The Union Minister for Health Dr. Thet Khaing Win together with the director-generals and responsible officials held a coordination meeting on COVID-19 vaccination in 2022 at 9:30 a.m. on December 23 via Zoom...
A Black Santa visited Vila Cruzeiro favela in Rio arriving by helicopter for a food distribution event. The NGO hosting the event, Unified Favelas Central (CUFA), has been working in Brazil's...
Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt on Friday announced plans to shorten the gap between second coronavirus vaccine doses and boosters from five months to four starting Jan. 4 and down to three beginning Jan. 31...
A shooting at a suburban Chicago mall full of Christmas shoppers left four people injured Thursday, police said. The incident at Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook began with two males involved in a shootout in a...
Japan announced on Friday that it decided not to send a government delegation to the Beijing Winter Games.
Instead, Japan Olympic Committee President Yasuhiro Yamashita and Seiko Hashimoto, President of the...
South Korea says it will grant a special pardon to former President Park Geun-hye, who is serving a lengthy prison term for a series of corruption charges. The Justice Ministry said Friday that Park's pardon...
Ukraine on Thursday firmly denied suggestions by Russian President Vladimir Putin that it was preparing an offensive against rebels in the east to reunite the country.
The comments came after Putin claimed that...
Police in San Antonio are searching for a 3-year-old girl who was last seen Monday evening at an apartment complex playground. Authorities don't yet know whether the child wandered away from the...
More than 450 people have been rescued in five different operations in the southern Mediterranean sea, Doctors Without Borders said Thursday.
The NGO said 458 rescued people are now on board of their ship....
Pope Francis urged Vatican cardinals, bishops and bureaucrats Thursday to embrace humility this Christmas season, saying their pride, self-interest and the "glitter of our armor" was perverting their...