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LONDON (Reuters) - British health officials are investigating a COVID-19 variant originating in India but as yet they do not have enough evidence to classify it is as a variant of concern, Susan Hopki...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Several people were hurt in Egypt after eight train carriages derailed in Qalioubia province north of Cairo on Sunday, the province's verified page on Facebook said. Twenty ambulance...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Vaccination against COVID-19 is a requirement to perform the Umra pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi state TV said on Sunday, citing a government official. Umra is a shorter version of the a...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, delivering his Sunday address to a live audience for the first time in more than a month, called for a lowering of tensions in eastern Ukraine...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia began setting up thousands of hospital beds in two wedding party halls on Sunday to cope with an influx of COVID-19 patients in a country that up until recently had lar...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A decision on whether to resume use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine could come as soon as Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sund...

(Reuters) - Bitcoin dropped 11.1% to $53,356.39 on Sunday, losing $6,675.9 from its previous close. Bitcoin, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is down 17.8% from the year's high of $6...

By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Police in Pakistan said a hardline Islamist group had taken six security personnel hostage at its headquarters in Lahore on Sunday after a week of viol...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will not let down its Afghan staff as the international military mission in the country winds down after nearly two decades of war, Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbau...

ZURICH (Reuters) - A modified version of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine tailored to combat a coronavirus variant first documented in South Africa could be ready by the end of 2021, an AstraZeneca offi...