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LUSAKA, Zambia — There are few nurses in the Zambian capital with the skills and experience of Alex Mulumba, who works in the operating room at a critical care hospital. But he has recently learned,...

Pakistani officials have introduced a series of tough new coronavirus restrictions — including barring anyone not fully vaccinated from entering mosques for prayer — after recording the...

CHICAGO — New coronavirus cases have started to fall nationally, signaling that the omicron-fueled spike that has infected tens of millions of Americans, packed hospitals and shattered records has...

New Zealand announced on Sunday that it would impose its highest level of COVID restrictions across the country at midnight after at least nine cases of the highly transmissible omicron variant were...

SYDNEY — When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted with colossal force at 5:10 p.m. local time Jan. 15, Soane Francis Siua, a Catholic seminary student in Fiji, heard a loud boom and...

The Peruvian government has asked for international support in responding to an oil spill off the coast of Lima that it called the city’s “worst ecological disaster” in recent history, as crude...

Europeans bought more electric cars than diesel in December, a stunning illustration of the growing popularity of battery power and the decline of diesel, which was once the most popular engine option...

LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson may have crossed a political Rubicon in recent days over charges that he lied about Downing Street parties during the pandemic. But whether he is forced out of...

Even if enough people build natural immunity to COVID-19 by catching the highly contagious omicron variant, Dr. Anthony Fauci said it is too soon to say if this will spell an end to the pandemic.On...

A 3-week-old baby has died from COVID-19 in Qatar, the country’s Ministry of Public Health said in a statement Sunday, another fatality in a string of rare infant deaths around the globe from the...

Novak Djokovic’s last-ditch attempt to salvage his hopes of defending his Australian Open title has failed, as judges ruled Sunday that Australia’s immigration minister was within his rights to...

What began as a power struggle between a defiantly unvaccinated tennis star and a prime minister seeking a distraction from his own preelection missteps has turned into something far weightier: a...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday clarified its stance on various kinds of masks, acknowledging that the cloth masks are frequently worn by Americans do not offer as much...

MELBOURNE, Australia — In a court filing Saturday, lawyers for Novak Djokovic said the tennis star had tested positive for the coronavirus in mid-December, and that the Australian government had...