Early in the pandemic, Britain had recommended against vaccines for pregnant women, citing a lack of research on side effects.…
Canada inched ahead of the United States on new daily coronavirus cases per capita and officials warned that worse is to come.…
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has surged to nearly 140 million as dangerous virus variants spread and countries race to provide enough vaccines.…
Mr. Castro announced that he will step down and pass on control of the party to Cuba’s younger generation. His departure will leave Cuba without a Castro at its helm for the first time in 60 years.…
How a series of fateful choices and lofty ambitions put Taliban defeat at odds with American victory.…
Thousands of doses have gone to waste in Malawi and South Sudan.…
“How can people in all conscience jump the line?” Prime Minister Mario Draghi said. “Knowing that they leave exposed a person who is over 75 to a risk, a concrete risk of dying, or a fragile person?”…
The prince’s death is the monarchy’s dress rehearsal for the far more consequential passing of the queen, a reckoning that seems likely to reverberate in British history.…
The Russian government announced the expulsion of 10 diplomats and a travel ban for some U.S. officials in a response to sanctions.…
Russia’s massing of tanks and infantry along its southwestern border with Ukraine was meant to send a message, analysts say.…
She was one of the “Gang of Four” who left Labour to start the more centrist Social Democratic Party in 1981, altering the country’s political landscape.…
The organizers of at least five British awards received emails asking them to transfer prize money to a PayPal account. One of them paid out.…
A highly purified form of uranium is needed to make an atomic bomb, but the main point of Tehran’s action may be to give it leverage in nuclear talks.…
Khaleel Seivwright built himself a wooden shanty while living on a West Coast commune. Then he started building similar lodgings for homeless people in Toronto to survive the winter.…
A new book about the Pech Valley in Afghanistan’s violent east offers poignant lessons as the Biden administration announces plans to withdraw all troops.…
The driver of a crane truck that slid down an embankment — into the path of an oncoming express train — faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted.…
The punishments over an unauthorized peaceful protest point to what critics say is the shrinking space for dissent in Hong Kong.…
“There are vaccines like polio where one dose is enough, and there are vaccines like flu that you need every year, ” Pfizer’s chief said. “The Covid virus looks more like the influenza virus than the polio virus.”…
Paraguay desperately needs Covid-19 vaccines, which China could supply. That has led the South American nation to reconsider its relationship with Taiwan, which precludes it from dealing with Beijing.…
Readers reflect on the country’s many different accents.…
U.S. sanctions on Russia.…
Despite a promise to leave, Eritrea’s troops remain in northern Ethiopia, aiding the Ethiopian government campaign there, a senior U.N. official told the Security Council.…
The prince approved plans for his own funeral and, despite coronavirus restrictions, the ceremony will reflect his wishes, officials say.…
The curbs on U.S. banks’ purchases of some bonds apply to a small portion of the market but could signal a sharper aim at Russia’s access to global capital.…
Pakistan’s military stayed allied to both the Americans and Taliban. But now the country may face intensified extremism at home as a result of a perceived Taliban victory.…