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Britain will allow international travel to resume from May 17 after months of banning most trips abroad, but nearly all major destinations were left off its list of countries open for quarantinefree holidays.

A blaze on Friday at a small laboratory in central Italy that treats marijuana so it can be used medically left a man dead, three injured survivors and a woman missing, Italian firefighters said.

The African bureau of the UN agency said the continent had to catch up with the rest of the world in terms of vaccine rollouts.

The pharmaceutical industry says it wont help curb the outbreak any time soon and will hurt innovation.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a wideranging list of new voting restrictions into law Thursday, staging a misleading, madeforTV ceremony meant to tout his credentials on a top priority for the Republican Party's conservative base.

The speaker of parliament in Maldives, former President Mohamed Nasheed, was being treated for shrapnel wounds and in stable condition after a blast outside his family home on Thursday, a spokesman for his governing Maldivian Democratic Party said.

West Virginias former health commissioner described a culture of doctors for years writing more opioid prescriptions for their patients than necessary in a landmark trial between local governments that accuse three large drug distributors of fueling the U...

Booking Holdings Inc welcomed a rebound in travel demand in the United States and Britain as more people planned holidays after getting vaccinated, but Asia remained on the back foot as its health crisis worsened.

Paulo Gustavo, a popular comedian whose character Dona Herminia dealt with everyday family and LGTBQ issues in some of Brazil's biggestbox office movies and television shows, died of COVID19, sparking an outpouring of grief across a country polarized by t...

A police officer in Virginia has been indicted on a murder charge in the shooting death of a man in a vehicle near a motel, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

The conservative leader of Spain's Madrid region, who for months defied the leftist central government by keeping bars and shops open during the COVID19 pandemic, won a regional election on Tuesday.

The public has gotten a glimpse inside President Joe Biden's visit last week with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.

One of the jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd on Monday defended his participation in a protest last summer in Washington, D.C., following online speculation about his motives for serving on the jury and whether it might be...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize Pfizer's COVID19 vaccine for young adults age 12 and older by next week, according to a federal official and a person familiar with the process, setting up shots for many before the beginning...

Four Katyusha rockets hit an Iraqi military base that houses U.S. contractors Monday without causing any casualties, Iraq's military said in a statement.

Mexico said Friday it will try to regain U.S. certification for shrimp exports, after the country lost its registration because of inadequate protections for sea turtles.