As omicron variant alarm spreads, countries mull a radical ‘pandemic treaty’ | Analysis
Less than a week after the new variant was reported to the World Health Organization, global leaders met Monday to discuss creating an international agreement...
Why is the world protesting so much? A new study claims to have some answers.
In the United States alone, recent years have seen huge protests from Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter to the Tea Party and Stop...
Nearly 5 million people worldwide have died of COVID since the pandemic’s start
COVID and the virus that causes it, the coronavirus, is on the brink of killing at least 5 million people worldwide since late 2019. Nearly...
In secret vaccine contracts with nations, Pfizer took hard line in push for profit, report says
A new report by Public Citizen, a consumer rights group that gained access to leaked, unredacted Pfizer contracts, sheds light on how the company uses...
WHO names new group to investigate origins of COVID-19 and future outbreaks
The renewed impetus to investigate the pandemic's origins comes more than six months after a joint WHO-China mission on the subject became mired in controversy...
Brazil’s unvaccinated Bolsonaro appears to break U.N. vaccine ‘honor system’ during address
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the first to speak at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, appears to have broken U.N. rules that asked for all...
As world leaders gather in New York for U.N. General Assembly, a vaccine mandate creates confusion and dissent
The city has requested that heads of state and diplomats prove they are fully vaccinated before entering the U.N. hall for the opening of the...
People around the world increasingly see climate change as a personal threat, new poll finds
Nearly three-quarters of residents of countries with some of the world's most advanced economies worry that climate change will one day create suffering in their...
The Taliban bring back the feared ministry of 'vice and virtue'
In an English-language list of new appointees distributed by the Taliban, the Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice was the only name...