The military in Chad has claimed victory against northern rebels following weeks of fighting. The conflict against Libya-based rebels threw the country into a crisis when President Idriss Déby died

Remnants of China’s biggest rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, with most of its components destroyed upon re-entry into the atmosphere, ending days of speculation over where the

A blast close to a secondary school in the Afghan capital Kabul has left at least 30 people dead and dozens more injured, officials have said. The bombing, apparently aimed

To fight the pandemic at home, the United States gave its own vaccine manufacturers priority access to American-made materials needed to make the shots. As a result, the US government

The World Health Organization has approved the emergency use of a Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by China’s Sinopharm. Friday’s decision by a WHO technical advisory group, a first for a Chinese

JPMorgan Chase & Co. was warned by its compliance team over the “great risk” of corruption just days before it made the last of three transfers that totaled $875 million

With coronavirus cases still surging to record levels, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing growing pressure to impose a harsh nationwide lockdown amid a debate whether restrictions imposed by

The US has thrown its support behind an initiative at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to waive intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines. India and South Africa proposed the move,

Facebook Inc’s oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company’s suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump but said the indefinite suspension was wrong, in a much-awaited verdict that may signal

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin asked a judge on Tuesday for a new trial, court records showed, two weeks after he was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in

A full investigation will be carried out into the causes of an overpass collapse that killed at least 23 people when one of Mexico City’s iconic orange metro trains plunged onto a

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a midnight deadline on Tuesday to put together a new coalition government — or he may be looking at the possibility of leading

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates said on Monday that they have decided to divorce, unnerving the philanthropic world. “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on

The European Union has proposed easing restrictions on travel to the 27-member bloc and overseas tourists as vaccination campaigns keep gathering speed. Travel to the EU is currently extremely limited

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has failed to win a key state in elections held amid record Covid-19 deaths and cases. The BJP targeted West Bengal heavily during campaigning

Concerned by the new wave of Covid-19 in some parts of the world, Nigeria’s federal government will ban passengers who have visited India, Brazil and Turkey in the previous 14

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a full investigation into the deadly stampede at a Jewish religious festival in the town of Mount Meron, where he was booed by

At least 44 people were crushed to death at an over-crowded religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “heavy

The Rivers State Government in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria has imposed a curfew on the 23 Local Government Areas of the State with effect from Thursday over possibilities of deadly