its 13 million residents as infections subside ahead of the opening...
Thousands of people in capital cities across Europe protested on Saturday against vaccine passports and other requirements governments have imposed in the hope of...
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has been forced to postpone her own wedding due to the introduction of new Covid-19 restrictions.
Ms Ardern said...
Israel’s Cabinet has approved a state investigation into the purchase of submarines and other warships from Germany, a case that has embroiled close confidants...
