New York State Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday declared a disaster emergency for the entire state through January 15, 2022 amid a new wave of Covid-19 infections....
US President Joe Biden on Friday confirmed new travel restrictions for foreign travellers from eight countries in southern Africa due to the emergence of the new Omicron coronavirus variant in the region....
Police are responding to a shooting at a shopping mall in the city of Durham, North Carolina in which at least one person was reportedly shot, a Durham Police Department spokesperson told Sputnik....
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday strongly condemned Thursday's deadly terrorist attack on a UN-affiliated convoy in front of a school in Mogadishu, Somalia, said his deputy spokesman....
The pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech on Saturday issued a statement stating that they are not sure whether their vaccines would be able to help in the treatment of the new COVID-19 variant 'Omicron'....
Amid the deteriorating relations between Washington and Beijing, two US lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill earlier this week, which seeks to help Taiwan develop ties with other countries amid China's coercive actions designed to isolate the country....
US health regulators are expected to make public a staff review about the Covid-19 pill molnupiravir from Merck and Co and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP, with an analysis of clinical-trial data for the drug included, according to The Wall Street Journal. ...
US President Joe Biden has announced that the US will impose travel restrictions on eight African countries as a new variant of the coronavirus has been detected on the continent....
UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid sounded an alarm over the new 'worst-ever' super-mutant Covid variant that will make vaccines at least 40 per cent less effective, forcing flights to be banned from South Africa and five other countries, the Daily Mail reported....
Two more "smash-and-grab" robberies hit upscale department stores in California, adding to a series of similar crimes in the US state....
