Tens of thousands of protesting farmers marched, rode horses and drove long lines of tractors into India’s capital on Tuesday, breaking through police barricades to storm the historic Red Fort.

Indonesia’s confirmed coronavirus infections since the pandemic began crossed the 1 million mark. Indonesia’s Health Ministry announced that new daily infections rose by 13,094 on Tuesday to bring the country’s

Britain’s unemployment rate hit its highest in nearly five years in the three months to November, when coronavirus cases began to rise for a second time and most of the

Janet Yellen made history on Monday when the Senate confirmed her nomination as secretary of the Treasury by a vote of 84-15. As treasury secretary, Yellen, 74, would occupy a

Several people have been arrested for breaking Covid rules protesting against the culturally sensitive Australia Day holiday. At least five arrests were made in Sydney at a rally attended by

The EU has warned it will tighten rules on exports of Covid vaccines, amid a row with AstraZeneca over a cut in planned supplies to the 27-member bloc. Health Commissioner

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has condemned weekend riots against newly imposed coronavirus restrictions as “criminal violence”. Rioters attacked police and set cars and bikes on fire to protest against

Moderna’s Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company. Early

Sarah Sanders, Donald Trump’s former chief spokeswoman and one of his closest aides, announced Monday she’s running for Arkansas governor. The former White House press secretary, who left the job

Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine, raising the death toll to 10. Eleven others were rescued a day earlier after

President Joe Biden will impose a ban on most non-US citizens entering the country who have recently been in South Africa in a bid to contain the spread of a

Indian and Chinese troops were involved in a “minor face-off” last week in a disputed stretch of their shared border in the eastern Himalayas, the Indian army said on Monday,

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has tested positive for COVID-19, a development that comes as his country registers the highest levels of infections and deaths to date. López Obrador,

The United States has confirmed more than 25 million cases of coronavirus – the most in the world – as newly inaugurated President Joe Biden’s chief of staff accused Donald

The spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says the US Embassy’s statements about the nationwide protests, in which more than 3,500 people reportedly were arrested, interfere in the country’s domestic

New Zealand has reported its first coronavirus case outside of a quarantine facility in more than two months, although there was no immediate evidence the virus was spreading in the

The US has reaffirmed its support for Taiwan following China’s dispatch of warplanes near the island in an apparent attempt to intimidate its democratic government and test the resolve of

Britain is expanding a coronavirus vaccination program that has seen almost 6 million people get the first of two doses — even as the country’s death toll in the pandemic