According to a news statement from the Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunization (GAVI), the organization has sought an additional $5.2 billion to develop and distribute at least 600 million additional doses of coronavirus vaccines. GAVI needs at least $5.2 billion in additional funding for...

The US Department of Transportation has chastised China for canceling flights from US cities owing to passengers ill with the coronavirus, and has warned action. "China's activities are in violation of the air transport agreement between the United States and China. We are in discussions with the...

According to a report by the news agency Reuters, the United States reported at least 1.13 million new coronavirus infections on Monday, which was the largest daily total of any country in the world. This also indicated that the spread of the pandemic caused by the highly contagious Omicron variant...

The global food price index for 2021 rose by 27.6 points in annual terms to 125.7 points, the highest since 2011, when the index was 131.9 points, with the index for December slightly down in November, according to a press release from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The world price...

Europe is getting back into shape, after a century of turmoil and strategic upheavals. It went from the world’s power-house to post-war rebuilding under the shadow of the United States, a nation which barely had an army a century before. Today, national armies are re-built and powerful, but the...

As the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus seemingly gets out of control, keeping employees at home and overloading testing centres, infections have reached record highs in the United States, parts of Europe, and Australia.   The frequently mutating coronavirus is...

Despite another spike in daily infections, Australia's first recorded death from the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 was announced on Monday. However, regulators resisted implementing new restrictions, claiming that hospitalization rates remained low.    The death of the man, who was in...

The global spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continued unabated, prompting health experts to caution that the fight top end the infections caused by the Covid-19 variant is still long way away.   On the other hand however, two pharma companies have claimed that...

On Thursday, President Joe Biden signed a bill aimed at combating human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region.   The law prohibits imports from Xinjiang and punishes those who are involved in forced labour in the province. The proposal is Washington's latest attempt to alleviate...