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A woman receives a booster shot of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a third dose vaccination campaign at a South Tangerang Regional General Hospital in Tangerang, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Indonesia starts COVID boosters for elderly, others at risk

The government hopes to provide 21 million booster shots in January to people who received their second jabs at least...

12 Jan 2022 10:54 AM IST

Maya Goode, a COVID-19 technician, performs a test on Jessica Sanchez outside Asthenis Pharmacy in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in US and Britain

At the same time, experts warn that much is still uncertain about how the next phase of the pandemic might unfold

12 Jan 2022 10:41 AM IST

A worker wearing protective equipment stands inside a temporary COVID-19 testing laboratory in northern Chinas Tianjin Municipality. (Photo: AP)

Omicron quickly overtaking Delta globally in terms of circulation: WHO

Omicron is becoming the dominant variant that is being detected

12 Jan 2022 10:05 AM IST

Angelou, who delivered the poem at former President Bill Clintons first inauguration, died in 2014. (AFP photo)

Poet Maya Angelou becomes first Black woman to appear on US coin

The quarter has for the last 90 years shown the nation's first president, George Washington, on one side and an eagle on...

11 Jan 2022 4:41 PM IST

$People walk past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on January 11, 2022, after North Korea fired a \suspected ballistic missile\ into the sea, South Koreas military said, less than a week after Pyongyang reported testing a hypersonic missile. (Anthony WALLACE / AFP)$ World

North Korea fires second suspected missile in less than a week

The early-morning launch came as the UN Security Council met to discuss last week's test of what Pyongyang called a...

11 Jan 2022 10:58 AM IST

A nurse prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children for distribution. (Photo: AFP)

Pfizer CEO says Omicron-targeted vaccine to be ready by March

Bourla said Pfizer could be ready to file for U.S. regulatory approval for a redesigned vaccine and launch it as soon as...

11 Jan 2022 10:31 AM IST

Aung San Suu Kyi (AFP file photo)

Myanmar's Suu Kyi convicted on new charges, jailed for four years

Suu Kyi was found guilty of two charges related to illegally importing and owning walkie-talkies and one of breaking...

10 Jan 2022 11:03 AM IST

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) with GCC Secretary General Nayef bin Falah Al-Hajraf. (File photo/Chinese Foreign Ministry)

Gulf ministers visit China amid energy fears

Recent unrest in oil and gas-rich Kazakhstan has raised concerns in China, which has long invested heavily in Kazakh's...

10 Jan 2022 10:21 AM IST

Russia would be banned for four years from the Olympic and Paralympic Summer and Winter Games. That rules an official Russian team out of Tokyo 2020 and the Beijing Winter Olympics of 2022. (Photo: AFP)

Omicron scare in China's Tianjin close to Beijing ahead of Winter...

Thousands of people commute between Tianjin and Beijing as it takes hardly 30 minutes by the high-speed train

9 Jan 2022 4:34 PM IST

Women wearing face masks to protect from coronavirus, play with a dog in the medieval core in central Nicosia, Cyprus. (Photo: PTI)

New coronavirus variant 'Deltacron' emerges in Cyprus

In total, 10 of the mutations from Omicron were found in the 25 samples taken in Cyprus

9 Jan 2022 2:33 PM IST

A medical worker administers a shot of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to a man, at makeshift vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia. (Photo: AP)

Vaccine skeptics slammed across Europe as Omicron rages

Amid a seemingly unstoppable surge in infections, officials are focusing restrictions on unvaccinated people

9 Jan 2022 1:11 PM IST

A doctor loads a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mobile vaccination clinic in Worcester, Massachusetts (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

US urges COVID boosters starting at age 12 to fight Omicron

Studies show a booster dose at least temporarily revs up antibodies to levels that offer the best chance at avoiding...

6 Jan 2022 12:43 PM IST